A federal judge wants to keep a prosecutor already under investigation for his role in the Ted Stevens case out of a separate congressional corruption trial.
Police in Fort Worth say a top SEC official prosecuting Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford's fraud case has been accused of assaulting an officer.
A federal judge upheld the right of a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter to invoke the Fifth Amendment when he refused in court Tuesday to reveal his sources in a 2004 story about a terrorism prosecutor.
A federal appeals court won't stop a Detroit newspaper reporter from being questioned next week about unidentified sources who helped with a story in 2004.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter in Detroit has asked a federal appeals court to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to identify sources who leaked information about a terrorism prosecutor.
The investigation into whether prosecutors broke the law in pursuing their case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is being led by a Harley-riding attorney known for his low-key style and experience on both sides of criminal law.
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's announcement that he would retire after a five-decade career that brought him national recognition set in motion a flurry of jostling among leading contenders for one of the most coveted prosecutor jobs in the nation.
A judge declined to hold a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter in contempt Thursday for refusing to reveal unnamed sources but ordered him to attend another deposition for more questions about a 2004 story about a federal terrorism prosecutor.
When Sheriff Rick Walter was a reserve deputy, he discovered slain college student Angela Mischelle Lawless in her idling car along a rural southeastern Missouri highway and was sure at least two people had attacked her.
Maine's former top drug prosecutor pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal child pornography charges.
A lawyer urged a judge Wednesday to end a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's claim that he had a Fifth Amendment right to refuse to identify unnamed sources who leaked information about a terrorism prosecutor.
A former federal prosecutor in Puerto Rico is suing the island's female U.S. attorney for allegedly creating what he calls a "girls club" environment in the office.
A lawyer asked a judge Tuesday to declare a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter in contempt for refusing during a court-ordered deposition to reveal unnamed sources who leaked information about a terrorism prosecutor.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on Monday declined to reveal his government sources for a story about a former terrorism prosecutor.
South Africa's top prosecutor, who was suspended after he pursued corruption charges against the national police chief and the head of the country's governing party, should be fired, the president said Monday.
A man whose conviction in the first terror-related case after 9/11 was thrown out can sue a former federal prosecutor over his handling of the case, a judge said Wednesday.
A former U.S. attorney for Minnesota retaliated against a top prosecutor in her office who reported her for careless handling of classified homeland security reports, a watchdog agency said Wednesday.
A prominent Texas prosecutor who fell from grace after the mistaken release of racist, political and pornographic e-mails found on his office computer will not face charges stemming from the scandal, his replacement said Tuesday.
A sex-crimes prosecutor in California has pleaded not guilty to tying up and raping a colleague while threatening her with an ice pick and a handgun.
A high-profile federal prosecutor — whose office is investigating Wall Street and who toppled New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer — told superiors at the Justice Department on Monday that he is leaving his job.
A federal judge won't block the deposition of a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to answer questions about unnamed sources used in a 2004 story about the ethics investigation of a terrorism prosecutor.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter did not appear at a deposition Thursday to answer questions about unidentified sources, and a lawyer wanting his testimony said he would probably seek a contempt citation.
A judge ruled that a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter can be questioned about unidentified sources he used in a 2004 story about an ethics investigation into a high-ranking federal prosecutor who handled a botched terrorism case.
Michael Garcia's predecessors as U.S. attorney in Manhattan took on all five mob families, the titans of Wall Street, Osama bin Laden and even Martha Stewart. So it was largely unnoticed when Garcia wanted to attack public corruption.
New Jersey's top federal prosecutor told a Latino group it's a civil offense — not a crime — for immigrants to live in the country without proper documentation, a comment that a spokesman later said was aimed at a narrowly worded question.
During the Presidential election, Sarah Palin was anything but an ardent fan of Bill Ayers, known (ex) domestic terrorist:
Prosecutors are getting caught with their pants down. Attorney General Eric Holder and others found the dirt done in this case. Let's go to the next one.
