Spanish judge shelves Guatemalan genocide probe
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A Spanish judge probing genocide over 36 years of civil war that left some 200,000 people dead or "disappeared" in Guatemala shelved his quest Wednesday, a court official told AFP.
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A US judge rejects a call for a separate inquiry into the CIA's destruction of tapes of terror suspects being interrogated.
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by outed spy Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband against Vice President Dick Cheney and other top Bush administration officials.
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A Roman Catholic priest charged with directing the killing of 2,000 of his parishioners inthe 1994 Rwandan genocide has boycotted the trial proceedings by the United
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The trial of a priest accused of involvement in the Rwandan genocide has been halted for a day, after protests at the UN war crimes court in Tanzania.
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A judge refused Wednesday to grant a second request by the defense to dismiss the child pornography case against the one-time suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.
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A judge has dropped criminal charges against the daughter of Peru's fugitive ex-President Alberto Fujimori that carried a sentence of five years in prison.
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A federal judge today refused to order a special review of the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes, saying there was no evidence that the Bush administration defied court orders and that Justice Department prosecutors should be allowed to proceed with their own investigation into the ma...
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A Guatemalan ex-dictator and seven other former officials avoided extradition to Spain to face charges for genocide committed in the country's 36-year civil war, according to a court ruling made public on Monday.
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The French judge supposed to be looking into allegations of evidence-tampering in the Princess Diana death enquiry has been taken off the case after being accused of inaction.
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The investigation that shook cycling ended without indictments Monday when the judge said he could not charge anyone because Spain's new doping law was not in place when the case broke last May.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A military judge on Monday  rejected a motion to dismiss charges against the suspected  ringleader of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison after lawyers  questioned whether he could get a fair trial.
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SANTIAGO, Chile A Chilean judge questioned Gen. Augusto Pinochet yesterday about the disappearance of leftist political opponents during his 1973-90 dictatorship, but cut the interrogation short because of the former leader&#39;s poor health.
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A federal judge Thursday dismissed charges against one of three people on trial in a human smuggling attempt that left 19 illegal immigrants dead.
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A U.S. judge denied a request on Friday from Poland's government to extradite a Chicago businessman for allegedly soliciting the murder of a former Warsaw police chief, denouncing the key witness as "a known scoundrel" and chastising prosecutors over faulty evidence.
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A Spanish judge has taken away visiting rights from a man who took his 10-year-old son to a running of the bulls during the annual Pamplona festival last week, Spanish media reported Tuesday.
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Lawyers for Gen. Augusto Pinochet moved Wednesday to prevent questioning of the former dictator by a judge about the disappearance of opponents during his 17-year reign.