In what may be the first of dozens of new prosecutions of foreign detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. military charged a Canadian with murder and other crimes…
An alleged Washington, D.C., madam with some 15,000 clients over the years had her assets confiscated as part of an ongoing federal prosecution. So, unable to fund her legal defense…
In the latest salvo in the continuing controversy over U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his role in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys as part of an alleged political…
A 21-month criminal trial in Indonesia against a major U.S. mining company and one of its executives ended today with a not-guilty verdict by the judge.
A California judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a Korean-American reserve sheriff’s officer accused of pulling a gun on two golfers, because the recent massacre of 32…
A $50,000 reward has been offered by an anonymous donor for information concerning the apparent murder late last year of a suburban St. Louis personal injury attorney in his law…
The DNA testing that recently led to the release of the 200th man freed by the use of the new forensic technology also implicated another man. A convicted rapist was…
On this day in 1800, President John Adams approved a then-hefty $5,000 appropriation to establish the Library of Congress, 20 percent of which went for law books (mainly on British…
The founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” video company pleaded guilty to criminal contempt yesterday for failing to meet a settlement deadline. Joe Francis was fined $5,000 and sentenced to…
Testimony by an expert witness for prosecutors who was unable to help a patient suffering from severe migraines ended up aiding the physician on trial for drug trafficking, according to…