Months ago, federal prosecutors in San Francisco had recommended a plea deal for alleged gang member and accused triple-murderer Emile Fort that would have included a 40-year prison term.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has announced he won’t run for re-election after 50 years of leading offices prosecuting federal and then state crimes.
A prosecutor and a defense lawyer in the fraud case against the son of the late wealthy socialite Brooke Astor “nearly came to blows” following a court hearing, according to…
A U.S. prisoner who has been held without trial for more than five years as an alleged “enemy combatant” is now reportedly about to be charged by the Department of…
An assistant district attorney in Georgia has resigned after his arrest on charges of public intoxication and theft of services stemming from an alleged drunken tussle with a hot-dog vendor.
A veteran defense lawyer’s allegations that a federal case against 11 defendants accused of plotting the overthrow of the government of Laos is permeated with lies should be taken “right…
In the wake of news last week that the police chief of a major Mexican city in Chihuahua had resigned rather than face the threat of another police officer being…
Asked by a friend who is a lawyer to write a statement saying that she wasn’t drunk when she left a bar, New York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Makowski reportedly…
In 2005, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sent letters to holders of certificates of deposit at Stanford International Bank of Antigua, seeking information about how the instruments had been…
Yesterday the Boston Globe reported about a federal plea deal in which an alleged prostitute accused of extorting a six-figure sum from a married businessman is to get…
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