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Another case heading to the Supreme Court dealing with asset forfeiture.

Allen Superior Judge Fran Gull has appointed two local public defenders to the man accused of murdering two Delphi teen girls, despite the man’s former attorney saying he was removed

The top military court decided in June that service members accused of crimes aren’t entitled to unanimous verdicts, unlike in the civilian legal system.

Legal bluster? In Silverglate’s case, probably not.

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Seeking to avoid a courtroom appearance, the former president’s eldest daughter alleges prosecutorial error.

In her column, Emory Law’s Tonja Jacobi writes about the US Supreme Court and legal ethics. Here, she says courts now have capacity to treat former President Donald Trump like every other criminal defendant.

George Floyd may have been the perfect victim for the riots that followed his death, but the trial of Officer Chauvin was remarkably imperfect.

THE FOUNDATION "Wish not so much to live long as to live well." —Benjamin Franklin (1746) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1861, after months of grueling work to extend telegraph wire from Carson City, Nevada, to Omaha, Nebraska, the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent from San...

RICHMOND — The Virginia Court of Appeals has upheld the life sentence of a Winchester man convicted last year of stabbing, kicking and punching his estranged girlfriend nearly to death.