The U.S. Supreme Court has limited federal inmates’ ability to get their crack cocaine sentences drastically lowered under the Sixth Amendment reach of a 2005 decision, United States v. Booker.
A trusted law firm secretary who stole at least $625,000 from a small New York firm said its partners were like brothers to her at a sentencing hearing yesterday.
A majority of federal judges surveyed agree with sentencing guidelines ranges for most federal crimes, but they take exception with mandatory minimums.
Sixty-two percent of the judges surveyed said mandatory…
Claude Howard Jones was executed a decade ago. But a DNA test is now going to be conducted to determine whether a 1-inch hair that was relied on to convict…
The man convicted of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 may also have tried to put a contract out on his younger brother, Sen. Ted Kennedy, in 1977.
The U.S. Supreme Court is giving a Florida death row inmate a chance to challenge his conviction, despite his lawyer’s failure to file a habeas appeal within the one-year deadline.
The former chief operating officer for the now-shuttered Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm has pleaded guilty to a federal money-laundering conspiracy charge and said she helped her ex-boss, now-disbarred attorney…
A 36-year-old lawyer shot to death at a Utah courthouse in 1985 would have opposed the execution of the man convicted of killing him in an escape attempt, according to…
Banks have made it harder to get a mortgage in recent years, after a national lending spree to buyers with dubious qualifications that contributed to an ongoing foreclosure crisis.
Nearly 400 people in Washington, D.C., have been convicted of driving while intoxicated based on faulty breath tests that calculated blood alcohol levels about 20 percent higher than the reality.
A unemployed cell-tower technician and Marine Corps veteran got a four-month jail term yesterday for throwing a 4-pound Chihuahua off a bridge in Maryland last year, presumably causing the dog’s…
Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to sentence ex-attorney Scott Rothstein tomorrow to a 40-year prison term for operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme out of his former South Florida…
More than 25 years after 7,000 people died from a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide Corp. pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, and many more were injured, a court…
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