&#39;We have waited so long for justice&#39;
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The historic ruling that Gen Augusto Pinochet is fit to stand trial on murder and kidnapping charges brought victims&#39; relatives onto the streets of Santiago to celebrate.
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Forty years is a long time. It&#39;s a long time if you&#39;re in the desert with Moses -- by Biblical reckoning, the first man to fail to ask for directions -- and it&#39;s a long time
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the time she had to report to the country&#39;s oldest federal prison for women. service of her sentence,&quot; a Federal Bureau of Prisons statement said.
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BAGHDAD -- Judges postponed their verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial yesterday, a long-awaited decision that once held out the hope of healing Iraq's wounds but now threatens to spark even more sectarian violence.
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Some people in England are facing waits of nearly two-and-a-half years for a hearing aid, the RNID says.
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Italy is awaiting the verdict in the long-running corruption trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Three judges in Milan are deliberating and the verdict may be announced later on Friday.
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SANTA MARIA - Michael Jackson&#39;s lawyers are asking the court to continue his Jan. 31 trial date for six weeks to give them time to sort through 14,000 pages of evidence filed by prosecutors in the past two
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Victim's fight could make legal history by extending the deadline for sufferers to seek compensation.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Chem Mey has been waiting a quarter century for Khmer Rouge leaders to be brought to trial. &quot;I&#39;m happy about the news, but I cannot yet put my heart to believe it will happen,&quot; he said
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When the Justices began the Supreme Court term on the first Monday in October 2000, they had no way of knowing that the term, and their lasting legacy, would be dominated by a case that wasn&#39;t even on the docket.
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A measure now moving through Congress is âvitalâ and long overdue, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary.
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After 14 months of sordid headlines and days of hearings that left unanswered questions, Kobe Bryant&#39;s sexual assault trial was to begin with hundreds of people scheduled to arrive for the first wave of jury selection.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: There is no point waiting for tribunals to narrow the gap. The state must force change through the statute book.
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By Anthony Spangler, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 5--A backlog in evidence-testing is creating delays throughout the criminal justice system, leaving prosecutors and local law enforcement authorities struggling to bring some cases to trial.
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The war crimes trial of the ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic resumes after a month-long delay.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - The U.S. military judge hearing the Abu Ghraib abuse case said prosecutors had until Sept...
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Wednesday, judges adjourned the trial for one month to give Milosevic&#39;s lawyers more time to call reluctant witnesses. By Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.