Federal prosecutors have reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with investment banker Frank Quattrone that would allow Quattrone to avoid a third trial on obstruction of justice and witness tampering charges , according to sources close to the negotiations. Quattrone, one of the dot-com era's most prominent investment bankers, is accused of forwarding emails to fellow employees [...]

Saddam Hussein could continue to be tried posthumously if he is found guilty and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity charges stemming from a crackdown in the Iraqi town of Dujail, according to a US official. Hussein's second trial is scheduled to begin Monday, but a verdict has not yet been returned in the [...]

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US officials will release Murat Kurnaz , a Turkish national with ties to Germany, from Guantanamo Bay sometime next week, according to reports in the German media Saturday. Kurnaz was born in Germany and was in the process of obtaining German citizenship when he was arrested in Pakistan in 2001. He has been held at [...]

Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, the US Marines commander in charge of the battalion implicated in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha last November, did not order an immediate investigation into the deaths because he did not suspect any wrongdoing, according to a report in Saturday's Washington Post. The Post obtained a copy of [...]

US Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) said Friday that Congress should write into law some of the remedies that US District Judge Gladys Kessler imposed on the tobacco industry after finding that tobacco companies conspired to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking. Kessler ruled Thursday that the tobacco industry is liable for civil racketeering [...]

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton on Friday denied the latest request by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to access classified information to prepare his defense on obstruction of justice and perjury charges in connection to the leak of former CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity . Walton has granted Libby's defense team access to other classified [...]

Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2005, Department of Homeland Security, July 18, 2006 . Read the full text of the report . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

The Supreme Court of Chile on Friday stripped former dictator Augusto Pinochet of immunity from additional tax fraud charges, allowing prosecutors to continue with a $27 million fraud case stemming from an investigation of Pinochet's secret offshore back accounts that was established by the former dictator under false names. Chilean legal procedure requires prosecutors to [...]

After a federal judge ruled the NSA domestic surveillance program unconstitutional on Thursday, President Bush said Friday in an appearance at Camp David that he believes the ruling will be overturned on appeal. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal hours after the opinion was released, signaling its intent to challenge [...]