A death row inmate who claims the Eighth Amendment bars his execution because he is innocent of the crime will get a hearing before a federal district judge, thanks to…
A district attorney’s office that refused a Pennsylvania judge’s order to reveal the name of a confidential informant has been held in contempt of court and fined $5,000.
Retired federal judge Abner J. Mikva, who heads up a panel investigating clout in the admissions process at the University of Illinois, decried the growing practice by prosecutors of holding…
A father and physician who was the sole survivor of a deadly home invasion in Connecticut is seeking a court order barring the suspects and their legal counsel from contacting…
The courtroom gallery brimmed with lawyers during the trial in January of four men accused of murdering Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter for the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta who was gunned…
In yesterday’s high court ruling that opens the door to direct examination of crime lab personnel, Justice Antonin Scalia quipped that, “the sky will not fall after today’s decision.”
Russia’s Supreme Court today ordered a new trial for two Chechen brothers and a former police officer who were acquitted on charges they helped in the assassination of investigative journalist…
In a decision that resurrects a convicted sex offender’s lawsuit against a Las Vegas detective and local prosecutor, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has said the…
A woman who is reported to have hidden from authorities rather than testify against her husband at a sexual assault trial last year has been charged with failing to appear…
In a 6-3 ruling this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court closed the door, but didn’t slam it shut in the case involving a former Enron executive who is fighting government…