Former senior federal judge Jack Camp should be treated “like every other similarly situated criminal” and sentenced to prison time, federal prosecutors say in a sentencing memo concerning his guilty…
Attorney Diana Minella never intended to scam her clients, her lawyer says. But, due to bad business practices, she wound up being accused of taking money from 170 of them…
A 78-year-old Louisiana prisoner who pleaded guilty to child molestation in 1999 was surgically castrated on Thursday. Next week he is scheduled to be freed on parole.
Convicted by a federal jury in Scranton of 12 of the 39 counts that he faced in a bribery case, a former president judge of Luzerne County is now trying…
Adding nearly two years to the sentence recommended by prosecutors, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today sentenced a former Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Algeria to 5 and…
A retired chief drug prosecutor in the Detroit area has taken a plea in a controversial perjury case, along with two police officers, leaving only a former Wayne County judge…
An Ohio state law professor says a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued today on judges’ powers at resentencing will likely provide fodder for defense lawyers.
A lawyer for Sirhan Sirhan plans to tell a parole board today that his client doesn’t remember the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, possibly because he was “hypno-programmed” to…
A recent oral argument before the nation’s highest court probably won’t make much of a difference in the grander scheme of things, because the sentencing law at issue has already…
In addition to being a thief who stole some $2.7 million in seven years from the United Kingdom law firm at which she was a longtime, trusted employee, Louise Martini…
At least three mothers have been arrested and criminally charged in connection with a Michigan man’s alleged scheme to trick them into providing him with pornographic images of their children…
A disbarred South Florida lawyer has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for mail fraud and ordered to pay $3.9 million in restitution after pleading guilty to the…
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