A federal judge refused to dismiss claims that former state prosecutor Robert J. Healy fabricated evidence against Ledura Watkins, whose life sentence on a first-degree murder conviction was vacated in 2017 after he served 41 years.
Read moreA federal judge denied New York police officers a retrial of the excessive-force lawsuit they lost after arresting a doctor over a parking ticket, because they fabricated evidence; the doctor may accept $200,000 in damages or ask for a retrial on damages only.
Read moreRevealing film tastes befitting an accused sex trafficker, the Second Circuit offered a nauseating look Friday at Jeffrey Epstein’s Amazon purchases in a huge tranche of unsealed documents.
Read moreFinding no Bivens cause of action for fabrication of evidence, the Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of civil rights claims against Texas police and FBI agents from a man who spent two years in jail awaiting trial on drug charges, of which a jury cleared him.
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Georgia election officials repeatedly and intentionally destroyed evidence that could show unauthorized access to state election infrastructure and potential manipulation of election results, according to a federal court filing.
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With the fate of North Carolina’s voting districts on the line, objections to evidence from a deceased mapmaker’s files dominated the third day of a trial on claims of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering by Republican lawmakers.
Read moreLocked in a safe inside his $77 million Upper East Side townhouse, wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein kept a long-expired Austrian passport bearing his picture and not his name.
Read moreFederal prosecutors, preparing for a bail fight Monday, say evidence against financier Jeffrey Epstein is growing “stronger by the day” after several more women contacted them in recent days to say he abused them when they were minors.
Read moreThe Supreme Court’s decision Friday not to hear the case of a South Carolina man sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a minor drew the ire of liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said his claim of withheld evidence is worthy of review.
Read moreBlessing fabrication-of-evidence claims against a prosecutor, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the window to sue began at the end of the trial in which the evidence was used.
Read moreMichigan prosecutors have dropped eight criminal cases and relaunched a probe into the Flint water crisis because they say the investigative body appointed by former Governor Rick Snyder’s attorney general kept crucial evidence away from law enforcement officials.
Read moreThree politically active sisters, one a former Pennsylvania senator and another a former state Supreme Court justice, challenged their corruption convictions Wednesday at the Third Circuit.
Read moreProsecutors in the admissions-bribery case that has rocked colleges across the country told a federal judge Monday that it is still too early to finalize the evidence — a record that includes millions of pages and counting.
Read moreThe case of a missing 4-year-old Texas girl came to a gruesome end Monday as officials said remains found near an interstate exit ramp nearly six hours from where she disappeared have been identified as hers.
Read moreAttorneys for a Navy SEAL accused of killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 want the case thrown out because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct that includes withholding evidence and conducting surveillance on the defense.
Read moreThe attorney for a rap music producer convicted of drugs and firearms possession told the 11th Circuit on Friday that the government based its accusations against him on flimsy evidence including social media posts and text messages.
Read moreWhen New York real estate heir Robert Durst goes on trial early next year for murder of a longtime friend, jurors will hear damaging admissions he made to his chief prosecutor during a long interview the day after his arrest, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreAttorneys for longtime GOP operative and Trump confidante Roger Stone faced stern words from a federal judge late Tuesday for sloppy generalities in a recent motion.
Read moreAttorneys defending New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft against solicitation-of-prostitution charges convinced a Florida judge to suppress video evidence that police claim shows Kraft engaging in paid sex acts at a day spa.
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