U.S. moving to clear backlog of executions International Herald Tribune | : Here in the nation's leading death-penalty state, and some of the 35 others that practice capital punishment, execution dockets are quickly filling up. | Less than three weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a seven-month halt in lethal injections, at least 14 execution dates have now been se...
Group Urges Pakistan Detainees Freed Orlando Sentinel ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's new government must immediately release dozens of people who were secretly detained by spy agencies as part of President Pervez Musharraf's cooperation with the U.S.-led war on terrorism, human rights activists said Sunday. | Some of the detainees have been illegally...
Lawyers for Livent founders focus blame on former executive Canada Dot Com | Peter Brieger, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | Change font size | Story tools presented by try{ var str_da_src = document.getElementById('ad-leaderboard').getElementsByTagName('script')[0].src; str_da_src = str_da_src.replace(/...
Lawyer apologizes after hinting 9/11 link to Rezko trial witness STL Today THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | (Brian Kersey/AP) | CHICAGO - Political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko's defense attorney and the government's last major witness bickered sharply Friday as prosecutors prepared to rest their case after eight weeks. | Former Il...
Chicago cop's lawyer seeks gag order in bar-beating case Chicago Tribune The lawyer for a Chicago police officer captured on tape viciously beating a female bartender wants to bar attorneys and witnesses from speaking publicly about the case. | Attorney Peter Hickey, who represents Officer Anthony Abbate, moved for a gag ...
Client creepy, not criminal, lawyer says Canada Dot Com | NEW YORK -- A man accused of stalking actress Uma Thurman for two years may have been creepy and obsessive but he did not break the law, his lawyer told a New York jury on Monday. | Jack Jordan, 37, is accused of sending harassing e-mails to Thurma...
After 26 years, 2 lawyers reveal a killer's secret - and an inmate hopes to ... Star Tribune | CHICAGO - For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his bedroom closet, other times under his bed. | It stayed there &md...
After years, lawyers reveal killer's secret San Fransisco Chronicle | (04-13) 04:00 PDT Chicago -- | For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his bedroom closet, other times under his bed. ...
A pair of cases in which lawyers didn't stay silent Seattle Times | Lawyers in two states recently took the difficult step of breaking confidences to right what they saw as wrongs in controversial murder cases. | In North Carolina, an appellate defender testified in 2007 that his former client - who committed suici...
After 26 years, 2 lawyers reveal a killer's secret USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | CHICAGO (AP) — For nearly 26 years, the affidavit was sealed in an envelope and stored in a locked box, tucked away with the lawyer's passport and will. Sometimes he stashed the box in his...
But a continued fight could mean more costly lawyers fees. Austin American Statesman | A storm is gathering over the terms of a proposed settlement in a lawsuit against officials of the Pedernales Electric Cooperative because the agreement could exempt them from accountability for any wrong actions that may have occurred on their wat...
IBM set to unveil new cost-effective solar cell Austin American Statesman | SAN DIEGO — Combining high-tech semiconductor engineering with a simple staple of kids play, IBM Corp. on Thursday plans to unveil new technology it claims can squeeze more juice out of solar electric systems and significantly reduce their cost. | At a technology conference here, IBM researchers plan to show off a new type of so-called "con...
Was it self-defense or firearms offense? The Boston Globe | The racket came from the dark kitchen area, and it startled David Crest as he slept in the office of his Hanover catering business. He suspected he was being burglarized again, and as he crept toward the noise, he grabbed the Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun he had kept by his side. | "Freeze," he screamed. Crest believed he had finally caught the c...
