Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions Monday when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law approving the controversial method's use when no lethal-injection drugs are available.
Benito Vasquez-Hernandez, is being held as a material witness in a murder case. The 59-year-old lives in a tiny cinderblock encased cell. He wears an orange jumpsuit and has been granted the identical freedoms of a killer.
Benson had originally been facing up to 180 days in jail and a license suspension on a "super drunk" charge after he was found slumped behind the wheel of his city-issued 2008 Ford Crown Victoria at a traffic signal on the southbound Southfield s
The Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to hold the Constitution allows for freestanding claims of innocence, that is, the right to be let out of prison simply because you didn't do it, without any other "technical" violation to back up your
Criminal defense attorneys have long objected to "experts" produced at trials by the Justice Department who often seem to closely follow trial theories rather than scientific or forensic data. I have handled cases where experts used by the Justic
A man convicted of fatally stabbing a Pittsburgh police dog has been sentenced to 17 years, 9 months to 44 years in prison.
A judge said Tuesday that John Lewis Rush must also serve 8 years of probation following his release.
Morton remained in prison for the next 25 years, Anderson's career flourished, and he eventually became a judge. Anderson pled to criminal contempt, gives up his law license, 500 hours of community service, and 10 days in jail.
Russia's security service head said Saturday that two suspects in the killing of leading opposition figure Boris Nemtsov have been detained. Russian news reports later cited an official as saying one of them had served with police troops in Chechnya.
Harris said Kelly is a senior assistant public defender who is a zealot for her clients and has a high percentage of winning cases. Harris said in court papers that Weill presented no specific misconduct.
Dotcom's lawyers pointed out, as many of us have, that there is no secondary copyright infringement under criminal law, but the judge insists that there's enough to show "conspiracy to commit copyright infringement."
A San Diego man with no criminal record is facing a possible life term in prison for flashing gang signs in some Facebook photos. Aaron Harvey and 14 other men, including the rapper Tiny Doo, were charged under an obscure California law
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of mass U.S. surveillance programs, said on Wednesday he is not being offered a fair trial if he returns to the United States.
That's where he used to work, before he was falsely tarred a child rapist because Covington cop Joanne Rigney, at the behest of social worker Alison Campbell, decided to destroy him.
In a blunt opening statement at the nation's biggest terrorism trial in nearly 20 years, Tsarnaev's own lawyer flatly told a jury that the 21-year-old former college student committed the crime.
"It WAS him," said defense attorney Judy Clarke, one
An ex-jailer from the Santa Clara county jail says at the behest of police and prosecutors he "routinely" planted jailhouse informants in cells with inmates awaiting trial in order to actively extract information that could be used against them.
If not for cell phone video, 47-year-old disabled veteran Douglas Dendinger could be going to prison -- because of an apparent coordinated effort by Washington Parish, La. cops and prosecutors who falsely accused him of battery and witness intimidat
In affidavits supplied to Carty's current defense team last year, in 2014, a DEA agent and two of Carty's co-defendants allege that Harris County prosecutors crossed ethical boundaries and threatened them to ensure Carty's conviction.
JUST BEFORE DAWN, on the unseasonably warm morning of February 24, 1992, a small house caught fire in Old Hickory, Tennessee, a few miles northeast of Nashville. The one-story cinderblock home,
Former Marine Eddie Ray Routh shot to death famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a Texas shooting range in February 2013.
"... not only do police officers sometimes commit crimes, but often times those criminal cops then benefit from a chain of command and prosecutors who conspire against their victims to cover up their crimes."
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