113 ABA Journal Mexico articles.
A 15-year-old United States citizen who admittedly killed four people by slitting their throats has been convicted in a Mexican court of torturing and beheading four people and kidnapping another…
Jul 26, 2011 11:04 PM CDT
Lawyers for a Mexican national on Texas’ death row petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today for a stay of the inmate’s scheduled July 7 execution.
The petition (PDF) has…
Jun 28, 2011 5:52 PM CDT
The head of the Latin America practice group at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy is taking a team of lawyers to Dewey & LeBoeuf, where he will serve in a…
Jun 14, 2011 7:32 PM CDT
A critically lauded documentary on Mexico’s corrupt justice system may be pulled from theaters after a federal judge received a complaint from a disgruntled witness who appears in the film.
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Mar 1, 2011 10:40 AM CST
A 14-year-old United States citizen has been charged with homicide by Mexican prosecutors for allegedly serving as an assassin for a drug cartel.
The teen, who is identified only as…
Feb 10, 2011 9:03 PM CST
A successful, idealistic Mexican lawyer who was elected to serve as mayor of Santiago in November 2009 didn’t last a year in office before he was kidnapped and killed, allegedly…
Jan 10, 2011 11:58 PM CST
Internationally vilified for tossing a cat into a trash can, in an act captured by a surveillance camera–and then identified after footage was posted online–a British woman was fined about…
Dec 28, 2010 4:53 PM CST
A 13-foot drug tunnel discovered this week led from the Mexican side of a border fence to a metered parking space in downtown Nogales, Ariz., authorities say.
There vehicles with…
Dec 16, 2010 5:01 PM CST
Late last month, U.S. legal portal Justia launched a companion portal for Mexico: Justia México.
The portal provides access to Mexican federal and state laws, including the…
Oct 20, 2010 8:10 PM CDT
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