Corrected: A former prosecutor in Bexar County, Texas, pleaded no contest to a felony drug charge yesterday as his trial for purchasing crack cocaine was about to begin.
Initially charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his mother, an 11-year-old Illinois boy pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree murder.
The unidentified youth expressed no remorse in yesterday’s…
An Arkansas lawyer and businessman admitted in federal court yesterday that he orchestrated a $47 million Ponzi scheme involving seven banks by creating fake rural improvement bonds.
A juvenile court judge in Clayton County, Ga., has ordered a teenager to create a memorial to a 2-year-old girl who died at a daycare center after being left in…
Facing a new legal issue following her release after being acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Casey Anthony is returning to Orlando, Fla., for another court hearing.
The former general counsel of a Houston life settlement company has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for aiding a corporate scheme that defrauded investors of $100…
Life means life in Florida, and John Curtis Ivey, sentenced to a life term at age 22 for an armed robbery in which he pistol-whipped the victim, has served 19…
A former assistant Los Angeles public defender who was criminally convicted in 1998 of sex offenses concerning a 16-year-old he met when she was a client of the PD’s office,…
A 15-year-old United States citizen who admittedly killed four people by slitting their throats has been convicted in a Mexican court of torturing and beheading four people and kidnapping another…
A Los Angeles County, Calif., assistant district attorney has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit against her that stemmed from a car crash involving two women and…
A former law dean at Kaplan Inc. has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for sending threatening messages concerning the online educational institution and its…
Updated: Scheduled to be in federal court in East St. Louis for sentencing today at 9 a.m. in a mail fraud case, an Illinois attorney sent his lawyer a fax…
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