Lawyer's killers to be sentenced
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Two men found guilty of stabbing a City lawyer to death are due to be sentenced.
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Hundreds of lawyers who claim that people were injured or killed by the painkiller Vioxx plan to lay groundwork for a legal assault against the drug's maker, Merck.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 9 -- Calling him &quot;the worst kind of monster&quot; and undeserving of sympathy, a prosecutor urged jurors to sentence Scott Peterson to death for murdering his pregnant wife before the panel began deciding his punishment Thursday.
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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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The justice department is set to overturn the convictions of three men after it emerged mistakes were made in the case.
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The prosecution will tell jurors Scott Peterson is a manipulative, selfish, callous man who murdered his wife and their unborn child and destroyed the lives of so many others.
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The murderer of an entire family is to apply to the Court of Appeal for leave to try to get his conviction overturned.
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William Lerach, a lawyer who won billions of dollars for shareholders suing corporations, will plead guilty to criminal conspiracy and go to prison for his involvement in a kickbacks scheme at his former law firm, Milberg Weiss LLP, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Lawyers re-create their version of the killing scene for the jury in the murder trial of actor Robert Blake.
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Mark Geragos&#39; task now is to save the life of his client, a convicted double murderer facing a possible death sentence. His problem is that the usual defense approach to the penalty phase of a capital case
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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk in 2006 is due to begin.
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A woman guilty of murdering her husband will "serve every day of her 20-year sentence," a judge says.
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Prosecutors said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty against a woman convicted of fatally poisoning her husband with antifreeze and accused of killing a boyfriend the same way.
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A loyalist who confessed in court to murdering Catholic solicitor Pat Finucane is to be sentenced on Thursday.
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A class-action lawyer's lenient plea deal sends a bad message.
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The prosecutor in the trial of the 21 July terror suspects tells the jury that the men are guilty of conspiracy to murder.
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A federal appeals court on Friday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a death row inmate convicted of killing three men 26 years ago.