As has happened before in Florida, "stand your ground" is being appropriately scrutinized in the aftermath of the shocking shooting death...

A couple in the town of Mesquite, [Texas] have spent the past several years trying to learn how and why their son died after being...

Most complaints of child sexual abuse in Malaysia do not lead to successful prosecutions. According to classified data Malaysian police...

692 felony convictions in California ... were thrown out between 1989 and 2012 based on errors or misconduct by police, prosecutors,...

In North Carolina, a person cannot withdraw consent for sex once intercourse is taking place. Because of a 1979 state supreme court...

Thanks to a disagreement between the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF), more than 2,000 guns were...

The permissible exposure limit for ortho-toluidine is 5 parts per million in air, a threshold based on research conducted in the 1940s...

District Court Judge Curtis DeLapp was renowned for his hair-trigger temper. For almost a dozen years, DeLapp used his power to terrify...

Since 1973, at least 194 people have been freed from death row after evidence of innocence revealed that they had been wrongfully...

As George H. Painter was preparing to retire recently as one of two administrative law judges presiding over investor complaints at the...

Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh decided to launch a task force to dig through thousands of cases involving...

When Frank Serpico, the most famous police whistleblower of his generation, reflected on years of law-enforcement corruption in the New...

The U.S. Supreme Court building proclaims a high ideal: Equal Justice Under Law. But inside, an elite cadre of lawyers has emerged [to...

In April 2012, a Kansas SWAT team raided the home of Robert and Addie Harte, their 7-year-old daughter and their 13-year-old son. The...

If domestic abuse is one of the most underreported crimes, domestic abuse by police officers is virtually an invisible one. It is...

Tailyn Wang was two months pregnant when federal police officers broke into her house in Mexico City, ripped off her nightgown and threw...

When she was a scrawny 11-year-old, Sherry Johnson found out one day that she was about to be married to a 20-year-old member of her...

The Justice Department was caught in another high-profile travesty last month. On Dec. 20, federal judge Gloria Navarro declared a...

Crystal Mason, the woman who became the poster child for voter suppression when she was sentenced to five years for casting a ballot in...

She was 30 years old, jobless and facing a custody fight. To keep her kids, she needed a lawyer. Tim Parker seemed ideal. The woman told...