By Andrew Denney | September 12, 2018
A Brooklyn appeals court said a man's 20-year-old murder conviction that a lower court tossed out last year should have stuck, finding that the prosecution in the case played by the rules and did not withhold key evidence from the defense.
By John Council | September 11, 2018
Five years after his initial indictment for illegally soliciting cases as a lawyer, Texas state Rep. Ron Reynolds recently entered the Montgomery County Jail and began serving a one-year sentence for barratry, though he has vowed to continue fighting the charge.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Joseph Nohavicka | September 10, 2018
Explaining to a client the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule that permits the statement of a person who cannot be cross-examined at trial is embarrassing, and for them, often frightening.
By Greg Land | September 10, 2018
Bulloch County Superior Court Judge F. Gates Peed knew his refusal to consider the underlying arguments was "not the law" when he refused to seal a man's expunged record.
By Tom McParland | September 7, 2018
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the convictions of David Matusiewicz and his sister Amy Gonzalez, who were sentenced to life in prison in the nation's first prosecution of cyberstalking resulting in death.
By Katheryn Tucker | September 7, 2018
“Divided loyalties often prove to be a source of mischief in human relations. As this case illustrates, they also cause serious trouble for an attorney and his client,” Eleventh Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan said.
By Katheryn Tucker | September 7, 2018
“Divided loyalties often prove to be a source of mischief in human relations,” Eleventh U.S. Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan noted.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. D'Annunzio | September 7, 2018
A former college student accused of sexual assault should have been able to present an account from his accuser about her sexual history at trial, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.
By Greg Land | September 5, 2018
Former Atlanta police officer James Burns, re-indicted on murder charges Wednesday for a 2016 shooting, had filed an emergency petition asking that the same grand jury rules that applied when he was first indicted—including allowing him to deliver a statement without being questioned—be applied again. A Fulton judge said "no."
By Roy Strom | September 4, 2018
Matthew Kluger will continue to serve hot dogs after he unsuccessfully argued that federal prosecutors in New York wouldn't have bothered to bring his $37 million insider trading case.
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