District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal of Harris County, Texas, acknowledged in a Friday hearing that he deleted more than 2,500 e-mails he had been ordered to produce…
A “jailhouse lawyer” who helped a defendant challenge his cocaine sentence has seen a rare achievement: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
What role should brain scans play in court cases? Should psychopaths have a biomedical argument for special sentencing considerations? Are new developments in the study of the human brain helpful…
The MIT student charged with walking into an airport wearing a device feared to be a bomb is seeking dismissal of the charges on First Amendment grounds.
A Seattle prosecutor is taking action to curtail the public records requests of an imprisoned arsonist who’s been busy compiling information on the judges and lawyers who helped put him…
The sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are supporting a group of historians seeking release of transcripts from the grand jury investigation into the couple’s spying for the Soviet Union.
The failure of actor Wesley Snipes to call any defense witnesses at his tax fraud trial surprised pundits—and the company responsible for his $1 million bail bond.
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Alabama inmate James Harvey Callahan yesterday a little more than an hour before he was scheduled to die.
A Florida judge changed her mind and allowed members of the media and the public to view a videotaped statement of a suspect accused of killing a homeless man.
Securities class-action lawyer William Lerach hasn’t been shy about his opinions on issues such as sweetheart deals for corporate CEOs and the federal government’s…
The judge in the tax fraud trial of actor Wesley Snipes sent jurors home for the day yesterday after they submitted a note asking for further clarification of the definition…
Eli Lilly is discussing a possible $1 billion settlement of criminal and civil investigations into the company’s marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.
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