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O.J. Simpson was taken into custody in Florida on allegations that he violated terms of his bail by trying to talk a co-defendant out of cooperating in a Las Vegas armed robbery case, court documents say. Simpson, 60, is to go before a Nevada judge on Wednesday at the request of Clark County District Attorney […]

It was Ron Williamson’s obituary in the Dec. 9, 2004, issue of The New York Times that caught attorney and author John Grisham’s eye. “It had all the elements of a novel,” Grisham said in an interview with the Jackson Free Press. “The small town Southern feel to it; the small town sport hero going

Arizona students at universities and community colleges were denied in-state tuition this year because 4000 of them were not able to prove they were legal residents. The Arizona Republic reports that Arizona universities and colleges recently began requiring students to prove their citizenship after state voters passed Proposition 300, a ballot initiative that prevents undocumented

McNamee’s legal team say they will fight back after Roger Clemens played a taped personal phone call betweent he pitcher and his former trainer. The National Post report that McNamee’s attorneys told the New York Daily News the conversation – recorded Friday night – was supposed to be a “man-to-man talk”, but instead Clemens used

Everyday habits could become illegal under plans to modernize copyright laws in Canada. The National Post reports that taping a favourite show on television, using a personal cellphone overseas or listening to music on a newly-purchased CD. But industry officials and observers say that each activity is being threatened by existing copyright regulations and the

Some experienced solicitors are shunning legal aid work as pay rates fall, a recent survey shows. The Guardian reports that solicitors are deserting legal aid work amid a shake-up of the scheme which will see their pay rates drop further. The exodus is particularly acute among expert lawyers who represent children and parents in cases

A woman in China is making legal history by suing authorities who forced her to have an abortion despite being nine months pregnant. The Telegraph reports that Jin Yani’s waters had already broken when China’s abortion police came for her. They took her to a nearby abortion centre, injected her unborn baby girl and removed

The legal battle over lethal injection, which comes before the Supreme Court on Monday, has been conducted in unusual secrecy, with courts permitting states across the country to keep from lawyers and the public precisely how death row inmates are executed. In state after state, defense lawyers contending that the execution method inflicts unnecessary pain

The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide whether the death penalty may be imposed on someone who rapes a child, reopening the issue of which crimes are punishable by death. The court said in 1977 that execution was an “excessive penalty for the rapist who, as such, does not take human life.” But

Investigators from Scotland Yard today arrived in Pakistan to assist the investigation into the assassination of the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. The five investigators arrived at Islamabad airport but declined to speak to reporters. President Pervez Musharraf has asked for help from the British police amid accusations of lax government security when Bhutto was killed