The picture that investigators from the office of District Attorney George P. Skumanick of Wyoming County had was taken two years earlier at a slumber party. It showed Marissa and a friend from the waist up. Both were wearing bras.
Former top drug prosecutor Karen Plants and two Inkster cops face up to life in prison for an alleged conspiracy to use perjured testimony to convict two drug dealers in a 2005 cocaine case, according to charging documents filed this morning.
Leveridge said in a statement Thursday that he "made a mistake for which I am truly sorry." He says he will seek no special favors from the court and pledged it wouldn't happen again.
Rihanna has agreed to "speak to the [prosecutor's] on Chris' behalf." The snitch continued, "Rihanna doesn't want this to go any further, she will be speaking to [prosecutors] and - if need be – admit to her part in the [incident]."
Yesterday, Cole County, Missouri Circuit Judge Richard Callahan issued a stunning opinion in the case of Joshua Kezer, a 34-year-old man who has been in prison for 17 years for the 1992 murder of 19-year-old college student Angela Mischelle Lawless.
Theodore Jerry Williams (defendant) was arrested and placed in the Stanly County Detention Center on 17 November 2003 on charges unrelated to the present matter.
How many more cases do we need to see where prosecutors withhold exculpatory evidence from the defense before the state bar, the courts or the Legislature act to sanction them?
A whopping 70,000 questions poured into Change.gov over the past week, in response to the Obama transition team's call for citizen queries to the President-Elect.
Quoting the article, "After years during which prisoners were held without trial, the question is whether this surge in prosecutions and publicity is a case of due process finally starting to work — or a hurried effort designed to tie Obama's hands as he tries to shut the faci …
There were flashes of incredulity and anger from justices at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as they considered whether Tennessee prosecutors had committed misconduct in obtaining and defending a death sentence against a man who murdered a Memphis couple in 1980.
THE POLICE union has called for a top Crown prosecutor to resign in the wake of comments made on the decision not to prosecute Worthing police chief Sharon Rowe with theft.
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey has appointed a special prosecutor to continue investigating the Department of Justice's controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys.
Contending that the government had suppressed evidence that could help a young man facing life in prison, a prosecutor has quit the war crimes tribunals here, several military defense lawyers said Wednesday.
A military prosecutor involved in war crimes cases here has quit his position, citing ethical concerns about his office's failure to turn over exculpatory material to attorneys for an Afghan detainee scheduled to go to trial in December.
DENVER -- Investigators are still trying to determine why a prosecutor was shot and killed outside his northwest Denver home, police said Thursday.
The heroes in Vince's case are those who would prosecute George W. Bush for murder in an American court of law.
Hamilton, Ohio - The Butler County prosecutor, Robin Piper, has asked the judge in the case of Harvey "Shawn" Johnson to issue a ruling against any more crying by Johnson's attorney, Greg Howard. Johnson is accused of strangling his girlfriend, Kiva Gazaway, to death last year.
Chiman Rai, 68, a native of India, is accused of masterminding the plot to have Sparkle Michelle Reid Rai killed because he did not approve of his son marrying outside of his race.
Vincent Bugliosi who in the early 1970s successfully prosecuted Charles Manson for the murder of Sharon Tate and six others lays out his case against Bush in The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Perseus Books, 2008).
IN early 2004 Eliot Spitzer was at the height of his powers as the sheriff of Wall Street, the highflying New York prosecutor who had set his sights on the cosy corporate kleptocracy that was pocketing millions from insider deals while ordinary investors went bankrupt.
HOUSTON — A day after a federal court slip-up exposed intimate office e-mail exchanges with his executive secretary, Texas' most powerful prosecutor, the district attorney of Harris County, issued a public apology Friday to his family and others.
The elderly widow of a renowned Oxford don is the unlikely recipient of a European arrest warrant alleging that she sent a war hero to his death during the Stalinist era show trials more than half a century ago.
Prosecutor Håkan Roswall announced that he plans to press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay before January 31, 2008. The 5 are suspected of facilitating copyright infringement.