A child pornography case concerning illicit images allegedly stored in the defendant’s laptop computer has created what experts say is a novel Fifth Amendment issue. Can the defendant assert his…
An alleged child-care scam managed in part by a prison inmate, with the help of his wife, who works as a California government employee, reportedly has resulted in charges against…
A disbarred New York attorney has reportedly pleaded guilty in the middle of a trial to assuming his deceased father’s identity and misrepresenting himself as a lawyer, in order to…
One of the defendants in the “Jena Six” case that sparked national civil rights marches last year has been arrested over an incident at his new high school in Texas.
The ban has been lifted against a Washington state lawyer ordered not to appear on behalf of indigent defendants at his local courthouse, after a judge reportedly blabbed about their…
Documents released in the appeal of convicted al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui showed that Justice Department lawyers knew since at least early 2006 that the CIA destroyed a videotaped interrogation of…
A Kentucky judge has threatened to hold prosecutors in contempt if they don’t stop making “obnoxious, ridiculous, abundant and useless objections” during probable cause hearings.
A day after CIA director Michael Hayden admitted in testimony before Congress that the Bush administration had used the so-called waterboarding technique on three al-Qaida suspects, a White House spokesman…
A Michigan lawyer has been charged with a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession, after a small metal container in which he allegedly kept the illicit substance set off the metal…
The Kansas Supreme Court is barring release of records of abortion patients until it considers a motion to quash grand-jury subpoeanas for the documents.
Updated: An outside lawyer for Eli Lilly & Co. apparently has two people named “Berenson” in her e-mail address book. One is a reporter for the New York Times and…
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