A postal truck driver has been acquitted on charges of leaving the scene of an accident that killed the sister-in-law of Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
An appeals court is considering whether a slaying defendant deserves a new trial because of a judge’s instruction allowing jurors to consider whether he tried to change his appearance by…
Corrected: After two days of deliberations, a jury has found former suburban Chicago cop Drew Peterson guilty of murdering his third wife. He now faces up to 60 years in…
A video interview by Bloomberg of the foreman of a federal jury in California that awarded over $1 billion to Apple Inc. in a patent dispute case last week is…
Updated: New model jury instructions (PDF) developed by a federal Judicial Conference committee expand a previous ban on social media use and explain in simple…
Some defense lawyers are giving the Sacramento County district attorney’s office a “ruff” time regarding a member of their victim witness unit, who happens to be a standard poodle named…
A criminal defendant’s attack on his own counsel and court officers in front of the jury deciding the case, followed by an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the courtroom, is…
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