A new judge has scheduled a hearing for Monday to consider a Texas death-row inmate’s request for more information about an alleged affair between the judge and prosecutor in his…
A group of 22 former judges and prosecutors have sent a letter to the governor of Texas seeking a delay of the execution of Charles Dean Hood to allow time…
Seeking to put a stop to a serial killer that authorities say has been operating in the Los Angeles area for some 23 years, the L.A. City Council today approved…
A former Georgia judge and his wife are firing back in a federal prosecution over claimed court corruption in the Alapaha Judicial Circuit, alleging “outrageous government misconduct” in matters related…
Starting in 1985, the same suspect has reportedly been killing women in the Los Angeles area. As of early last year, when the last body was found, the total number…
A Wisconsin prosecutor says she made a “serious judgment error” when she entered into a secret deferred prosecution agreement with a police officer who backed over his girlfriend.
In a move that has raised the hackles of the ACLU, the attorney general of Utah has publicly posted on his newly redesigned website additional photographs and other documentary material…
Updated: A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of indictments against 13 accounting firm employees because the government pressured their employer to cut off their legal fees.
An FBI official foresaw in 2004 that mortgage fraud was a ticking time bomb. But the agency didn’t devote enough resources to protect the nation’s economy from what has proved…
The district attorney of Bedford County, Penn., admits that he had sex with a woman in his courthouse office last month after a monthly meeting of the Bedford County Republicans.…
Former White House counsel Harriet Miers could be required to appear before the House Judiciary Committee as early as next month under a federal judge’s ruling yesterday.
Under a new Texas law, state prosecutors can carry handguns anywhere except jails and prisons. That means they are allowed to take them into courthouses and courtrooms.
George Damaa doesn’t remember the accident that put him in the hospital in a coma, with multiple injuries, and killed three other people, including his girlfriend, in 1995.
Earlier this year, a lawyer for a star prosecutor in Santa Clara County, Calif., said he looked forward to vindication at his trial on legal ethics charges.
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