Pa. Prosecutors Restricts Jury Statements
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has prohibited prosecutors in the state from urging jurors to "send a message" with their verdicts.
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EAGLE, Colo. -- Defense attorneys argued in a court filing that Kobe Bryant's statements to investigators after the basketball player was accused of rape last summer should be kept secret because it is not certain they will be used in his trial.
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A Pennsylvania coroner faces charges after allegedly giving local reporters access to a county 911 computer system, giving them improper access to confidential police information that they then used for their news stories.
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There's not much middle ground in the legal community when it comes to opinions of local prosecutor Mike Nifong's most famous case.
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The Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether a jury unfairly sentenced a Pennsylvania man to death on a 17-year-old murder conviction in a case expected to clarify death penalty standards for attorney conduct and jury instructions.
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Prosecutors who spent more than three years on the CIA leak case, like the defense lawyers on the other wide, have been given just three hours to make their final arguments to jurors.
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Jurors asked for a definition of "reasonable doubt" as they completed a shortened, eighth day of deliberations Friday in the perjury trial of ex-White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - A judge ruled the state can suspend the driver's license of a man who lost his driving privileges after his doctor reported to police that he drank a six-pack of beer a day...
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Several jurors who convicted a black trash collector in the slaying of a white fashion writer made disparaging racial remarks during deliberations, which at one point became so heated two jurors had to be separated, according to documents filed Tuesday.
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Every month, hundreds of people are summoned to courts across the nation&#39;s most populous county for a public scolding. It&#39;s no surprise that only a handful show up -- after all, they are expert at that all-American custom: dodging jury duty.
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CHICAGO, June 19 -- Conrad Black's lawyer accused prosecutors Tuesday of trying to prejudice jurors against the media mogul by focusing on his affluent lifestyle while basing their racketeering and fraud case on the word of a former business partner he described as "a proven liar."
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Prosecutors and Defense attorneys have just three hours to give their final statements
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A jury resumed deliberations in the perjury trial of former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby on Monday after the judge declined to answer their question about the burden of proof needed to find him guilty.
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John W. Warner of Virginia said include whether suspects can be excluded from their trials and what types of evidence would be admissible.
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TOMS RIVER, NJ  - A judge on Wednesday gave prosecutors permission to play to a jury an audiotape of a murder victim pleading for her life, ending a decade-old ban on publicly airing the tape.
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Attorneys for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby rested their defense in his perjury trial yesterday after giving jurors a stripped-down version of their case that the vice president's then-chief of staff was too preoccupied with sensitive national security issues in 2003 to remember conversations he had...
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The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether a murder victim's prior statements can be used against her killer in a case that tests the limits of a defendant's constitutional right to confront witnesses.