Updated: Famed Mississippi plaintiffs attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, ashamed and shaking, was sentenced to five years in prison today for his role in a conspiracy to bribe a state judge.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which an inmate convicted of murder claims his lawyer improperly advised him to withdraw an insanity plea.
Rejecting calls by surviving family members for two consecutive life sentences, a Massachusetts judge today sentenced Neil Entwistle to two concurrent life terms for the first-degree murders of his 27-year-old…
A federal judge yesterday struck down a major portion of a revised Indiana sex offender registry law, saying that the state went too far in requiring that convicted sex offenders,…
The U.S. Supreme Court has twice ruled against Tennessee death-row inmate Gary Cone. Now the justices will decide whether federal courts may consider his claim that the prosecution withheld exculpatory…
A former law clerk for Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has lost his first U.S. Supreme Court case, but he got important praise from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that is…
Supermodel Naomi Campbell could have wound up in the slammer over an air rage incident last year in which she reportedly swore and screamed abuse at the pilot of an…
Alabama inmate Shep Wilson Jr. had his murder conviction overturned in 1990, but he was still in prison awaiting a retrial when he died last week from liver failure.
A convicted Michigan killer who was shocked in court with a stun gun last month after he reportedly went for a deputy’s gun when he was found guilty of murdering…
A Tulsa, Okla., attorney has pleaded no contest in the manslaughter death of his law partner, and a five-year sentence is being recommended by the prosecution.
Updated: As 10 legal ethics experts today protested the planned execution of a murderer convicted in a trial in which the judge allegedly was having a Jun 17, 2008 12:13 AM CDT
Clients in Collier County reportedly are complaining about several Florida law firms that have given money-back guarantees in traffic cases and then fought losing court battles on behalf of their…
Susan Atkins, a member of the notorious so-called Charles Manson family group that killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in a two-day spree in 1969, is dying and…
A Texas death-row inmate scheduled to be executed on Tuesday claims in court papers that the judge who presided at his trial was secretly dating the prosecutor.
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