Drug courts were created 30 years ago to offer offenders with substance abuse problems an alternative to jail. But now criminal defense lawyers say the drug courts need reform in…
In a sealed decision last week that was declassified today, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., orders the release of a 50-year-old Kuwait Airlines engineer and slammed the United States…
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is taking advantage of the recession by hiring 30 associates whose start dates were pushed back by large law firms.
Those looking for a little light entertainment might wish to tune in tonight to a new television program about the travails of a disgraced Illinois prosecutor’s wife forced to return…
In a letter sent to the White House today, seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency ask President Barack Obama to overrule U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to…
A Florida billionaire’s secret non-prosecution deal with the feds in an investigation of conduct that eventually resulted in his plea to state-court prostitution-related felonies was unsealed today. And it revealed…
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is blaming the federal prosecutor who obtained the indictment against him for the suicide of his friend and fundraiser Christopher Kelly.
Fired two years ago in a political purge of federal prosecutors during the Bush administration, a former U.S. attorney for Nevada has now been rehired.
A recent federal appeals court ruling provides an unusually detailed roadmap to prosecutors about appropriate electronic discovery parameters and procedures and could create a sea change in the way the…
At the same time that the United States was prosecuting five Cuban intelligence agents in Miami nearly a decade ago, the government’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting was also paying local…
Four days after the Bank of America’s shareholders approved a merger with Merrill Lynch, the bank’s general counsel, Timothy Mayopoulos, was suddenly fired and escorted from the building without being…
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