A detective and prosecutors did not commit crimes when they put together a murder case against a man whose conviction was later overturned on DNA evidence, a special prosecutor said Tuesday.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state has the right to prevent a possibly schizophrenic defendant from serving as his own lawyer in a criminal court.
A jury deliberated for most of the day Tuesday without deciding whether or not to spare the life of a former Ohio police officer who killed his pregnant girlfriend and tearfully asked them for mercy.
In the highest-profile tax-protest trial in years, Wesley Snipes was acquitted late last week by a federal jury on felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy.
O.J. Simpson was taken into custody in Miami, Florida, on allegations that he violated terms of his bail by trying to talk a co-defendant out of cooperating in a Las Vegas armed robbery case, court documents say.
Shortly after Andrea Yates was arrested for methodically drowning her five children in the bathtub, she told an investigator that she was a bad mother who had doomed her young to eternal damnation, and the only way she knew to save them was to kill them.
A detective and prosecutors did not commit crimes when they put together a murder case against a man whose conviction was later overturned on DNA evidence, a special prosecutor said Tuesday.
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state has the right to prevent a possibly schizophrenic defendant from serving as his own lawyer in a criminal court.
A jury deliberated for most of the day Tuesday without deciding whether or not to spare the life of a former Ohio police officer who killed his pregnant girlfriend and tearfully asked them for mercy.
In the highest-profile tax-protest trial in years, Wesley Snipes was acquitted late last week by a federal jury on felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy.
O.J. Simpson was taken into custody in Miami, Florida, on allegations that he violated terms of his bail by trying to talk a co-defendant out of cooperating in a Las Vegas armed robbery case, court documents say.
Shortly after Andrea Yates was arrested for methodically drowning her five children in the bathtub, she told an investigator that she was a bad mother who had doomed her young to eternal damnation, and the only way she knew to save them was to kill them.
Representing himself in his murder trial, Dr. Jack Kevorkian argued in his opening statement that he did not intend to kill Thomas Youk, but rather felt compelled to do so because his duty as a physician demanded it.
A prosecutor promised Wednesday to reveal "the real Phil Spector" as a dangerous gun nut whose "very rich history of violence" culminated in the alleged murder of an actress at his mansion.
Her testimony lasted just two minutes, but the woman likely to be the final witness for Phil Spector's defense presented jurors Wednesday with a side of the music legend unheard of in the previous four months of his murder trial -- that of a responsible, devoted father.
The high-profile lawyer who once headed Phil Spector's legal team walked away from his defense entirely Monday after the music legend refused to let him deliver a closing argument at his murder trial.
O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony charges of kidnapping and armed robbery stemming from an alleged heist of sports memorabilia from a Las Vegas hotel room in September.
O.J. Simpson must stand trial on charges that could send him to prison for life, Las Vegas Township Justice of the Peace Joseph Bonaventure ordered Wednesday.
One of the men who took a plea deal in exchange for his testimony in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case said Friday that he saw another co-defendant pull a gun when the two accompanied Simpson into a hotel room.
The accused in the Madrid train bombing are scheduled to hear the verdicts and sentencing on Wednesday morning. All of the 28 defendants are men except for one Spanish woman. All the defendants have pleaded not guilty during the trial.
Two co-defendants in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case in Las Vegas, Nevada, have agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges and testify against the former football star, officials said Monday.
Sen. Larry Craig said a Wednesday hearing to overturn his guilty plea stemming from an airport sex sting was "the first major step in the legal effort to clear my name."
By pleading guilty, Michael Vick admits to committing the criminal charges alleged by the government, that he raises no defenses, and that he is prepared for his punishment.
Michael Vick's guilty plea to a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge will cap one of the most rapid and startling falls from stardom in U.S. sports history.
One of the co-defendants in the Michael Vick federal dogfighting case pleaded guilty on Monday and pledged to fully cooperate with prosecutors. Tony Taylor, 34, of Hampton, Virginia, entered the guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Richmond. He will be sentenced December 14.
Jurors weighing the fate of Canadian-born former tycoon Conrad Black and three other defendants failed to reach a verdict Tuesday after nine days of deliberations.
A Spanish court convicted three Pakistani-born men of collaborating with a terrorist group and sentenced each to five years in prison, according to a copy of the sentence viewed by CNN on Tuesday.
Mary Winkler was found guilty of the voluntary manslaughter Thursday in the 2006 slaying of her preacher husband, Matthew, after jurors rejected more serious murder charges that could have sent her to prison for the rest of her life.
It had been the most anticipated moment of the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney -- testimony from a sitting vice president, the first time ever in a criminal trial.
Defense attorneys in a military rape-murder hearing on Tuesday emphasized the stress defendants faced, with one private testifying that soldiers consumed whiskey and painkillers to try to cope with duty in Iraq.
The wait is on for the verdict in the trial against Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, as the jury ended its second day of deliberation.
They stand together against the world: the poster boys of corporate malfeasance, the yin-and-yang former CEOs of Enron finally coming to trial in a drab federal courtroom in downtown Houston. But in truth, Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling never much cared for one another. The charming Lay wasn't comfortable with Skilling's sharp edges; the brainy Skilling considered Lay a lightweight glad-hander.
