Jose Padilla, convicted of plotting acts of terrorism on U.S. soil, will do his 17 years at the federal prison in Colorado known as “Supermax” for its restrictive and isolating…
A Chicago-area judge has ordered a new trial for a man serving a life sentence for the murder of a security guard. He walked out of the Cook County, Ill.,…
Prosecutors claim Milberg Weiss and its lawyers pocketed $251 million in attorney fees that were tainted by kickbacks paid to lead plaintiffs in securities cases. But so far the government…
A Texas judge temporarily released an inmate yesterday who had been imprisoned for more than two decades in a burglary and rape case, after DNA evidence proved his innocence.
It’s April 15. Have you filed your tax return yet? Despite the adverse professional consequences that can result, some lawyers will delay long past today’s deadline for doing so, past…
A famed civil rights leader who was present when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated almost exactly 40 years ago has been convicted of sexually abusing his daughter during…
The Ohio Supreme Court has struck down a death sentence for a convicted double murderer because of his mental retardation, despite evidence that he could play video games, pay bills…
An Ohio attorney who disappeared for several days last year while pregnant and later falsely claimed to have been kidnapped at gunpoint, has been sentenced to probation and a $300…
An Indiana appellate court has tossed a man’s conviction for a quadruple murder, saying the trial judge should have granted the defendant’s speedy trial motion to dismiss the case.
A lawyer who funded a lavish lifestyle by stealing most of the $3.5 million intended to fund a lifetime of care for a paralyzed client has been sentenced to a…
A Massachusetts judge who, in an unprecedented move, recalled jurors to query them about potential racial bias in a murder case, has rejected the allegations that bias…
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