A lawyer for the state of Vermont told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that a ruling for the defendant in a case on speedy trial rights could lead to…
A federal appeals court has struck down a 2006 federal law providing for indefinite civil commitment of sexually dangerous inmates after their prison terms end.
Fugitive film director Roman Polanski can’t move to have a 1977 statutory rape conviction dismissed based on claimed government misconduct until he turns himself in, a Los Angeles prosecutor contends.
A federal appeals court opinion ordering a new sentence for former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling gives his lawyers another chance to argue for a new trial.
A Florida judge has disqualified the entire Broward State Attorney’s Office from trying a murder case after learning that two prosecutors had listened to recordings of the jailed defendant’s phone…
Judges on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared testy this week as they considered a colleague’s refusal to order a new trial because of a witness’s…
The Securities and Exchange Commission received several warnings about the conduct of Bernard Madoff, accused last week of cheating investors out of $50 billion in a…
A lawyer for the state of Tennessee defending prosecutors’ decision to withhold evidence in a death penalty trial encountered skeptical and indignant questioning from several justices on Tuesday.
An unknown number of child sex-abuse convictions in Santa Clara County, Calif., could be overturned after the discovery of some 3,000 videotapes of medical exams dating back to 1991 that…
Federal prosecutors are reportedly readying indictments for the Blackwater Worldwide guards who are alleged to have participated in the 2007 shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians. The shootings left 17 dead…
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