1702 ABA Journal Criminal Procedure articles.
Jurors were questioned about their own personal masturbation habits today at the outset of a Florida trial in which they must determine if a 20-year-old inmate is guilty of masturbating…
Jul 25, 2007 9:54 PM CDT
Lawyers for a defendant in the KPMG tax shelter fraud case signed on and can’t now sign off until the case reaches a final conclusion, a federal court judge says.
…Jul 24, 2007 11:08 PM CDT
Prosecutors are appealing a Maryland judge’s decision to dismiss rape charges against a Liberian immigrant because of delays in finding an interpreter.
Judge Katherine Savage of Rockville dismissed the case…
Jul 24, 2007 4:03 PM CDT
A lawyer who spoke to reporters in Guyana about a New York case he was handling broke a local rule barring lawyers from making comments that could interfere with a…
Jul 23, 2007 4:14 PM CDT
In a sign of the law enforcement times, two California judges were asked yesterday to issue injunctions that would prohibit 76 alleged gang members from hanging out in certain areas…
Jul 13, 2007 8:54 PM CDT
A former partner at the securities class-action firm Milberg, Weiss & Bershad contends in expanded court filings that government charges against him are arbitrary and vague.
Steven Schulman has been…
Jul 5, 2007 1:39 PM CDT
The federal judge overseeing the criminal prosecution of former KPMG partners appeared to waver on whether he would dismiss charges because of government conduct.
Judge Lewis Kaplan said on Monday…
Jul 3, 2007 7:12 PM CDT
A 7th Circuit judge reportedly created a stir amongst visitors from the Australian legal community at a recent Chicago conference, when he allegedly advocated secret trials for terrorists, among other…
Jul 2, 2007 11:17 PM CDT
A dozen years after Larry Griffin was executed, despite his continuing proclaimations of innocence, by the state of Missouri, there are major unanswered questions about whether he was actually guilty…
Jun 26, 2007 8:35 PM CDT
Fare more so than has been realized until now, Vice President Dick Cheney was a key architect of the Bush administration’s plan to evade the Geneva conventions and at least…
Jun 26, 2007 1:57 AM CDT
A former defense lawyer for music producer and murder defendant Phil Spector may soon be headed for the slam.
Sara Caplan had been held in contempt by the trial judge…
Jun 26, 2007 1:17 AM CDT
Public, legislative and judicial pressure to end the extraordinary detention of so-called enemy combatants and others suspected of links to al-Qaeda terrorists at a U.S. Navy prison in Guantanamo Bay,…
Jun 22, 2007 12:40 AM CDT
Oops. After winning a tax evasion case against a man described as the biggest tax evader in U.S. history, federal prosecutors made a mistake.
They cited the wrong statutory language…
Jun 19, 2007 1:07 AM CDT
The lawyer for a convicted murderer who lost his Supreme Court appeal over a mistaken filing deadline says the court “went for form over substance.”
An 88-year-old American lawyer who helped try war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II says today’s Guantanamo Bay cases fly in the face of the prosecutorial precedent he…
Jun 12, 2007 12:27 AM CDT
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