Actor Snipes Loses Bid to Nullify Arrest Warrant
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Actor Wesley Snipes lost a bid on Wednesday to get a federal judge to cancel an arrest warrant stemming from an Indiana paternity case.
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A judge has rejected a defence bid to remove the District-Attorney trying pop star Michael Jackson on child molestation charges. He says there is no proof Santa Barbara County District-Attorney Tom Sneddon had acted improperly or over-zealously.
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A California judge on Tuesday canceled an arrest warrant for actor Daniel Baldwin on car theft charges after he made a scheduled court appearance and pleaded innocent.
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A lawyer's long-shot bid to challenge the U.S. detention of Saddam Hussein as unconstitutional failed Monday after the Supreme Court declined to grant special permission to hear the case.
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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.  - A military judge  denied a motion to dismiss spy charges against a  Syrian-American airman on Monday despite defense arguments the  government had failed to make a case over the past year.
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A California judge on Tuesday  canceled an arrest warrant for actor Daniel Baldwin on car  theft charges after he made a scheduled court appearance and  pleaded innocent.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. Court of Appeal has rejected a Canadian's demand for a judicial review of his extradition to California to face armed-robbery charges.
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The jury in actor Wesley Snipes' tax fraud and conspiracy trial in Florida has retired to consider its verdict.
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CAMDEN, New Jersey  - A U.S. federal judge on Thursday denied bail to five Muslim men accused of plotting an armed attack on New Jersey's Fort Dix army base.
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Actor Wesley Snipes sues New York City over an arrest warrant issued against him in a paternity case.
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In a surprise move in his first appearance since taking over as his own lawyer, Anthony Pellicano, the embattled Hollywood private investigator, withdrew his request for a hearing into allegations that the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors violated his constitutional rights by using his former girlfriend to elicit confidential information, The Los Angeles Times reported. In withdrawing the request, Mr. Pellicano, who is facing trial on wiretapping and conspiracy charges, told Judge Dale S. Fischer of United States District Court, âI donât believe I had any chance of prevailing.â The accusation of prosecutorial misconduct was a crucial element in the defense of the lawyers who previously represented Mr. Pellicano. Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the United States Attorneyâs Office in Los Angeles, expressed satisfaction with the withdrawal and said, âWe have always believed that the motion was unfounded.â The judge plans to begin the trial on Feb. 27.
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A judge dismissed an indictment Friday against convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, ruling that the state waited too long to try him for capital murder in the death of an FBI analyst who was shot in a store parking lot.
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Corrects first and fifth paragraphs to show court documents  allege Snipes did not file income tax returns, rather than that  no taxes were paid.
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Police cannot execute a search warrant in a person's home for possession of less than 4 ounces of marijuana, the Alaska Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
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A federal appeals court rejected a bid to free Barry Bonds' personal trainer, who has been jailed for refusing to testify to a grand jury.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Actor Wesley Snipes pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he illegally claimed millions of dollars in tax refunds and was allowed to quickly return to an African movie set, U.S. prosecutors.
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A recent federal judge rejected the Department of Justice's request to force a defendant to cough up his PGP passphrase. We were unsuccessful in getting the agency to elaborate.