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A Pierce County, Washington jury has acquitted a man of first-degree animal cruelty after his ex-wife accused him of having sex with the family dog. He is the first person to be charged under the state's new animal cruelty law.
Two English protesters who broke into an Royal Air Force base to sabotage US B-52 bombers by clogging their engines with nuts and bolts were acquitted after arguing that they were acting to prevent war crimes in Iraq.
After 8 months of investigation, police didn't have probable cause for a warrant. So they decided to swing by the house. The defendant wasn't home but his 91-year-old father was. He let the cops upstairs and said they could search his son
A former Democratic Party activist who left dog feces on the doorstep of U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's Greeley office during last year's 4th Congressional District campaign was found not guilty of criminal use of a noxious substance. A jury de
The judge in Phil Spector's murder trial ruled famed criminologist Henry Lee recovered possible evidence from the crime scene that he hid from prosecutors. The judge made the finding into accusations of evidence-tampering, but declined to hold Le
An Office of Special Counsel report has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Doan violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from partisan political activity while on the job, sources say. [when I was a thug, this was ser
All 56 members of our attorney general's 1982 Harvard Law School class wrote an open letter asking him to resign.
All 56 members of our attorney general's 1982 Harvard Law School class wrote an open letter asking him to resign.
Monica Goodling, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former White House liaison, broke down in tears in a colleague's office as a furor rose about her department's firings of eight federal prosecutors, according to interview excerpts relea
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the police can break into your home, rouse you from sleep, hold you naked at gunpoint, and—even if you're completely innocent—you have no recourse, so long as the warrant was valid.
Fired U.S. Attorney John McKay said Sunday he believes the Justice Department is covering up the real reason for his ouster. “I can see why they would want to come up with an explanation other than the governor’s election for why I would be on suc
A witness for the US government has painted a less-than-menacing picture of a terrorist training camp.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' critics say Gonzales is far more likely to say "yes" _ leaving the Justice Department vulnerable to a politically determined White House. [good review of his tenure]
Six+ Senate Republicans have now called on Gonzales to resign. Specter said he believes support for the no confidence vote is “very substantial,” and that if Gonzales “sees that coming, that he would prefer to avoid that kind of an historical black m
Two dozen current and former members of Congress caught up in criminal investigations or ethics inquiries spent more than $5 million in campaign funds on legal fees during the last 27 months covered by campaign-finance records.
A millionaire couple were arrested on federal charges that they kept two Indonesian women as slaves in their swank Long Island home for more than five years, beating and abusing them and paying them almost nothing.
Instead of people revolting at the ballot box, a better form of civil protest is a revolt in the jury box.
"His testimony could be summed up in one single eloquent phrase," Stewart said. He then played a clip of one of Gonzales' many repetitions: "I don't know." Video
According to Carol Lam's written testimony, the command to fire her in the midst of one of the most wide-reaching government corruption investigations in U.S. history came from "the very highest levels of the government."
The American Prospect talks to Armanda Spataro, an Italian prosecutor in the first-ever trial of those involved in America's "extraordinary rendition" policy.
A Navy lawyer accused of passing secret information about Guantanamo Bay detainees sent a human rights lawyer their names and intelligence about them tucked into a Valentine's Day card, prosecutors said Monday. Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz
Federal prosecutors on Monday accused Jose Padilla and two co-defendants of supporting a sweeping global terrorism network with money, supplies and recruits to fight "violent jihad."
Jose Padilla has been held in solitary confinement for five years, enduring what experts say is some of the harshest treatment of any convicted criminal in the US. Yet he has not been convicted of a crime.
I learned about this rule the hard way. During a recess during jury selection, I approached a prosecutor and asked who at the US Attorney's Office was handling questions from the press. A court security officer confronted me. He accused me of con
When it came to waging holy war, Nuradin Abdi's spirit was willing, according to federal charges filed against him in 2004. But his flesh, all 250-plus pounds of it, was another matter.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and counterparts in seven states called on the company, owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., to hand over the offenders' names and addresses. [Well then you don't need the info
[And you thought the Niger forgeries were amature.] Here is a key piece of evidence in the case against American-born Jose Padilla, whose federal trial begins Monday in Miami — an Al Qaeda job application form. (Click here to read an English translat
Jurors in Jose Padilla's terrorism support trial are scheduled to get a preview of the evidence during opening statements on Monday, but they'll hear virtually nothing about the accusations that led to his arrest.
Your family photos could get you arrested. Just ask one New Jersey grandmother. Three-year-old Sarah M. is either a toddler in her birthday suit playing in the garden, or a nude temptress with a sultry look who requires protection from the culprits
Prosecutors said they would not pursue charges against two men who planted electronic devices around the city as part of a botched advertising campaign after the pair apologized for causing a bomb scare.
