It’s perfectly legal for someone to stand under a stairway and look up women’s skirts, according to a Queens, N.Y., city council member who intends to do something about it.
A California judge’s unusual order prohibiting a self-described pedophile from getting within 10 yards of the state’s children is invalid, according to Los Angeles prosecutors. But an attorney who persuaded…
A law professor argues that search warrants are “utterly beside the point” when the object is to detect terrorism schemes rather than to gather evidence against a suspect.
On the eve of its planned execution of the 400th inmate to be put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the ultimate penalty in 1976, Texas has rejected…
Two recently paroled methamphetamine dealers can continue in their relationship of more than 20 years, in spite of a rule that normally bars convicted felons from associating with one another…
Jack McClellan is a reprehensible freak, says Leonard Pitts. A self-admitted California pedophile, McClellan puts parents on edge by talking publicly about how he likes to look at little girls.
Lawmakers may have given the government more authority to search Americans than they realized when they quickly passed a terrorism wiretap law before the end of the congressional session.
After two years, criminal cases brought in Arizona against eight men in the same polygamous sect for allegedly marrying underage girls are nearing an end.
Notes turned over to the House Judiciary Committee by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III reportedly describe former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft as “barely articulate,” “feeble” and “clearly stressed”…
The National Law Enforcement Museum isn’t scheduled to open for another four years. But it doesn’t need a bricks-and-mortar building to provide access to interviews of FBI agents about big…
Updated: In a verdict today in a controversial American anti-terrorism trial, Jose Padilla and two co-defendants have been found guilty on all charges.
A bill being considered in the California legislature attempts to regulate checkbook journalism and private investigators who pay for confidential information.
The legislation, AB 920, would make it a misdemeanor…