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A judge is weighing a critical legal question in the case of a man who confessed to killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers: Can the man claim at his trial that the slaying was justified to save the lives of unborn children? Complete Story...
A federal judge threw out the fraud conviction of Chicago's former streets and sanitation commissioner Tuesday and granted him a new trial on charges of illegally rewarding political campaign workers with city jobs.
A federal judge has ordered a new trial for Chicago's former commissioner of streets and sanitation who was convicted of illegally handing out jobs as a reward for doing political campaign work.
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is pleading not guilty to charges of illegally accepting funds from an American supporter and double-billing Jewish groups for trips abroad.
The Texas attorney general's office says a 57-year-old member of a polygamist group has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for the sexual assault of a child.
Four Google executives should not be held responsible for a video posted online that showed teenagers abusing an autistic youth in Turin, their lawyers argued Wednesday in an Italian court.
If you called central casting and asked for the quintessential American grandmother, they’d send you 76-year-old Sandy Vinge. Glowing with life, she is sweeter than a Christmas cookie.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is forming a squad to assist prosecutors in the upcoming New York trials of Sept. 11 suspects.
Federal prosecutors are considering sending a Guantanamo Bay detainee named Majid Khan — who grew up in Maryland before allegedly enlisting with al-Qaida — to face trial in New York, a person familiar with the discussions said Monday.
A Spanish court has found 11 men guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization that was plotting to stage what would have been the country's first suicide attacks, judges said in a statement Monday.
A man has been convicted of murder for his role in a 2006 Indianapolis robbery during which three children and four adults were shot.
A judge has set a Jan. 21 sentencing date for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon.
Attorney General Eric Holder made an unannounced visit to a Manhattan courthouse Wednesday to inspect security for the pending trial of the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Oklahoma's pollution case against the Arkansas poultry industry suffered another setback Wednesday, when a judge blocked the state from introducing soil test records that reportedly showed high phosphorus levels at 50 chicken farms.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New York City will make him "as important or more important than Osama bin Laden."
A federal jury has convicted former New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno on two counts of corruption and acquitted him on five others.
A defense attorney with a high-profile client list was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Friday for plotting with a Guyanese businessman to use bribes and threats to silence witnesses in the businessman's drug-trafficking case.
Two mob bosses — nicknamed the "Hammerhead" and "Spicy Qin" — have been sentenced to death for murder and illegally running a business empire involving underground casinos, cement factories and poultry markets in southern China, a court official and local media said Friday.
With Minnesota businessman Tom Petters' planning to appeal his convictions in a Ponzi scheme that cost investors more than $3.5 billion, the fight over his future and how to compensate victims of the fraud will likely drag on for years.
The murder trial of a former South American dictator resumed Tuesday after a monthlong delay, with a witness placing him at the scene where 15 political opponents were executed 27 years ago.
Mayor Sheila Dixon's misdemeanor fraud conviction fails to meet a key standard necessary for her removal from office, her attorney said Wednesday as the mayor resumed her regular duties a day after the verdict.
A Malaysian court Tuesday ordered Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial to start next month, rejecting the opposition leader's bid to scrap a case that he claims is meant to halt his political resurgence.
A new panel of judges will formally open Premier Silvio Berlusconi's bribery trial on Dec. 4, more than a year after it was frozen by a now-defunct immunity law.
An Italian prosecutor demanded jail time Wednesday for four Google executives charged in absentia with defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused.
Jurors have completed their fourth day of deliberations without a verdict in the fraud trial of Minnesota businessman accused of operating a massive Ponzi scheme.
Terror at Perth Avenue amid death and bomb threats - thestar.comThe trouble began exactly one year ago, when the letters started to mysteriously appear. The first threatened to kill a Toronto teacher and her newborn baby.
Iran to try 3 Americans who crossed Iraqi border - Yahoo! NewsWhether tried as spies or not, Iran will go through with a trail. They will do so without any proof to substantiate their claims and the trial will be nothing more than a scam. It's foundation is based strictly on nothing less than outright spite.
