Earlier this year a Florida judge had to declare a mistrial in a high-profile murder case after multiple members of the jury pool gossiped with each other about the defendant…
Updated: In an action-packed Sept. 28 hearing, a Kentucky senior judge blasts an appellate lawyer seeking a new trial for his client in a high-profile murder case.
A Philadelphia man facing execution next week for a 1984 murder claims prosecutors hid evidence at his sentencing that he had been sexually abused by the man he was convicted…
A lawyer who helped draft a 1978 ballot measure to expand California’s death penalty is among those who’ve switched sides in the capital punishment debate.
Jury selection is set to begin Monday morning in the case of a University of Alabama Huntsville professor accused of shooting three colleagues in 2010.
Setting the stage for further appellate review of whether the defendant accused in the Ft. Hood shooting massacre can continue to wear at a military trial, in violation of Army…
The University of Colorado has retained four defense law firms to advise six employees, in the aftermath of an Aurora movie theater shooting spree in which former graduate student James…
For the second time in two years, a convicted Texas triple murderer has been given a last-minute reprieve by the U.S. Supreme Court on the day he was scheduled to…
A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling vacating the conviction and death sentence of a Virginia man in a 2001 murder-for-hire scheme.
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