A 20-year-old University of Iowa student went for an evening run in her hometown and did not return home. For five weeks the family’s desperate search for Mollie Tibbetts drew national attention, but the story took an ugly turn when Tibbetts’ lifeless body was found hidden in a cornfield and a Mexican immigrant was accused of her murder.
Read moreAn Irish court should be allowed to protect one of its citizens from a judgment abroad of which the man did not receive prior notice, a magistrate with Europe’s highest court determined Thursday.
Read moreDismissing the indictment of a teen who pleaded guilty to killing a Sweet 16 partygoer, New York’s top court ruled 4-3 Thursday that the 5-year road to trial was excessive.
Read moreOrdering a new trial on four Bergen County sexual assaults that punctuated the summer of 2012, New Jersey’s high court ruled Thursday that serious errors tainted the conviction.
Read moreAn Ohio man convicted of three murders claims in a federal lawsuit that he is entitled to a new, impartial evaluation of the forensic evidence used against him after the state suppressed other evidence in his favor, including concerns that an analyst was biased.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up the case of a Louisiana death row inmate who claims a trial court violated his right to a fair trial by refusing to let him fire his attorney and represent himself.
Read moreA California judge on Wednesday granted 101-year-old actress Dame Olivia de Havilland a speedy trial on her claims of invasion of privacy against the makers of the miniseries “Feud: Bette and Joan.”
Read moreWith U.S. prosecutors threatening to seize any money El Chapo would spend on a private defense team, attorneys for the Sinaloa drug lord called it unfair Monday that they would also deny him taxpayer-funded counsel.
Read moreFound guilty of fixing what has been called the “world’s most important number,” two British bankers had their convictions for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate — better known as Libor — overturned on Wednesday.
Read moreThe Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Thursday that a man convicted of murder as a teenager is not entitled to a new trial because he didn’t prove he was prejudiced by his counsel’s failure to object to a closed courtroom during jury selection.
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Finding an unbiased panel to hear the sexual-assault case against Bill Cosby in Pennsylvania may prove a lengthy pursuit, a survey of potential jurors showed Monday.
Read moreWith a year to go before the drug lord goes on trial, attorneys for Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman fought in court Friday to remove a literal barrier separating them from their client.
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Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Sinaloa drug lord who escaped twice from Mexican prisons, failed Thursday to loosen the restrictions of his 23-hour-a-day solitary confinement in U.S. custody.
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