Juror Judi DeMarco told defense lawyers that a dispute during deliberations frightened her into agreeing to the guilty verdicts. In a ruling Thursday, ...

Vallandigham died in 1871 at age 50, while serving as a defense lawyer for a man accused of killing someone in a barroom brawl. The lawyer sought to prove ...

BY John Marzulli A judge was stunned when defendant Florin Necula said 'I swallowed a computer thumb drive.' A Brooklyn judge couldn't believe his ears on ...

NORFOLK In 2000, Dirk Williams pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine and received probation. Almost 10 years later, Williams was charged with shooting another man and violating probation. One lawyer, Lyn M. Simmons, played a lead role in both cases - first as Williams' defender, finally as his prosecutor.

Lawyer Thomas Ostly and a former paralegal at his firm are battling each other in a contentious California jury trial. Allison Moreno claims that Ostly fired her when she refused to continue a sexual relationship with him. At trial Tuesday, Moreno sought to make the most of Ostly's odd decision to personally depose her. One observer said it was highly unusual for an accused attorney to take part ...

To dismiss the government's case, Mr. Schar said, the jury would have to believe in a conspiracy in which at least 17 people "are lying to frame defendant ...

Simmons wrote in court papers that she "had no recollection of having represented the defendant some nine plus years ago" until Wiggin filed a motion that ...

Vallandigham died in 1871 at age 50, while serving as a defense lawyer for a man accused of killing someone in a barroom brawl. The lawyer sought to prove ...

Juror Judi DeMarco told defense lawyers that a dispute during deliberations frightened her into agreeing to the guilty verdicts. In a ruling Thursday, ...

Houston defense lawyer Pat McCann, past president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, said he was encouraged that a majority of judges signed ...

“This guy has more background in (criminal law) than most lawyers and somehow he became the accidentally corrupt governor,” the prosecutor declared. “It's no one's job to stop him from committing a crime but the defendant's. ...

Proposed changes to the Ethics Rules applicable to all lawyers licensed to practice in the State of Texas have been made by the Texas Supreme Court. You can. ... giving an example in an attorney's duty to protect the integrity of the judicial system, “… a prosecutor's obligation in a criminal case extends for the life of a wrongfully convicted criminal defendant, in that remedial measures could remove a wrongful conviction from the defendant's record.” ...

When a prosecutor comments on a defendant's decision not to testify. Photo from website of U.S. District Court (W.D. Mi.). By Jon Katz, a criminal defense and DWI defense lawyer practicing in Fairfax County , Virginia , Montgomery ...

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Walk to Madison Avenue shopping for a party Saturday afternoon with a beautiful young actress recently met, have suddenly mounted within its elegant store.