They stand together against the world: the poster boys of corporate malfeasance, the yin-and-yang former CEOs of Enron finally coming to trial in a drab federal courtroom in downtown Houston. But i...
Jose Padilla, the terror suspect classified as an "enemy combatant" and held without charges for more than three years, will wait until next week to begin his defense in a civilian court.
Miami lawyer Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney and frequent CNN guest analyst, takes a wry look at the best and worst the legal world had to offer in 2005.
Defense attorneys for several terror suspects prosecuted by the Justice Department said Wednesday they plan to file court motions questioning the legality of a National Security Agency surveillance project.
Former Enron accounting chief Richard Causey's guilty plea to securities fraud Wednesday for his role in the financial scandal that drove the energy company into bankruptcy in 2001 is being hailed as a big win for the government in their case against former top executives at Enron.
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, one of two foreign lawyers on Saddam Hussein's defense team, said Monday it would be "very difficult" for the deposed Iraqi dictator's trial to be fair.
Robert Blake on Friday was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of his slain wife and ordered by a jury to pay her children $30 million in damages.
A lawyer for the 80-year-old Baptist preacher accused of masterminding the Ku Klux Klan killings of three civil rights workers in 1964 conceded to a jury Wednesday that his client belonged to the racist group.
Michael Jackson's defense attorneys may finish presenting their case to a jury this week as the singer's child molestation trial hurtles toward the finish line.
U.S. military officials announced they have scheduled the equivalent of a grand jury hearing next week for a reservist whose guilty plea in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal was rejected earlier this month.
The judge in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial issued a ruling Wednesday that could discourage the defense from bringing in the singer's famous friends to vouch for his character.
A military judge on Wednesday threw out Army Pfc. Lynndie England's guilty plea in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, declaring a mistrial after testimony suggested England did not know her actions were wrong.
Defendants facing the possibility of the death penalty frequently plead guilty in exchange for a promise from the government not to seek execution. The practice is unsettling, as the threat of death may induce an innocent person to plead guilty simply to save his skin.
The residents of Danville, an upscale suburb of perennially foggy San Francisco, like to boast that in their small city the sun shines 300 days a year.
A Florida jury found William Fairchild guilty on seven of eight charges Wednesday for a bizarre crime spree that included dressing up as a sheriff's deputy, kidnapping a drug dealer and conducting a fake raid at the home of the dealer's family to find money, drugs and a car that had been traded for crack cocaine.
The largest corporate collapse in Australian history has claimed another scalp with a former top executive of HIH Insurance pleading guilty to three criminal charges.
The fate of Robert Blake is now in the hands of five men and seven women who began deliberating late last week in the 71-year-old actor's murder trial.
Two of those charged in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq entered guilty pleas as part of plea agreements that were accepted Tuesday by a military judge at Fort Hood, Texas, an Army spokesman said.
One of the U.S. soldiers charged in the Iraq prison abuse scandal has reached agreement on a plea deal with U.S. military officials, according to the attorney for the soldier.
The defense rested Thursday in the court-martial of Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. without the accused leader of prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib taking the stand.
The last six months have been relatively quiet in the world of corporate scandals, with only Martha Stewart grabbing headlines. The lull came to an end this week in courthouses in Alabama and New York.
The last six months have been relatively quiet in the world of corporate scandals. Only Martha Stewart, who on Monday marked the third anniversary of the stock sale that landed her behind bars, has been dominating headlines.
Portions of Robert Blake's jailhouse interview with ABC will be admitted as evidence during the actor's murder trial, slated to begin next week, a judge ruled Wednesday.
A jury will resume deliberations Monday over whether Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his pregnant wife and unborn son nearly two years ago, should die or spend the rest of his life in prison.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the sexual assault trial of NBA star Kobe Bryant wrapped up the third day of jury selection Tuesday, having questioned 164 potential jurors behind closed doors.
Marc Dutroux, on trial in a child rape and murder case that has transfixed Belgium for almost a decade, has rejected the most serious charges against him in his final plea to jurors.
Former Enron Corp. finance chief Andrew Fastow is likely to be more forthcoming with prosecutors about his ex-bosses, Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay, now that his wife's plea deal has been accepted by a federal judge, legal experts said Thursday.
The jury in the trial of ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski failed to reach a verdict for a ninth day Tuesday, after the judge denied yet another motion for a mistrial to end the six-month long corruption case.
In closing arguments in the Martha Stewart trial Monday, the defense lawyer for Stewart's former broker and co-defendant Peter Bacanovic said the prosecution's case was a house of cards.
Prosecutors in the Martha Stewart criminal trial are expected to call their star witness on Thursday, a day after the judge presiding over the case postponed court proceedings due to a snow storm in the Northeast.
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh's lawyer said Monday there was never any offer by his client to make a plea deal with the state attorney's office investigating Limbaugh on charges of "doctor shopping."
As the final phase of jury selection in the Martha Stewart case was set to begin Tuesday, the attorney for co-defendant Peter Bacanovic has ruled out any chance for a last-minute plea bargain.
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