Jailed 17 Years, Long Island Man Wins Second Trial
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A state appeals court overturned the conviction of Martin H. Tankleff in the grisly murders of his parents in 1988.
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A jury gave a 17-year-old Texan a 90-year jail sentence on Monday for his part in a brutal and racially motivated assault on a Hispanic youth.
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Two more young men have been freed after serving time in jail for a case involving a 17-year-old who had consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl.
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CROWN POINT, Ind. - Officials are at a loss to explain how they allowed a homeless, mentally ill man accused of stealing a soda to languish in jail for 17 months.
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The man serving a life sentence for the murders of a mother and her daughter is to begin his second bid at the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction.
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A man acquitted of a murder 17 years ago finally admits his guilt after a change in the double jeopardy law.
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The actor was convicted on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns or to pay taxes in the mixed verdict. He faces up to three years in prison.
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A court Wednesday convicted an author of directing the killing of a businessman in a crime that bore eerie similarities to a murder he described in a novel three years later.
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A German court yesterday sentenced a second member of one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings to three years prison and handed down a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.
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THREE Irishmen acquitted by a Colombian judge of training Marxist guerrillas in IRA-style terrorist warfare were found guilty on appeal and sentenced to up to 17Â½ years imprisonment yesterday.
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A black man accused of killing a white teen during a racially charged confrontation outside his home was convicted of second-degree manslaughter Saturday.
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Former Credit Suisse First Boston (NYSE: CSR) investment banker Frank Quattrone&#39;s gamble on a jury trial came to a close yesterday when he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for obstruction of justice.
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consecutive life terms, plus another 40 years, by an Israeli civil court that found him guilty of five cases of murder of innocent citizens, attempted murder and membership in a terror organization.
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MIAMI -- Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations.
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A man who served 27 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned was awarded &#36;1.4 million Wednesday, Maryland's largest award for a wrongful conviction.
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Three men who have been linked to the Irish republican movement were sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday by a top Colombian court
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A man who injured nine people in a knife attack at a Moscow synagogue was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a second trial, Russian news agencies reported.