Clarified: A 54-year-old man with a low IQ who reportedly couldn’t handle money and sucked his thumb was put to death Tuesday in Texas for the 1992 murder of a…
When a prominent Texas trial lawyer bought a 1928 armor-plated Cadillac once owned by gangster Al Capone, the history of the car was well-documented from 1931, after a tax-evasion conviction…
An impasse between the Army psychiatrist facing capital charges in a fatal 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, and the military judge who will preside over his court-martial has…
Lois Gibson has worked 30 years for the Houston police department as a sketch artist. During that time, her work earned her a Guinness World Record for the most criminals…
A Virginia-based military vehicle manufacturer isn’t admitting any wrongdoing, but has agreed to pay a $55,000 settlement to a morbidly obese materials handler fired from his $21-an-hour job at a…
Updated: A certified public accountant who applied to Baylor Law School claims in a lawsuit (PDF) that he is a victim of age discrimination because he went to college…
The government is dropping all charges against a Texas lawyer who had been expected to go to trial this week on charges related to multiple attacks on his wife.
An attorney representing a Pennsylvania lawyer in a federal racketeering case concerning the claimed takeover and looting of a Texas-based mortgage company is seeking to sever his client’s trial from…
A man accused of bilking victims in Texas of over $20,000 by posing as an attorney was subsequently arrested in Mississippi, where he was pretending to be a preacher and…
A federal judge in Brownsville has refused to dismiss a racketeering conspiracy case against a sitting district attorney and a lawyer accused of involvement in a judicial bribery scheme.
A South Texas judge acquitted on all counts in a criminal bribery trial last year apparently is not complaining about her representation by defense lawyers Theresa Caballero and Stuart Leeds…
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