A postal inspector and a paralegal who allegedly had a secret romance while working on opposing sides during a lawyer’s mortgage fraud trial have been charged with perjury and obstruction…
In what the San Diego County district attorney is calling a first-of-a-kind lawsuit, her office is seeking to overturn a last-minute prison sentence commutation by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as he…
Lawyers for an inmate whose death sentence was overturned due to misconduct by a Texas District Attorney’s office are seeking to oust one of the original prosecutors from a new…
A self-confessed Detroit hitman serving time for eight murders reportedly has claimed responsibility as well for four more slayings that another man has been convicted of committing.
A Colorado judge has nixed seven perjury counts against a Fort Collins police investigator blamed for the wrongful 1999 murder conviction of Timothy Masters, finding that the state had brought…
A homeless Albuquerque, N.M., man and registered sex offender has been arrested for moving out of the Dumpster he called home and into an abandoned building without notifying authorities.
An Oklahoma appeals court has overturned a woman’s murder conviction because a judge advised jurors not to be “hardheads” and told them to reach a quick verdict.
A Philadelphia judge admits she called a defendant “vile,” but it got deleted from the transcript because of her request for deletion of “nonjudicial” comments, according to a Pennsylvania Supreme…
An Oklahoma sentencing hearing Monday for a defendant who had just been convicted in a high-profile felony murder case played out like a scene from a Hollywood western, according to…
The Louisiana Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a death penalty appeal that targets a Confederate flag flying outside the courthouse in Caddo Parish.
A former partner at Winston & Strawn pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy concerning a scheme to launder nearly $19 million through attorney escrow accounts under his control.
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