Fellow jurists won’t let fear stand in way of justice
In the wake of a colleague's unimaginable loss, judges at U.S. District Court in Chicago on Tuesday continued with the day-to-day matters of jurisprudence. One held closing arguments in a...
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Bush plan to improve legal work under fire
President Bush's call for a new $50 million initiative to improve the quality of legal work in death-penalty cases falls far short of a similar measure he signed last year....
Union official seeks probe of N.J. local
A hearing officer for Laborers' International Union of North America, which represents about 800,000 workers nationwide, including 20,000 in Chicago, has urged a criminal inquiry into alleged fraud, waste and...
Bad laboratory blood analysis took 17 years of his life
This story contains corrected material, published Dec. 22, 2004. (The headline as published has been corrected in this text.) A botched analysis by a state crime lab analyst in Lubbock,...
Man executed on disproved forensics
Strapped to a gurney in Texas' death chamber earlier this year, just moments from his execution for setting a fire that killed his three daughters, Cameron Todd Willingham declared his...
Report blasts FBI lab
Top FBI fingerprint examiners gave in to peer pressure when they rushed to link an Oregon lawyer to a terrorist attack in Madrid this year, according to a panel of...
Scandal touches even elite labs
A decade ago, as Earl Washington Jr. neared his execution date, a leading DNA expert first suggested an analyst in the vaunted Virginia state crime lab might have erred in...
When labs falter, defendants pay
As John Willis sought to prove he had been wrongly convicted of a rape in the Chatham neighborhood, the Illinois State Police crime lab in Chicago came across a potential...
WHEN LABS FALTER, DEFENDANTS PAY
As John Willis sought to prove he had been wrongly convicted of a rape in the Chatham neighborhood, the Illinois State Police crime lab in Chicago came across a potential...
Arson myths fuel errors
The prosecution of Beverly Jean Long for the 2003 murder of her husband in rural Georgia reveals a tale of two mistakes. One killed her husband, James. The other put...