In a 7-2 opinion Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the government should pay federally appointed lawyers for working on state clemency requests for death row inmates.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a trial judge’s mistake in seating a juror despite a lawyer’s peremptory challenge did not require reversal of the defendant’s murder conviction.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that a defendant upset when prosecutors renege on a plea bargain need to bring the issue up at trial, not on appeal.
In a radio interview yesterday, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., defended his charge that Justice Antonin Scalia is a “homophobe,” contrasting Scalia’s opinions with those of another dissenting justice in…
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments April 21 in a suit that contends a strip search of a 13-year-old student violated the Fourth Amendment.
The U.S. Supreme Court considered yesterday whether former Enron executive F. Scott Yeager can avoid a retrial on some counts that produced a jury deadlock after his acquittal on other…
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments today in a case that asks whether a documentary blasting Hillary Clinton is an electioneering communication subject to federal campaign finance restrictions.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an inmate convicted of murder who claims his lawyer provided ineffective assistance of counsel by advising him to withdraw an insanity plea.
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