Judge tosses mob hit case, citing delay
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Saying too much time had passed, a judge threw out the murder case against a Las Vegas limousine driver accused in a 1990 gangland slaying authorities say was aided by a corrupt FBI agent.
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Duane "Dog" Chapman's court hearing in Mexico that could set him free or order his pending extradition and criminal case to proceed has been postponed.
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A judge dropped murder and arson charges against a man accused of setting his house on fire, killing his wife and son, because prosecutors failed to bring him to trial quickly.
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A Rome judge has suspended until February a hearing on whether to try a U.S. soldier for shooting dead an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq last year while he was escorting a freed hostage to safety.
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A U.S. judge on Tuesday delayed the  arraignment of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the most powerful  drug lord ever extradited by Colombia, for a month to give his  lawyer time to figure out how he will be paid.
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A judge postpones the trial date for a lawsuit brought by Michael Jackson over an alleged secret recording.
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A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Friday against an international financial database used by the government to track terrorist funding, finding no proof that money transfers by two Americans were targeted.
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A prosecutor has appealed a decision to keep the judge in the case of seven police officers accused of a fatal post-Katrina shooting, further delaying the trial, a defense lawyer said.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - The judge in Michael  Jackson's child molestation trial told prospective jurors on  Monday the case had been postponed for a week following a death  in the family of the pop star's lead attorney.
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HOUSTON A judge in Houston has delayed the March trial of five former executives from Enron&#39;s defunct broadband unit. US District Judge Vanessa Gilmore granted the month-long postponement because a lawyer
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.
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The murder trial of a man accused of a shooting spree that began in a courthouse has been suspended for about a month by the judge, who cited state delays in covering some defense expenses.
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FAIRFAX, Va. - 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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A judge has tossed out a lawsuit alleging that about 400 retired federal drug agents were defamed by a false statement on screen at the end of the film "American Gangster."
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A federal judge on Saturday denied a tobacco industry request to delay the government's &#36;280 billion racketeering case against the industry which is scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 21.
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A federal judge has postponed his decision on PeopleSoft&#39;s last hostile takeover defense against Oracle until next month. Delaware Chancery Court Judge Leo Strine said he would need more information from both
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A Los Angeles judge Monday postponed the start of actor Robert Blake&#39;s murder trial following the theft last week of his lawyer&#39;s computer.