As autism rates continue to soar, parents warn of the likelihood of increasing clashes between police and teens with the disorder who become aggressive when they become frustrated or angry.
As 1996 neared an end, Chad Wold’s life course seemed set. The recent law school graduate was getting settled in Montana, where he was about to get married and study…
Cristian Gheorghiu has only paid about $5,000 of the $28,000 in fines he got after being convicted of being one of the most prolific graffiti taggers in Los Angeles.
Sentenced last week to home confinement, three years of probation and restitution for federal mortgage fraud and tax crimes, a longtime registrar at Quinnipiac University Law School avoided prison time…
Twenty-six years after a young couple vanished from their San Marino home, prosecutors in California have charged a German national known as “Crockefeller” with murder concerning the death of the…
The South Carolina Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction due to prosecutorial misconduct and held that double jeopardy precludes retrial of a man who undisputedly shot and killed his…
A former senior federal judge was sentenced today to 30 days in prison and 400 hours of community service after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting a felon in the…
During the 1980s, a young attorney named Mark Roy Anderson reportedly got some $50 million from around 2,000 investors to fund a business of purchasing, fixing up and selling National…
A former assistant state attorney general who at one time was the top drug prosecutor in Maine was sentenced today to a 16-year federal prison term in a child pornography…
Apparently seeking money to which she was not entitled, a former partner of McGuireWoods admittedly provided a phony Internal Revenue Service document to the firm’s general counsel in February 2010.
A former Kentucky judge has been sentenced to over 26 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy among public officials to gain power and control by corrupting…
With Gov. Pat Quinn’s signature today, a bill banning the death penalty in Illinois is now official. The legislation will take effect July 1, Reuters reports.
When John Edward Dawson told his lawyer in a state court burglary and drug case that he was also being represented by a federal defender, she thought he was delusional…
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