The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a Texas death row inmate has the right to DNA tests that his lawyer rejected because he feared they would be…
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett has withdrawn a subpoena that sought the identities of two Twitter users who criticized his “Bonusgate” investigation of legislative corruption.
Updated: Frank Bingham’s life took a significant new direction when he was 35, after his girlfriend, Rebecca Jean Dace, gave him an ultimatum: Get married or break up. He opted…
A longtime paralegal and office manager for a suburban Philadelphia law firm is facing 23 new criminal charges after being indicted today by a federal grand jury.
After being held for months, an American Baptist missionary accused of attempting to take dozens of Haitian children out of the country illegally after the devastating earthquake in January has…
As the Daily Pulp blog of the Broward-Palm Beach New Times reports a lawyer’s claim that disgraced ex-attorney Scott Rothstein stole $168 million of his $1.4 billion…
A planned contempt hearing today for an unidentified juror accused of violating the judge’s instructions by watching a YouTube video about a reckless homicide case…
Last month, when a Florida judge delayed sentencing ex-attorney Jessica Miller in a client theft case, he offered a hint about what she might do in the meantime to win…
A former Ohio attorney general who resigned in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal in 2008 is expected to plead guilty tomorrow to two misdemeanors that have not yet…
Asked at the last minute to give a friend a ride to a suburban Chicago courthouse on Monday, 19-year-old Jennifer LaPenta got behind the wheel still dressed for the gym…
The former chief of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of criminal contempt of Congress for withholding information from a U.S.…
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