Legal Newsletter looks at how prosecutors pushed back on the administration's handling of the Eric Adams case, plus other legal news.

“I think they’re playing a very dangerous game,” said Michelle Suskauer, one of dozens of defense attorneys now tasked with ...

As the trial continues for the former Georgia district attorney who is accused of slow-walking the case in the killing of ...

Prosecutors and defense attorneys squared off outside the courtroom Friday over Gov. Hochul’s proposal to close so-called loopholes in discovery laws, a criminal justice reform initiative being ...

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the President's palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) ...

He’s scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 12. An attorney filling in for Machou’s defense attorney told the judge Machou had been homeless and couldn’t afford to post much bail. He also noted ...

“Tell the ladies and gentlemen of the jury how Jackie Johnson knowingly and willfully hindered you and directed you not to arrest Travis McMichael,” defense attorney Brian Steel asked ...

Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) praised Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, ahead of the committee vote, highlighting her more than two decades’ worth of experience as a prosecutor.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Pam Bondi’s nomination for attorney general in a party-line 12-10 vote Wednesday. Despite stiff opposition from Democrats, Ms. Bondi is on a glide path to ...

Michel Paradis, a defense attorney for Mohammed and another defendant, said the Biden administration appeared to have made a strategic decision to let the negotiations play out. “It’s not this ...

Defense lawyers delivered closing arguments Monday in the political corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Madigan's defense team took aim at the government's star ...