Updated: After deliberating less than a day, a federal jury rendered a guilty verdict on all but one of the charges against a disbarred Washington state attorney accused of participating…
A prosecutor trying a credit card theft case in New York City wound up doing double duty after a juror accused another member of the panel of stealing his own…
A juror’s reported comment that “defense attorneys can be a––holes” is reason enough to vacate a cocaine conviction, according to a New Jersey appeals court.
A Georgia man accused of killing two people in a 2001 home invasion says his constitutional rights would be violated if he is tried by a jury drawn from 2000…
Sentenced to 15 to 40 years after being convicted of assault with intent to commit murder by stabbing an acquaintance in his apartment in what the prosecution described as a…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled a trial judge does not need to observe a potential juror to decide a prosecutor’s claim that he used a peremptory strike to dismiss…
Nearly 60 e-mail messages between jurors and a statement by a legal analyst for Bloomberg are cited in an appeal expected to be filed today on behalf of Brooke Astor’s…
Jurors in Andrews, Texas, today acquitted Anne Mitchell, who was on trial on charges that she misused official information when she anonymously reported a doctor to state medical authorities.
In a novel case sure to catch the attention of trial lawyers and researchers, the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says that attorneys may have a First Amendment…
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