12 Years
Lamont Tarkington claims in a federal complaint that he was wrongly imprisoned for 12 years after Los Angeles County sheriff’s officers fabricated evidence to convict him of a bank robbery he did not do.
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Details Ironed Out for Manafort Foreign-Agent Trial
Already convicted of financial felonies, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is unsure whether to mount a defense at his second trial next month.
Read moreMan’s Childhood Memory of Mom’s Murder Prompts New Trials
The Michigan Supreme Court on Monday granted two men retrials for the 1999 slaying of a woman in Detroit after her son came forward with childhood memories that cast doubt on the identity of the killers and support the men’s claims of innocence.
Read moreDirty Dozen Tapes Seized in Michael Cohen Probe
Federal prosecutors took possession of 12 audio files following privilege waivers by President Donald Trump and his embattled attorney Michael Cohen on Friday, the same day the New York Times offered a tantalizing glimpse at one secret recording.
Read morePetition Blocked
The Ninth Circuit rejected an application from a California prisoner convicted of murder to file a second habeas corpus petition due to his failure to discover alleged suppressed evidence while filing his previous petition.
Read moreMueller Evidence List Shows Manafort Enjoyed the Finer Things
Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted a list featuring 436 pieces of evidence prosecutors will consider using in the upcoming trial for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Read moreJudge Won’t Suppress Evidence From Manafort’s Home
Evidence seized from President Trump’s embattled ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort’s private residence won’t be suppressed, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreSixth Circuit OKs Conviction Based on Gun Selfie
The Sixth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Tennessee man is not entitled to a new trial for being a felon in possession of a firearm because Facebook photos apparently showing him with guns were properly admitted into evidence.
Read moreSupremes to Tackle Expert Testimony in Disability Cases
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a vocational expert’s testimony in a disability case constitutes evidence of other jobs available to an injured worker when the expert didn’t provide underlying data to support their testimony.
Read moreRefused Death-Penalty Case Sparks Misgivings
Though they agreed that the case did not merit review, Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg voiced grave concerns Monday at the rejection of a death-penalty challenge.
Read moreParole Board Recommends Death for Ohio Stabber
Ohio’s parole board decided Friday not to grant clemency to a death-row inmate after considering the testimony of a juror who said he voted to put the man to death based on misleading information about his fraught childhood and drug addiction.
Read moreMueller Outlines Evidence to Be Used in Manafort Trial
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team on Friday outlined some of the evidence it will introduce during ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s trial in September.
Read moreFiles From Cohen Shredder, Encrypted Apps Restored by Feds
Prosecutors reconstructed more than a dozen pages of shredded documents and obtained hundreds of encrypted messages from President Donald Trump’s embattled personal attorney Michael Cohen, they announced Friday.
Read moreJustices Slam Rejection of Condemned Inmate’s Appeal
Two liberal justices dissented Monday from the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a case involving mitigating evidence that a Texas death-row inmate has fetal alcohol syndrome, saying jurors did not have a complete picture of his character.
Read moreHigh Court Punts Case on Self-Incriminating Kansas Officer
The U.S. Supreme Court had a change of heart Tuesday about a case where interview disclosures led to a Kansas police officer facing felony charges.
Read moreTexas Judge Rules for Workers Hurt in Weekend Blast
Ten workers injured Saturday in a fiery explosion at a suburban Houston plastics plant won a temporary restraining order Monday forcing the plant owner not to tamper with a valve suspected of setting off the blast.
Read moreThree Bikers Charged With Murder in Waco Shootout
A Texas grand jury indicted three members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang on murder charges Wednesday for their alleged role in a deadly 2015 restaurant shootout with rival Cossacks and police that killed nine and injured 20.
Read moreManafort Denies Authorization of Employee Who Opened Door to Feds
Fighting to suppress evidence obtained with a search warrant, former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort argued in a court filing Friday that the FBI entered his Virginia storage unit a day before the search with improper authorization.
Read moreTrial Date Set for Port Authority Bombing Suspect
The man who survived detonation of a pipe bomb strapped to his chest at New York City’s Port Authority will go to trial just a year shy of the botched explosion.
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