A federal appeals court has warned prosecutors about the potential consequences of using “disrespectful or uncivil language” toward others in their appellate briefs.
A suspect in a child pornography investigation may assert his Fifth Amendment rights in refusing to unlock encrypted hard drives, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a Michigan inmate who contended he should have received a Miranda warning before being interrogated in a prison conference room about sexual conduct…
The Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on the constitutionality of outgoing former Gov. Haley Barbour’s mass pardon of state prison inmates.
A Georgia woman was expected to plead guilty Friday to charges that she kidnapped a newborn baby from a New York hospital in 1987 and raised the child as her…
A lawyer for Malcolm Harris, who under the Twitter handle @destructuremal allegedly started a false rumor that the band Radiohead would perform at Occupy Wall Street, today asked…
The ABA House of Delegates has adopted standards that could be used by courts and legislatures when deciding whether law enforcement investigating crimes should have access to records held by…
A judge has ordered the L.A. County Juvenile Court to be open to regular media coverage to boost transparency and shed greater light on problems that have festered outside the…
Mississippi’s high court has agreed to consider a legal challenge to pardons then-Gov. Haley Barbour handed out last month in his final days in office.
When a high-profile murder trial begins next month in Georgia, there’s one sought-after witness who won’t be called—a matrimonial lawyer representing the defendant’s estranged wife.
Alabama death-row inmate Cory Maples isn’t barred from appealing his conviction because of a blown appeals deadline caused by the departure of his BigLaw pro bono lawyers.
When he signed a plea agreement last year concerning a trip to Florida for the alleged purpose of helping a 14-year-old boy explore intimacy, he wasn’t in his right mind,…
Sheriff’s deputies in DeKalb County, Ga., arrested seven people on Thursday after gang members and relatives of a murder victim brawled outside the courtroom.
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