http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com Daily News News from Criminal Law Lawyer Source en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 PST http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/enron-ceo-appeal.html Former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling's appeal of his criminal conviction and sentence was turned down in a federal appeals court, Jan. 6, in New Orleans. In 2006, a jury found Skilling, now 58, guilty of 19 counts regarding:... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/madoff-red-flagged.html Bernard Madoff, the disgraced financier, who was arrested for fraud after bilking investors out of $50 billion, has been free on bail since his Dec. 11 arrest. On Jan. 5, federal pro... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/court-mentally-ill-drug.html Each year, the criminal cases of hundreds of defendants who are drug-addicted and/or mentally ill are handled in a unique court in Santa Clara County, California. Thursday afternoon and Friday morning in a courtroom in San Jose — the county seat — Sup... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/dna-evidence-murder-overturned.html Miguel Roman, 52, was released from prison, Dec. 19, after serving 20 years of a 60-year murder sentence; a crime that recent DNA evidence proved he couldn't have committed. His thrilled family accompanied him out of... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/new-york-police-assault.html In the summer of 2008, Christopher Long attended a protest held in Times Square in New York City as part of a bike ride organized to promote alternatives to gas-fueled transportation. Another person at the protest happened to catch on video an incident which was later watched by some 1.6 million... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/texas-death-sentence.html Executions in the state of Texas, widely known as the state that hands out the most death sentences in the U.S., reached a historic low in 2008, with only nine individuals sentenced to die by juries... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/minnesota-assault.html A Willmar, Minnesota man was charged Dec. 11 with fifth-degree assault and disorderly conduct for using a "supersoaker" squirt gun filled with fox urine to spray a group of teenagers on his prope... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/nyc-police-assault.html A grand jury in New York City voted to indict three police officers, Dec. 6, on assault charges. The officers allegedly beat and used a police baton to sodomize a man last October in a Brooklyn subway stat... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/boy-dead-chief-indicted.html -December 4, 2008The chief of police of Pelham, Massachusetts, two other men, and the Westfield Sportsman's Club (WSC) were indicted in Hampshire County today on charges of involuntary... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/michigan-child-abuse.html Anthony and Marsha Springer, the father and stepmother of 16-year-old Calista Springer were each charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of... Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:56:52 EDT