After 26 years, attorneys reveal killer's secret
Now that their client is dead, they are trying to help free innocent man |
Need for court interpreters on rise
Specialized UA training efforts also expand to meet surging demand |
MySpace is World Wide and Public
Online clues now helping to get convictions
Prosecutors use social sites like MySpace to aid cases
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Drug-sentence disparities get review by high court |
| Inmate to spend life in prison for 1988 murder; U.S. Supreme Court had vacated death sentence |
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In Russia, jury verdict carries little weight
Double jeopardy safeguards are foreign concept |
Court: FBI off base in Jefferson file search |
Denial of bail to entrants pushed
Courts unsure how to interpret Proposition 100 |
Man ordered to stay 30 feet away from all Calif. kids under 18 |
| Supreme Court Strikes Down Calif. Sentencing Law |
Prosecutors tell Miss. jurors that reputed Klansman held gun on black victims in 1964 |
| Jury acquits man who says he gave child tummy razzes |
Why wheels of justice roll slowly in Tucson
Reasons are numerous for lengthy trial delays |
Jury-pool selection challenged
4 years of verdicts may face scrutiny |
Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill |
Court
limits TV-sex-sting charges
Without teen victim, prosecutors face an added hurdle |
Draft bill would form tribunals, allow for indefinite
detention |
| Special
consultants now take some doubt out of jury selection |
The
tragic story behind Arizona case on insanity |
Justices
urged to hear Padilla case
Attorneys question
legality of 'enemy combatant' detention |
DNA frees
man after 24 years in prison |
Tribunals
go to high court
Legality of terror
trials at issue |
Restoring
rights to freed felons is gaining |
| Phoenix
case is example of innocent confessing |
High
court rule asked on holding U.S. citizen |
| Court:
Bomb suspect can be held indefinitely |
Guantanamo
Detainee Issues Await New Supreme Court |
Death
sentence by jury that discussed Bible thrown out
Ruling that juries cannot turn to the Bible
for advice during deliberations, a divided Colorado Supreme Court
threw out the death penalty for a convicted murderer because jurors
discussed Bible verses. |
Mexico
frees first group of Indian inmates held unfairly |
| Court:
Immigration status can have role in sentencing |
Land
war goes before Supreme CourtHomeowners ask justices
to block city's use of eminent domain |
| Justices show
inclination to scrap sentencing rules |
Do drug-sniffing
dogs need probable cause?
Supreme Court justices
seem poised to say no |
| 63-year pot sentence puts
focus on mandatory sentences |
Teen
sex case shows flaws of mandatory sentencing |
| Trial by jury becoming an
endangered species |
Man released on
DNA evidence
Imprisoned for 17 years on rape conviction |
| Justices impose
more limits on Miranda |
A mixed verdict
on the terror war
Detainees have right to U.S. courts, justices rule |
| High
court terror cases may reshape civil liberties |
The
pros and cons of statutory rape laws
A 10 year sentence for Marcus Dwayne Dixon |
| Terror
trials test U.S. legal foundation |
High
Court to Mull'Enemy Combatant' Rule |
High
court is asked to hear terrorism case
U.S. citizen held as suspect in scheme to use 'dirty bomb' |
Guantanamo
attorney decries tribunals |
| Supreme
Court to fine tune suspects' rights |
Battlefield
Chicago?
In the Padilla case, a federal court says no |
| Muslim
held 2 months; no charge |
Justices to weigh
Miranda rights |
| Ruling
allows government to keep detainee IDs secret |
Due
process urged for military trials |
Man exonerated
by DNA is freed
Imprisoned 19 years on rape charge |
Miranda
ruling to get another look
High court agrees to address snarl of post-decision possible loopholes |
High
court upholds '3 strikes'
Long sentences deemed suitable |
Supreme Court
upholds long sentences under 3-strikes-you're-out law |
| U.S. Supreme Court could
make Miranda warnings thing of the past |
False confessions get
closer look |
| Feds:
Moussaoui can represent himself -- but shouldn't |
600
subject to secret hearings in wake of 9/11, Justice says |
| Supreme
Court Sides with Inmate Whose Lawyer Slept |
Foreigners
on trial may get warning
Guilty plea can mean expulsion |
| Justices to consider sex offender registry case
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Judge says detainees
in Cuba not entitled to hearings in court |
| Defendants deserve lawyer even if facing minor charge |
Nigerian court
upholds mom's stoning death |
| Judge
rules against secret hearings for all detained Muslims
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Judge not amused by prospective
juror's bill
Not-too-pleasant court date ahead |
The retarded in the dock
THE DEFENDANTS
Justice in a small town |
Anonymous juries become
common, sparking debate |
| Legal system rethinking
how it treats the retarded |
US Court Denies
Taliban Fighter Access to Lawyer |