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…
Seven of the 14 people forgiven by President Bush last week are former hunting or shooting enthusiasts. Five even wrote Bush expressing their desire to win back the right to…
An unusual triple murder trial of three men charged with the murder of a New York police officer during a 2007 traffic stop in Brooklyn is being handled in an…
In 1980, Ronald Rice stood before a judge in suburban Chicago and apologized for hiding the body of an 11-year-old boy that he accidentally hit with his car. He was…
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