Today the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether supervising prosecutors can be sued for management errors that result in wrongful convictions, SCOTUSblog reports.
In an unprecedented move, a Colorado district attorney’s office was yanked from a death penalty case after a judge learned that one of the prosecutors had previously represented the defendant.…
The Justice Department has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years, sparing those companies the cost and stigma of going to trial.
The jail in Hamilton County, Ohio, is already overcrowded. But that didn’t stop a local municipal court judge from setting a $1 million bond for Gary Weaver. So what is…
Bolstered by support from the legislature, prosecutors in Georgia are mounting a full assault against the state’s system of judicial review panels that, in some cases, reduced prison terms.
A federal judge has ordered Houston’s former district attorney Charles Rosenthal to pay almost $19,000 for his “venomous” deletion of thousands of e-mails.
A federal appeals court has ordered that former Alabama Gov. Donald Siegelman be released on bond. He has already served nine months in prison since he was convicted of bribery.
The Justice Department is considering whether to drop charges against a prominent Miami defense lawyer accused of laundering money by accepting fees from drug dealers.
At the beginning of the week, Ray Sumrow was the district attorney in Rockwall County, Texas. But by the end of the day on Monday, the 20-year prosecutor was a…
Many federal prosecutions of large prostitution rings were brought before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when prosecutors were forced to refocus their resources. Now there are about 450 active cases,…
The U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision yesterday emphasizing the importance of eliminating racial bias in jury selection, according to the lawyer for a black murder defendant who won…
When Katherine Clifton told Seattle area authorities last year that she had been raped, she was “an extremely articulate and credible victim. There was no reason to suspect she wasn’t…
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