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A $10 million multidisciplinary brain secrets study launched today could eventually bring big changes to the nation’s courtrooms.
With the help of 25 participating universities, the John D. and Catherine…
Oct 9, 2007 4:18 PM CDT
Relatives expressed relief today after a judge ruled that a retarded North Carolina man who was never tried, yet had been held 14 years in a state mental institution concerning…
Oct 8, 2007 11:34 PM CDT
Attorneys representing triple murderer Joseph Duncan in Idaho have asked for a one-year delay to prepare for his federal death penalty trial.
The case already has been moved from July…
Oct 5, 2007 11:50 AM CDT
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler this week ordered the U.S. not to transfer a detainee in Afghanistan without giving his attorney at least 30 days’ notice.
The ruling, considered a…
Oct 5, 2007 11:16 AM CDT
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have approved a bill that, if enacted, will bring U.S. contractors in Iraq under the jurisdiction of American criminal courts.
That means private contractors, including the…
Oct 5, 2007 10:56 AM CDT
After three days of unsuccessful jury selection, a judge in Nevada has ordered a venue change in the case of a man accused of killing his estranged wife and shooting…
Oct 5, 2007 10:27 AM CDT
Congressional committees are launching investigations, after a New York Times article today revealed that two secret Department of Justice opinions in 2005 endorsed prisoner interrogation techniques some consider tantamount to…
Oct 4, 2007 9:22 PM CDT
Updated: In a ruling that could sound the death knell for Sen. Larry Craig’s career in office, a Minnesota judge has ruled that the Idaho Republican can’t withdraw his guilty…
Oct 4, 2007 6:16 PM CDT
A former prosecutor who was appointed a California state court judge nearly 20 years ago has been removed from the bench for “misconduct” and “gross neglect” of his judicial duties.
…Oct 2, 2007 10:20 PM CDT
Two U.S. Supreme Court justices had a message for the state of Virginia: Slow down the machinery of death.
Justice John Paul Stevens issued a statement questioning Virginia’s rush to…
Oct 2, 2007 11:43 AM CDT
Although he had never met Mychal Bell, a doctor living elsewhere in the state posted the bond the 17-year-old needed to get out of jail and return home to the…
Sep 28, 2007 11:17 PM CDT
If Sen. Larry Craig is lucky, a Minnesota judge, as expected, will refuse to let him revoke his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge.
That’s because a trial over…
Sep 28, 2007 5:11 PM CDT
The prosecution in a controversial case against one of the so-called Jena Six defendants has accepted a Louisiana appellate court ruling that he should be tried as a juvenile.
Mychal…
Sep 27, 2007 12:50 AM CDT
A recent ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal offers a startling view of the hard-hitting office politics at a venerable Toronto law firm.
When attorney Benjamin Moss trudged back…
Sep 26, 2007 9:35 PM CDT
Updated: A mistrial has been declared in the second-degree murder trial of Phil Spector, after the judge polled the jury, who all agreed they were deadlocked.
The foreman said the…
Sep 26, 2007 8:46 PM CDT
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