Baze v. Rees, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase...

Begay v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 . Read the full text...

Burgess v. United States, US Supreme Court, April 16, 2008 [holding that a defendant's federal sentence can be enhanced under the Controlled Substances Act when the defendant has been previously convicted of a state drug offense punishable by more than...

Zimbabwean police have arrested more than 50 members of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after the party called for a strike to protest the nondisclosure of the results of the March 29 presidential elections [JURIST...

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling came in Baze v. Rees [Duke Law case...

The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Wednesday, including Burgess v. US , where the Court held that a defendant's federal drug sentence can be enhanced...

The Supreme Court of Peru on Tuesday upheld a prison sentence for former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori , who was convicted late last year on charges of abuse of authority for ordering a...

US federal prosecutors defended the prison treatment of accused enemy combatant Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri in documents filed Tuesday with the US Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit. Prosecutors say that although...

An Iranian appeals court Tuesday upheld the sentences of three Iranian students on charges of insulting Islam. Majid Tavakoli, Ahmed Ghassaban, and Ehsan Mansouri were arrested last year for allegedly publishing anti-Islamic material in multiple newspapers. The...

A judge in Zimbabwe on Wednesday cleared two foreign journalists of charges of reporting on the country's March 29 presidential election without obtaining proper credentials. Barry Bearak of the New York Times and Stephen Bevan of Britain's...