Iran to put on trial three US hikers facing spy charges Iran is to put on trial three US citizens who crossed into Iran while hiking in Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has said. The three young Americans, who were detained in July, are charged with entering Iran illegally.
American Justice System Too Weak For Terrorists, GOPers Say Standing in front of the Supreme Court this morning, a group of Republican lawmakers railed against the court system run out of the building behind them. A sign affixed to the plexiglas podium each spoke at in turn spelled out the reasons for their fears.
Goldilocks on trial in Massachusetts Three Little Bears are hauling Goldilocks to court in Boston on breaking-and-entry as well as vandalism charges. Gold E. Locks will go on trial on Saturday for breaking into the Bear family home, vandalizing it and eating their porridge.
Alleged Killer of Abortion Doctor Fights for Necessity Defense Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the fatal shooting of a Kansas abortion provider, is fighting prosecutors' attempts to ban the so-called necessity defense at his trial.
Death penalty in 9/11 trials may be difficult - Legal experts say Obama was overly confidentAfter Zacarias Moussaoui -- the accused "20th hijacker" in the Sept.
I'm not an attorney but Eric Holder is dangerousTo those in the legal profession – where are you at with all of this? Are we talking here about a mere "show trial?" Is the American Bar Association okay with the Executive Branch running over the top of the judiciary?
Pardoned White House Turkey Slays NineWASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - In a potentially embarrassing situation for the Obama White House, a turkey pardoned by President Obama earlier this week went on a three-state killing spree on Thanksgiving Day, killing nine.
Eric Holder's Baffling KSM DecisionOn Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to question Attorney General Eric Holder about his decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in criminal courts rather than military tribunals.
Kids 'force-fed, smeared with faeces and made to eat vomit'Young kids were force-fed, smeared with faeces and made to eat their own vomit at a horror nursery in Germany.
The Twenty-Eighth AmendmentWe are told again and again that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims want nothing more than to live in peace.
5 Extremely Compelling Reasons Not To Hold Terror Trials In New York City [Comic]Sorry folks, no summary. Click through to read the comic (it's worth it).
Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views - Yahoo! NewsThe five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Ghailanis New York Trial Is Key Test for Other Terror Cases - NYTimes.comAhmed Khalfan Ghailani, suspected of being a Qaeda terrorist, was captured in Pakistan in 2004, held in secret prisons run by the C.I.A. and then moved to the naval base at Guantánamo Bay.
The Obama/Holder BushwhackThe Obama administration's absurd, unnecessary, and dangerous decision to prosecute 9/11 terrorists in a civilian court is plumbing the depths of what Charles Krauthammer has labeled "Bush Derangement Syndrome" (BDS): the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reac …
A Pre-9/11 Approach to TerrorBoth President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday defended their bizarre decision to try five Islamic terrorists tied to the 9/11 attacks in a federal court in New York City.
KSM, OJ and "Trials of the Century"Does Eric Holder remember the most infamous criminal trial of the 20th century, the 1995 trial of O.J. Simpson...?
Minnesota news items from the past year give one pause when one considers that the natives have long prided themselves on being 'Minnesota Nice'. Minnesota is supposed to be a place where the whole state is just like the fictional Lake Woebegone of National Public Radio fame.
Denying Reality, or the Heavy Cost of Political CorrectnessIn the wake of the murder of 13 and the wounding of 38 soldiers at Fort Hood on November 5, media analysts, politicians, and other sundry experts scrambled to present the accused perpetrator of the acts, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, as a victim.
Obama's Gift to OsamaWhoever suggested that Barack Obama is not a Christian? Obama's decision to try those Gitmo prisoners in New York is the perfect gift for Osama bin Laden and just in time for Christmas.
Is America a Serious Nation?Are we at war -- or not? For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a US citizen? Is it possible we have …
Unintended Consequences of the New York City Terrorist TrialNew York City experienced Muslim Day in 2008. Then there was the pro-Hamas demonstration in Florida.
2 Of 7 Charges Against Baltimore Mayor DismissedBALTIMORE -- The prosecution wrapped up its case for felony theft against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on Tuesday, and the defense got two counts against Dixon thrown out since a key witness for the state didn't testify.
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