The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Korean War veteran on death row deserves a new sentencing hearing because his lawyer did not introduce evidence of post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Swiss Criminal Court in Zurich has granted $4.5 million bail for director Roman Polanski, although he is currently in prison and is expected to remain there while the Swiss…
A little-noticed opinion by a New York judge earlier this month didn’t simply free Fernando Bermudez after 18 years in prison in a murder case. It found that…
Too embarrassed to admit that he’d suffered financial reverses and make layoffs, a well-known Arkansas plaintiffs attorney instead admittedly stole $9.3 million from client trust funds he controlled to keep…
Disbarred civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart had a few words for her followers on Thursday before she surrendered to begin serving her 28-month prison sentence for helping an imprisoned terrorist…
Sentenced yesterday by a federal judge in California to 41 months for embezzling $1.3 million from the law firm at which she formerly worked as office manager, Regina Schenck blames…
A convicted murderer who argues Alabama law didn’t allow his death sentence will get a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on whether his appeal was filed too late.
For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and restored the death penalty for a man convicted of the…
Baltimore lawyer J. Wyndal Gordon says he had a special bond with convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, and he plans to write a book about his onetime client.
In a perhaps unexpected example of the banality of evil, attendees at a preview today of a New York auction of personal belongings bought with money from Bernard Madoff’s record-breaking…
A concurring opinion by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the ABA’s capital representation standards and the association’s membership has one conservative commentator doing the blog equivalent of a victory…
The problem of drawing lines became a focus at yesterday’s oral arguments on whether the Constitution bars a sentence of life without parole for juveniles who don’t commit murder.
A lawyer who formerly worked in the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has pleaded guilty to helping attorney Marc Dreier try to sell $44.7 million of…
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