Lawyer Reveals Secret, Toppling Death Sentence
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A lawyer who believed that prosecutors had committed misconduct stayed silent for 10 years due to ethics rules.
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Aaron Patterson's account of being convicted of two murders and tortured by police helped persuade a governor to set him free and empty Illinois' death row.
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A Briton who spent 18 years in jail in Pakistan has told of the moment he was sentenced to death.Comment
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Some of IT's biggest profits are found in the courtroom.
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Dell L. Dailey's life has been one long string of secrets.
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A jury Thursday convicted a once-prominent attorney who lived a pampered, lavish lifestyle for stealing millions from clients including low-income tenants, disabled children and struggling immigrants.
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TAMPA, Florida, Sep 26 (IPS) - An influential lawyer's group in the United  States has strongly criticised Florida's death penalty  system, calling it ambiguous and secretive.
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A Brit who spent 18 years on Pakistan's death row has spoken of his &quot;bolt of shock and fear&quot; when he was sentenced, and then of his long prison life, punctuated by hearing other men hang.
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Aaron Patterson's account of being falsely convicted of two murders and tortured by police helped persuade a governor to set him free and empty Illinois' death row.
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A former Protestant guerrilla was sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for the murder of Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane, one of the most controversial killings in
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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A prosecutor set to deliver her opening statement in the slaying of a multimillionaire investment banker instead stunned a packed courtroom Wednesday, alleging the defendant had threatened her children, tried to tamper with a juror and admitted committing the crime.
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How a ticket led to 1 year in prison.
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A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
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A lawyer for a condemned prisoner asserted that there is an unacceptable risk of agony in Kentuckyâs procedure, but justices were skeptical.
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress, and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the inmates have to sleep in shifts.
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An appeals court in Ohio is reported to have overturned the conviction and death sentence on a British man.