Lexington, is appealing his child porn conviction to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. May pleaded guilty in January.

Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down three decisions on a Thursday, each of them substantively important to the individuals involved, but all of them essentially involving the Supreme ...

Since lawyers draft their own ethics rules, they unsurprisingly include provisions allowing them to disclose client confidences to defend themselves from clients’ (and even third parties’) attacks. A ...

Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes was convicted of murder and related charges in connection with the death of a border patrol agent, Brian Terry, in a firefight in 2010 in a remote mountain area south of ...

Ineffective assistance of counsel is a discrete legal ground for appeal in post-conviction relief cases even if the underlying issue was previously litigated on appeal, according to a late-December ...

FILE PHOTO: Judge Christina F. Gomez speaks on June 30, 2022 after her formal swearing-in to the Colorado Court of Appeals, with Chief Judge Gilbert M . Román at right. Colorado Politics file photo ...

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