Legislators in Pennsylvania are scurrying to close a loophole in state law that recently allowed a cell phone provider to give prosecutors’ personal records to a defense lawyer in a…
A court hearing yesterday revealed why 250 federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and Santa Ana removed themselves from the corruption prosecution of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona.
In a House Judiciary Committee hearing today, former Attorney General John Ashcroft disavowed the reasoning behind controversial legal memos created by Department of Justice attorneys that critics say justified torture…
The Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association is seeking a change in a state law that allowed a defense lawyer to obtain prosecutors’ cell phone records.
A veteran prosecutor in suburban Chicago has been suspended without pay for a month, starting yesterday, after her boss learned of her alleged undisclosed relationship with a police officer who…
The U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating allegations of misconduct made by a company unsuccessfully prosecuted by U.S. Attorney Alice Martin, the American Lawyer…
More a career prosecutor than a politician, Gerard T. Leone Jr., the Middlesex district attorney in Massachusetts, keeps a low profile even as his office takes…
In a major political corruption case that is still being investigated, the Pennsylvania attorney general has announced charges against 12 Democratic insiders in the state’s capital of Harrisburg, including a…
After more than a decade of whispers and suspicion, DNA tests have reportedly cleared the family of JonBenet Ramsey of involvement in the 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen’s murder in 1996.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., who is hearing appeals from 200 terrorism detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba told lawyers for both sides yesterday…
A judge has ruled that an Ohio prosecutor fired for walking around naked after hours in a government building where he worked is entitled to civil service protections.
A judge in Washington state overruled a defense lawyer’s objection to a prosecutor’s Purple Heart lapel pin at a DUI trial last week, saying that the prosecutor, who is an…
A congresswoman from Houston is calling for hearings into the local justice system after a grand jury’s decision not to indict a 62-year-old retiree who…
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