Problems including conflicts of interest and a lack of appropriate scientific standards require a wholesale overhaul of crime labs throughout the country, to be sure that the guilty are convicted…
A North Carolina man arrested on Albany, N.Y., assault charges after the victim identified him from a photo on the MySpace social networking site has suddenly been cleared as his…
An arbitrator has awarded a former employee of an e-discovery firm $300,000 after chastising her one-time employer for failing to turn up e-mails that supported her case.
Finding that trainer Brian McNamee would have faced potential prosecution if he didn’t cooperate with an investigation by Sen. George Mitchell on steroids use in Major League Baseball, a federal…
In a week already packed with news about alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball during the past decade, another player has taken center stage.
In a rare real-life, high-stakes demonstration of the prisoner’s dilemma—two suspects can both escape consequences, but only by trusting each other not to snitch to authorities—a judge in Malaysia has…
In what is apparently the first posthumous DNA exoneration in the history of Texas, a state court judge today ordered that Timothy Cole’s rape conviction should be reversed and removed…
As evidence recently made public in the Barry Bonds case makes clear, excluding blood tests that allegedly show he took steroids is key to his trial strategy in a federal…
A draft report by the National Academy of Sciences reportedly says many crime labs use shoddy techniques and exaggerate the accuracy of their findings.
Two British High Court judges say they have refused to release evidence of alleged torture because of a U.S. threat to stop sharing intelligence evidence with the country.
Unhappy with the mail-order penis enlargement product he bought in 2007, a New Jersey attorney was also unhappy with the initial result of the class-action consumer fraud litigation he brought…
International publicity about a published photograph in which Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps is seen taking a hit off what appears to be a marijuana pipe—as Phelps himself has admitted…
In what the U.S. Department of Justice describes as an unprecedented ruling, a federal judge in Chicago yesterday ordered the FBI to search its massive national DNA database to see…
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