A Mississippi schoolteacher was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for shooting and stabbing to death her lover's pregnant fiancee in 2006.
A California couple charged with a combined 29 felony counts in connection with the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard appeared in court for a bond hearing Monday.
Three men were found guilty Monday of plotting to blow up planes on flights between Britain and North America, Woolwich Crown Court in London said.
Former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty Thursday to a weapons charge stemming from a shooting incident at a nightclub last year, the Manhattan district attorney said.
Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on weapons charges stemming from an incident last November in which Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a New York nightclub, prosecutors announced Monday.
The five remaining defendants in the racially charged "Jena Six" case will appear in court Friday and are expected to enter a plea, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said.
A plea deal has been reached in the assault case against singer Chris Brown, defense attorney Mark Geragos said in a hearing Monday.
A Somali suspect in the hijacking of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama last month pleaded not guilty to 10 counts including piracy, hostage-taking, and firearms charges in U.S. District Court in New York on Thursday.
A former handyman has pleaded guilty in the 2007 death of California newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey after agreeing to testify against the man accused of ordering the killing, the Alameda County deputy district attorney said.
A fomer Pennsylvania high school football player was acquitted of murder Friday in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant last summer.
A Mississippi schoolteacher was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for shooting and stabbing to death her lover's pregnant fiancee in 2006.
A California couple charged with a combined 29 felony counts in connection with the kidnapping and rape of Jaycee Dugard appeared in court for a bond hearing Monday.
Three men were found guilty Monday of plotting to blow up planes on flights between Britain and North America, Woolwich Crown Court in London said.
Former NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty Thursday to a weapons charge stemming from a shooting incident at a nightclub last year, the Manhattan district attorney said.
Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on weapons charges stemming from an incident last November in which Burress accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a New York nightclub, prosecutors announced Monday.
The five remaining defendants in the racially charged "Jena Six" case will appear in court Friday and are expected to enter a plea, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said.
A plea deal has been reached in the assault case against singer Chris Brown, defense attorney Mark Geragos said in a hearing Monday.
A Somali suspect in the hijacking of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama last month pleaded not guilty to 10 counts including piracy, hostage-taking, and firearms charges in U.S. District Court in New York on Thursday.
A former handyman has pleaded guilty in the 2007 death of California newspaper editor Chauncey Bailey after agreeing to testify against the man accused of ordering the killing, the Alameda County deputy district attorney said.
A fomer Pennsylvania high school football player was acquitted of murder Friday in the beating death of a Mexican immigrant last summer.
After about 30 hours of deliberation, a jury on Monday convicted music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago.
He's expected to plead not guilty Monday - unless a deal has been struck with DAs
The on-again, off-again jury deliberations at Phil Spector's Los Angeles murder retrial are on again.
It's impossible to rule out the possibility that an actress committed suicide in music producer Phil Spector's home, and that he is being unjustly accused in her death, Spector's defense attorney told jurors in closing arguments Tuesday.
A six-man, six-woman jury began deliberating Thursday whether music producer Phil Spector is responsible for the death six years ago of an actress in his home.
The music producer's attorney insists the victim killed herself six years ago
Music producer Phil Spector, on trial for the second time in connection with the 2003 death of an actress at his home, is "a very dangerous man," a prosecutor told jurors Monday.
After deliberating for only 45 minutes, a jury convicted an Alabama man Thursday of throwing his four children off a Gulf Coast bridge in January 2008, according to prosecutors.
A jury in Austria has found Josef Fritzl guilty of raping and imprisoning his daughter for more than two decades and sentenced him to life in prison.
A Buffalo, New York-area man accused of beheading his estranged wife pleaded not guilty Friday to a murder charge, according to the district attorney.
Accused investment swindler Bernard L. Madoff will plead guilty later this week to 11 counts that could bring a sentence of 150 years in prison, one of his attorneys told CNN.
Bernard Madoff's defense attorney Ira Lee Sorkin tells CNN he has received death threats and virulently anti-Semitic hate mail.
Three former leaders of Sierra Leone's brutal Revolutionary United Front guerrilla movement were found guilty Wednesday of crimes against humanity including murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages, the Special Court for Sierra Leone announced.
Lillo Brancato Jr., an actor who appeared in "The Sopranos," was acquitted of the 2005 killing an off-duty New York City police officer but found guilty of attempted burglary.
Five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted on voluntary manslaughter and other charges in connection with killings in Iraq were released on their own recognizance Monday after a court hearing.
Former gridiron great O.J. Simpson will serve at least nine years in prison for his role in an armed confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel in 2007.
John "Junior" Gotti's lawyers are asking a federal judge in Florida to move his murder conspiracy and racketeering trial to New York.
Calling him "arrogant and defiant," a Wayne County Circuit Judge on Tuesday sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to four months in jail with no early release under the terms of a plea deal.
Sen. Ted Stevens repeatedly asked for invoices to cover home renovations and otherwise complied with Senate rules on accepting and reporting gifts of value, his defense attorney said in closing arguments Tuesday.
O.J. Simpson faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison after he and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart were found guilty on 12 charges, including armed robbery and kidnapping.
Thirteen years to the day after a Los Angeles jury acquitted him of two murders, another jury began deliberations Friday in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping trial.
A federal judge Thursday rejected a motion by defense attorneys asking him to either to declare a mistrial in the criminal case against Sen. Ted Stevens or dismiss the indictment against him.
A day of repeated objections, admonitions, lawyer-judge conferences in chambers and frayed nerves in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery trial ended late Tuesday with a cliffhanger.
O.J. Simpson's trial on armed robbery and kidnapping charges resumed Tuesday with the prosecution's first witness back on the stand, apparently fully recovered from chest pain.
The charge is robbery, not murder, but 13 years after the so-called "Trial of the Century" ended with his acquittal, O.J. Simpson is back in court. Again.
Three men charged in an alleged plot to explode bombs on trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States and Canada were convicted Monday of conspiracy to murder.
Potential jurors in O.J. Simpson's robbery and kidnapping trial were under the microscope Tuesday as jury selection continued, with at least one saying she believed that the former professional football player was guilty of murder, despite his acquittal in a 1995 trial.
Jury selection in O.J. Simpson's trial on robbery and kidnapping charges started Monday, with the judge seeking prospective jurors who are not influenced by his 1995 murder trial.
Embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not plead guilty Wednesday in connection with his text message scandal, a representative for a Michigan prosecutor said, despite an earlier statement that said he would.
On the eve of his trial, prosecutors have struck 30 counts from an indictment charging an up-and-coming fashion designer with luring aspiring models via the Internet and sexually assaulting them.
A fourth co-defendant pleaded guilty Monday in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery and kidnapping case
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.
Opening arguments began yesterday in Ocala, Fla., on a tax-fraud case that could land actor Wesley Snipes in jail for up to 16 years.
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.
Developments in the retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez from March 18-22, 1996
Developments in the retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez from October 11-October 13, 1995:
Profiles of the key attorneys in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson:
Developments in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson from July 5-7, 1995
Developments in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson from March 27-31, 1995
Developments in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson from January 23-27, 1995
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 on Wednesday to 12 felony charges that could send him to prison for life.
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.
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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.
Two co-defendants of Michael Vick say the NFL star helped execute dogs that didn't fight well, according to federal court documents.
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.
After three and a half long months, the Enron trial has drawn to a close.
A divided Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a U.S. citizen held until recently as an "enemy combatant" without traditional legal rights.
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.
A psychiatrist testified Thursday that the voice that a then-12-year-old boy heard in his head telling him to kill his grandparents was his own.
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.
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