A federal appeals court has granted en banc review in the case of a man who fired his lawyer and represented himself at trial, resulting in a conviction for making…
Supporters of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales point to accomplishments, such as his creation of a national security division within the Justice Department and his fight against child exploitation.
From Sept. 11, 2001, through March of this year, federal investigators have interviewed more than 15,000 “persons of interest” in connection with activities investigators associate with terrorism—including such diverse crimes…
Imagine Osama bin Laden is captured by U.S. forces on the Afghan-Pakistan border. He’s transported to the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan—blocks from the World Trade Center site—where…
The disgraced former prosecutor responsible for filing unfounded rape charges against former members of the Duke University men’s lacrosse team was found in criminal contempt of court today and sentenced…
A Connecticut patent lawyer who killed his neighbor after his wife reportedly told him the man had molested their 2-year-old daughter was sentenced today to 12 years in prison. Meanwhile,…
A former president of the Northern Virginia Bankruptcy Bar Association reportedly has been sentenced by a federal judge to a year and a day in jail for conspiracy to commit…
Inspector General Glenn Fine has sent questionnaires to hundreds of Justice Department job applicants in an effort to learn if political considerations played a role in hiring and firing.
A list of likely prosecution witnesses in the upcoming trial of an Illinois man accused of murdering his wife and three young children contains some mysterious entries.
California has been burned by a “scorched-earth” approach to litigation over pay policies for inmates who work for private employers on prison grounds.
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