Prosecutor Opens Defense of Actions in Duke Case
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 12 -- Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, under fire by the North Carolina State Bar for his handling of the sexual assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players, mounted his defense Tuesday, contending it was his duty as a prosecutor to pursue a case...
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The defence case in Conrad Black's trial begins with his former secretary defending his actions over alleged removal of evidence.
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Mike Nifong spent nearly three decades building a reputation as an honest prosecutor. Yet he is seen today as a bane to peers, many of whom feel tarnished by his mistakes in the now-infamous Duke lacrosse rape case.
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The district attorney prosecuting three Duke lacrosse players accused of rape asked a judge Wednesday to compel defense lawyers to tell him whether they hired a pollster to test the mood of potential jurors.
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Defense attorneys for Scott Peterson have begun their counterattack, starting with a concrete expert whose testimony poked holes in a prosecution theory that Peterson
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A lawyer for a Harvard graduate student accused of stabbing a teenager to death said Monday the scholar was defending himself from an "unrelenting" beating, but prosecutors called him a drunken aggressor who had his knife out even before the fight began.
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More than a year after shocking allegations emerged about Duke University's lacrosse team, prosecutor Mike Nifong is heading to trial &#151; as a defendant.
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Attorneys for the three players falsely accused in the Duke University lacrosse rape case are seeking a settlement of about $30 million and several changes to the state's legal process, a person close to the case said early Friday.
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What Troy Davis' case tells up about the dangers of trying to speed up the wheels of justice
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Shortly after receiving a massive pile of raw DNA test data from the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse rape case last fall, defense lawyer Brad Bannon bought a textbook in an attempt to decipher the results.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 12 -- Durham District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, under fire from the North Carolina State Bar for his handling of sexual assault allegations against three Duke lacrosse players last year, appeared in court today to defend his own conduct on grounds it was a prosecutor's duty to...
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Prominent New York attorney Richard D. Emery will assist in defending Brian McNamee against allegations that he lied in the Mitchell Report about Roger Clemensâs use of steroids and human growth hormone.
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Despite the California attorney generalÂs assertion that he has enough evidence to press charges against people inside and outside Hewlett-Packard, a criminal case may be hard to prosecute, legal specialists say.
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Prosecutors are to continue presenting their case against a man accused of killing five women in Suffolk.
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Prosecutors on Thursday plan to divulge evidence they gathered over the last eight months against three young men who will not be charged in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway because it was not sufficient to charge anyone.
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Michael Jackson&#39;s attorney railed against prosecutors, calling the child molestation case against the entertainer &quot;garden variety,&quot; court documents revealed.
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By Ted Vaden, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 4--Most readers don't want The N&O to name complainants in sex crime cases. But most do want the paper to name the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case.