About a month after the felony antitrust convictions of two former Marsh & McLennan executives were thrown out last year, former New York attorney general and governor Eliot Spitzer wrote…
State bar officials in Florida have opened an investigation into Jose Baez over whether he was fully candid with the court over his client Casey Anthony’s probation.
Three men convicted in a controversial Arkansas child-murder case were released from prison today after taking Alford pleas during a court hearing in Jonesboro.
A New York personal injury lawyer was sentenced today to a three-year federal prison term for serving as a conduit for at least two attorney tipsters then working at Ropes…
An angry juvenile court judge yesterday told two teenagers and an 11-year-old boy that their “actions, behavior, and attitude” concerning a July 29 flash mob attack by a large group…
Thanks to powerful digital tools and an international team of researchers, a detailed history of hundreds of years of British criminal trials can be quickly scanned and categorized as never…
Reportedly “shopped” to police by his mother after she saw a photo in a national newspaper showing her son looting in Manchester last week, a British teenager didn’t have it…
For years, Michelle Kosilek has been living as a woman in a men’s prison in Massachusetts, with the help of female hormone and hair-removal treatments.
A judge suspended the 180-day jail sentence of California defense attorney David Taylor Kaye, instead ordering probation and ordering him to undergo sex offender counseling for secretly filming women at…
Corrected: A Michigan judge should be disqualified from hearing drunken driving cases because of her tough DUI sentences, according to a motion filed this week.
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