A former British police officer has been convicted of murdering his American wife with a rubber mallet, and then trying to stage the murder as a suicide.
In his latest court appearance, Michael O'Driscoll, a 26-year-old man with a staggering 59 previous theft convictions, told a judge that he has changed this time.
A woman once dubbed "The Black Widow" in connection with the 1994 death of her husband had her murder conviction dismissed Monday after two decades in prison.
In total, the 'Save Wade Steven Wilson' FUNDLY campaign has raised more than $70,000. A woman donated a whopping $24,000 to a fundraiser aimed at saving convicted killer Wade Wilson from the death penalty and affording him a new defense team.
Daniel Messel, who received an 80-year prison sentence last fall for killing IU student Hannah Wilson, appears in court for new sexual assault charges on the same day he files an appeal over the murder conviction.
A New Plymouth pharmacist convicted of possession and knowledge of child pornography is censured and struck off as a pharmacist by the Health Practitioners Tribunal.
A California judge granted Kanye West's request to clear his record from a battery charge conviction last 2014. The criminal blank slate comes almost three years after West attacked a cameraman outside LAX airport in July.
An Arizona woman was charged of fraud and other cases for falsifying documents stating that she needs abortion as this puts her life at risk since she has sarcoma that is needed to be removed. She also forged a letter from a doctor to continue with her scheme just to secure tax-funded abortion.
A target of an espionage case who was convicted of child pornogaphy is asking the court to grant him a new trial. He claims the warrant for his conviction was obtained for a crime for which he was not charged.
David Sweat, the convicted killer and escapee was given maximum penalty by the Clinton County Court. After the hearing, Sweat apologized for the fear and trauma he caused to the community.
Italy's top court on Friday annulled the conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher and, in a surprise verdict, acquitted her of the charge.
Louisiana's attorney general disagreed on Friday with a federal court ruling overturning the conviction of the last of the prisoners known as the "Angola Three," who has spent 42 years in solitary confinement.
Several U.S. appeals court judges appeared skeptical on Thursday about the Department of Justice's attempt to preserve a criminal conviction against baseball home run king Barry Bonds that resulted from a steroids probe.
Shigeru Echigo, Deutsche Bank AG Japan salesman plead guilty to bribery but said such activities were condoned and even encouraged in the brokerage firm.
A case on appeal would need to determine if there is a need to prove benefit redounding to tipper to be known by tippee in order to be convicted of insider trading.
A New York state appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Anthony Marshall, who was found guilty in 2009 of siphoning millions of dollars from socialite Brooke Astor's estate.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted on a host of federal corruption charges - guilty of 24 criminal counts, including racketeering, extortion and bribery.
