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0. Deputy finds lawyer unclothed with girl, 14 (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer faces multiple charges of sexual assault after a sheriff's deputy caught him naked with a 14-year-old girl in a courthouse conference room, police said yesterday.
1. Pachacutec: Libby Trial Day Three: Is The Jury Selection Process Fair? (HuffingtonPost)
DC Federal Court (For today's jury selection status and live blogging updates, please see here and here .) I'm not an attorney and have not viewed any other criminal voir dire processes, though it seems to me that Judge Walton was trying to give the defense a certain amount of latitude to explore potential biases among jurors. Judge Walton has done high profile cases ...
2. County faces 'avalanche' of capital cases (The Arizona Republic)
The number of criminal defendants sentenced to death in murder cases in the United States dropped to an all-time low in 2006. But the number of death-penalty cases now in Maricopa County Superior Court, 130 to 140, has risen so high that it has outstripped the number of defense attorneys qualified to handle those cases.
3. California could drop PI's charges (Rocky Mountain News)
California likely will drop criminal charges against a low-level investigator from Jefferson County in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandal because he already pleaded guilty to similar crimes in federal court, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
4. Calif. Mulls Dropping Some HP Charges (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The state will likely drop criminal charges against a low-level investigator in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying scandal because he already pleaded guilty to similar crimes in federal court, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
5. 'MAFIA' COURT GAMBLE (New York Post)
Chris Colombo carries a famous gangster's name and "looks like he just walked off the set of 'The Sopranos' " - but he's really just a simple bookie and gambler, his lawyer said yesterday. Defense lawyer Jeremy Schneider cut his losses as...
6. Disgraced lawmaker to learn fate today (The Columbus Dispatch)
WASHINGTON - A federal judge is scheduled to sentence former Rep. Bob Ney to prison this morning, making the Licking County Republican the first lawmaker to go to jail for his role in one of the most notorious lobbying scandals to hit Capitol Hill in years.
7. Death cases crowd the federal docket in Brooklyn (CNN.com)
NEW YORK (AP) -- At one point last week, a cop killer, a notorious drug lord and a defendant portrayed by prosecutors as a one-man crime wave were fighting for their lives in the same federal courthouse in Brooklyn in an unusual confluence of three death penalty trials under one roof.
8. Defense: Murder suspect was denied an attorney (St. Petersburg Times)
Hillsborough sheriff's detectives "ignored and then thwarted" David Lee Onstott's repeated requests to speak with an attorney before charging him in the slaying of a 13-year-old Ruskin girl, his lawyers say.
9. Why Both Cully Stimson - Who Suggested a Boycott of Firms Representing Detainees Pro Bono - and Some of His Critics Are ... (FindLaw)
Last week, Assistant Secretary for Detainee Affairs Cully Stimson, a Defense Department official, suggested that corporate America's leaders should think twice about engaging law firms whose attorneys have been offering pro bono legal services to represent Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings.
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