In a case that is sure to be controversial, three boys in from a working-class Acworth, Ga., neighborhood have been charged in the alleged kidnapping and rape of an 11-year-old…
An attempt by a Louisiana judge to draft criminal defense lawyers to help out, on a pro bono basis, with a backlog of indigent cases was not an overwhelming success.
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will serve only one day in jail after his guilty plea in September to drug possession and driving under the influence.
Two criminal defense groups will conduct their own reviews of cases in which defendants were sent to jail with the help of now-discredited evidence of lead content in bullets.
Local and federal prosecutors say there is little they can do in the case of a Missouri couple accused of making up an online boy who romanced then taunted a…
The Appeals Court of Massachusetts has affirmed an intimidation conviction for a defendant who pointed a cell phone at a police officer waiting to testify.
As baseball fans throughout the country found out that home-run king Barry Bonds had been federally indicted yesterday in a steroids-related perjury case, many wondered why the Giants slugger has…
A former New York judge was sentenced to a 33-month prison term today for conspiring with a reputed mobster to launder $400,000 in claimed proceeds from stolen jewelry.
Responding to a legal action initiated by multiple media organizations, the Louisiana judge in an upcoming trial of one of the Jena 6 defendants says he will open Mychal Bell’s…
Caught in the midst of a sexual act, behind a locked door in his own bedroom with … his bicycle, a 51-year-old Scottish man is now a convicted sex criminal.
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