In an unusual situation that attracted both prosecutors and defense lawyers as courtroom spectators, veteran criminal defense lawyers in two separate cases in Baltimore were asked to explain themselves in…
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.
When he’s not working as a criminal defense attorney, Martin Baker needs a way to relax. So the central California practitioner paints as his avocation.
A settlement requiring a bankruptcy trustee in Pittsburgh to refrain from criticizing Countrywide Financial Corp. is being criticized by the U.S. Justice Department.
Two assistant U.S. attorneys told a judge on Friday that they are facing ethics probes for encouraging an ex-assistant sheriff to secretly record his onetime boss, former Orange County Sheriff…
All possible leads reportedly are being pursued in a venomous snake’s second disappearance in a month from a Moody Gardens exhibit in Galveston, Texas.
A retired Georgia judge who stepped down from the 2005 Atlanta courthouse killings case told an ABA panel today that prosecutors are partially to blame for high costs and delays…
Authorities say they may have identified a mysterious man who allegedly abducted his 7-year-old daughter after a divorce from the wealthy socialite to whom he had been married for 12…
A commercial fisherman arrested in what is believed to be the largest lobster-poaching case ever pursued in the Florida Keys has been freed after posting $1 million bail—far more than…
A jury will decide whether a veteran Maryland defense lawyer tried to get a prosecution witness to change his testimony in a murder case, because “there is enough there” that…
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