Convicted in a felony case concerning the misuse of a former employer’s credit card, the onetime director of the municipal law department in Cleveland agreed to a deal that would…
More than a year ago, President George W. Bush nominated Gustavus Puryear IV to be a federal district judge in Nashville, Tenn. His nomination is supported by Republican Sens. Lamar…
Although prosecutors sought probation for a former name partner at a California entertainment law boutique, a federal judge gave Richard Purtich a two-month sentence yesterday for helping another law firm…
Reportedly caught in his home in Kuwait with 22 pounds of cocaine and 165 pounds of hashish, Talal Nasser al Sabah was convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to death.
Jailed in Belarus since his arrival in March, a New York lawyer with health problems has now been tried behind closed doors and sentenced to three years in prison.
Prosecutors and defense counsel should have access to material gathered by federal probation officers during their preparation of presentence reports, according to a resolution passed by the ABA’s policy-making House…
Prosecutors sought a prison term of at least 30 years for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the Osama bin Laden chauffeur convicted this week of some, but not all, of the terrorism…
Down to the penny, a federal judge in Ohio wanted former executives of one of the nation’s largest private fraud cases to know how much damage they caused.
Some 30 friends and family members attended a Tuesday sentencing hearing for a former Billings, Mont., attorney, supporting the man they knew as a devoted family man and warmhearted community…
A Texas court has refused to stop the impending execution of a man whose case has spurred two rulings by the International Court of Justice requiring further review of his…
Brought down by a drug habit, according to his attorney, a former assistant Orange County public defender sat before a judge today in Santa Ana, Calif., in a jail jumpsuit…
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