Two prominent lawyers were convicted Monday by a federal jury in New Orleans for their roles in a scheme by three business partners to obtain film-industry tax credits from the…
At least one of the defense lawyers representing Johnny Parker, 31, and William Fillyaw, 37, in their joint first-degree murder trial earlier this year asked that their unusual twin-jury trial…
It appears that a former TV-show judge may be headed back to the slammer over a Tennessee juvenile-court outburst last year, in which he talked himself into an escalated five-day…
Ensuring that all Americans have sufficient access to justice has been one of the top priorities of the American Bar Association. One of the states with the largest gaps between…
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear the case of a Texas inmate who claimed that executing him after more than 30 years on death row would constitute cruel and…
Pennsylvania’s top court has declined to intervene in a dispute between a district attorney and a local police department investigating a claim that she forged a judge’s signature on a…
A Utah inmate has forfeited his right to appellate counsel because of repeated and extreme “dilatory, disruptive, and threatening conduct” toward his lawyers, the Utah Supreme Court has ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a pretrial detainee who claims jail officers used excessive force when subduing him with a stun gun must prove his jailers…
A Missouri death-row inmate is entitled to the appointment of new counsel after his lawyers filed a habeas petition 117 days after the deadline, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on behalf of a death row inmate whose trial counsel said in his closing remarks that he could not “quarrel with” a death sentence.
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Kentucky Circuit Court Judge David Tapp: “We need increased focus on better and better data.” Photo by Hollis Bennett.
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