States Flex Prosecutorial Muscle
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Are drug companies using deceptive marketing? Connecticut is investigating.
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Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer&#39;s probe of bid-rigging in the US insurance industry is quickly becoming national in scope as at least three more states opened similar investigations.
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State legislatures, always the undercard of the nation&#039;s elections, are suddenly important.
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"Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era" (Plume. 432 pages. $16), edited by Bill Crawford: In the state where everything is bigger, the death penalty is practically supersized.
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A coalition of legal groups and others opposed to the growing influence of partisan politics in state judicial elections plans to track campaign spending, donations and advertising for judicial elections in 20 states this election cycle.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 17--LONG BEACH -- Her brain clogged with legal jargon, Lindsay Ward delivered an opening statement on a recent weekday with staggering zeal. Her cross-examination was so powerful that it almost fell into the subset of intimidating.
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In high school playoffs, when teams often face opponents from other parts of the state, coaches must do some detective work for scouting reports.
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Republicans have won a string of legal victories over recent days in cases involving important election disputes in battleground states such as Ohio, Florida and Michigan.
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Illinois leads a wave of states focusing on rehabilitation to discourage repeat offenses and relieve costly jails.
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Hoping to solve and prevent more crimes, the federal government and a growing number of states are casting the DNA net wider by taking genetic samples from people accused but not convicted of breaking the law.
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Though laws in every state say government records and meetings must be open to all, reality often falls far short: Laws are sporadically enforced, penalties for failure to comply are mild and violators almost always walk away with nothing more than a reprimand, an Associated Press survey of all 50 states has found.
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Led by California, 11 states are pushing hard to get pemission to set stricter standands than federal law requires.
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The US Supreme Court serves up a pair of tasty cases this week, one involving interstate sales of wine and the other exploring a government ad campaign for beef.
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U.S. News & World Report - The departure of nearly a dozen U.S. attorneys--including some overseeing high-profile politically charged criminal investigations--has sparked congressional inquiries as to whether the Justice Department is politicizing the hiring and firing of federal prosecutors. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty was in the hot seat today answering just that very question before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Even the guilty deserve a competent defense  In your March 2 editorial "In defense of the poor," concerning the  current cap on fees for appointed counsel, you state that the cap was "[n]o  problem, if the person who has to do the time actually did the crime." Under the U.S.
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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.