Justice wants Detroit terror convictions thrown out
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Heralded as &#39;major victory against terror,&#39; US government now says it made too many mistakes. In a move that the BBC reports could not be worse timing for President Bush as he goes in front of the nation Thursday
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Coral Eugene Watts, who confessed to the vicious, random slayings of 13 women, could be out of prison and back on the streets in a year and a half &#151; unless the state of Michigan can put him away for good in a murder trial set to begin on Monday. An appeals court ruling in Texas took decades off his sentence.
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Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse his racketeering and fraud conviction, claiming he did not receive a fair trial.
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Two leaders of an Albany mosque who were snared in an FBI sting involving a fictional terror strike were sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison. The former imam, Yassin Aref, professed innocence before his sentencing and criticized the government's treatment of Muslims.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is asking a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, a dramatic setback for the administration's war on terror on the eve of President Bush's re-election pitch at the GOP convention.    In a late Tuesday night court filing, the department told U.S...
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Risking a showdown with American prosecutors, the British authorities are planning to bring terrorism charges next week against an Egyptian-born
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Five months after terror-conspiracy convictions, prosecutors and the defense still battle over the evidence.
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Plans to increase the time for which terrorist suspects can be held without charge are criticised.
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Lisa Nowak's lawyers want the judge to suppress her statements to police and everything they found in her car. And they want to get rid of the ankle bracelet.
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A defendant in an Old Bailey terror trial should not be jailed just for having "wicked thoughts".
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A judge on Tuesday ordered a retrial for the only person to be convicted of involvement in the 1998 bombing in Omagh Â the deadliest terror strike in Northern Ireland history.
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Abu Hamza, the Muslim cleric wanted by the Americans for alleged terrorist offences, is to face a prosecution in the British courts that will sideline the United States extradition.
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Prosecutors asked a federal judge on   Wednesday to hold off wiping late Enron founder Ken Lay's fraud   and conspiracy convictions from the books until Congress can   consider a U.S. Justice Department proposal to take such power   away from the courts.
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The Justice Department has asked the judge to throw out the ACLU-supported case against the former defense secretary.
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A terror suspect accused of a bomb plot tells a jury he is stopping giving evidence over fears for this family.
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Prosecutors said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty against two men accused of terrorizing the Phoenix area in a series of random shootings.
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Canadian prosecutors say they will appeal the second-degree murder convictions of serial killer Robert Pickton.