The Guardian’s bombshell about a secretive “black site” holding facility in Chicago where suspects are allegedly shackled, beaten and held for long periods of time without access to their lawyers,…
HOUSTON — Lawyers for Eddie Ray Routh, the former Marine sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for murdering Chris Kyle, the Navy SEAL marksman whose autobiography inspired the movie…
BOSTON — A three-judge federal appeals panel on Thursday sharply questioned lawyers in the marathon bombing case, challenging assumptions about the ability of prospective jurors to be impartial as the…
One of Aaron Hernandez’s lawyers decided on Thursday that a murder trial is as good a place as any to make a “deflategate” joke. – “In hindsight, that was a…
WASHINGTON — In highly unusual testimony inside the federal supermax prison, a former operative for Al Qaeda has described prominent members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family as major donors to…
A team of internationally renowned war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts has found “direct evidence” of “systematic torture and killing” by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the lawyers on…
The Justice Department, which accused S.&P. of inflating the ratings of mortgage investments that spurred the 2008 financial meltdown, sent so many prosecutors to the negotiation that they formed an…
The revelations, which came in the opening day of an inquest into the 16-hour siege of a central Sydney cafe, are likely to further fuel questions about how New South…
At issue before the court is the efficacy of one of the drugs, midazolam, used in Oklahoma’s three drug protocol. Lawyers for the inmates argue that the drug violates the…
Turns out, everyone agrees with Tom Petty’s lawyers. Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” sounds oddly similar to Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” and Smith will now have to pay him…
The lawyers for the youth’s family said they they are “cautiously optimistic” about the change. “The Rice family hopes that this investigation yields information about why Cleveland Police failed to…