Impeached former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich finally admitted his guilt today at sentencing and apologized, telling U.S. District Judge James Zagel he made “terrible mistakes” and is “unbelievably sorry.”
A Virginia inmate who spent 27 years in prison for multiple rape convictions has obtained a writ of actual innocence and a job with the state attorney general who supported…
After pleading guilty earlier this year to embezzling over half a million dollars from a Virginia personal injury firm and apologizing in a sentencing hearing today, a former bookkeeper has…
Four defendants convicted in the 2007 torture slayings of a University of Tennessee student and her boyfriend will get new trials because of evidence that the judge in their case…
In an unusual move, a sheriff in suburban Chicago is calling for a top county prosecutor’s resignation after a Sunday magazine article in the New York…
A civil suit filed in 2008 by the 12-year-old Russian boy with whom Kenneth Schneider allegedly began a relationship in 1998 resulted in a 15-year prison term for the suburban…
Citing the “enormous damage” they said he did to public confidence in state government, federal prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence corrupt former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to between…
A former Ropes & Gray patent lawyer who cooperated in an insider trading investigation has been sentenced to six months in prison for his role in the wrongdoing.
Some lawyers with wealthy drug defendants housed inside Miami’s Federal Detention Center have reportedly found a way to spice up their clients’ incarceration.
A federal judge has accused two prominent New York lawyers of ethical lapses during what he had previously described as a “festival of perjury” related to a convicted criminal’s appeal…
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