When Brendan Dassey was 16 years old, he was interrogated by the police for his role in the murder of Tereasa Halbach. Dassey, whose story was featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” was ...

Lori Ackerman was charged with murder following the death of her fiancé, Shannon Tate, in 2020. A Clay County jury acquitted her last year.

The crime was heinous. But just as shocking was that the defendant was an 11-year-old boy, referred to in court documents only as “A.M.” because he was a juvenile. O’Neill helped secure A.M.’s ...

When Italy's highest court exonerated Amanda Knox of murder in 2015, the bulk of her adult life had been consumed by a legal saga that began during her time as a study abroad student in Perugia, Italy ...

Joette Katz, a partner with Shipman & Goodwin. Courtesy photo. Richard Lapointe’s family is set to receive nearly $6 million for his wrongful incarceration of nearly 25 years for the 1987 rape and ...

They say the innocent need not fear the law, but tell that to the three Tucson juveniles bullied into falsely confessing to the August 1991 Wat Promkunaram Buddhist temple slayings after a fourth ...

A former Philadelphia homicide detective accused of beating a murder suspect to obtain a confession and then lying about it in court has ben convicted of obstruction and perjury charges. Prosecutors ...