John Thompson had spent 18 years on death row for murder and burglary, when, one month before his execution, exculpatory evidence was discovered proving his innocence. After being released, Thompson sued New Orleans District Attorney Harry Connick under Section 1983,…
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Supreme Court: Ex-Death Row Inmate Won’t Get $14 Million
New York hip hop personality DJ Megatron, 106 & Park’s host, was shot to death in Staten Island while on an early-morning marijuana run, the New York Post reports. DJ Megatron, real name Corey McGriff, was out buying marijuana and… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com
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DJ Megatron Killed While Buying Marijuana, Friend Says
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Legalese 101: What is Hearsay?
In what is believed to be the first wrongful death victory over smokeless chewing tobacco, the makers of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless chewing tobacco have been ordered to pay $5 million to the family of a long-time user. Bobby Hill…
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Makers of Skoal Smokeless Chewing Tobacco Pay $5M in Wrongful Death
Certainly one of the most talked about non-couple of the year is Mel Gibson and his former flame and baby mother Oksana Grigorieva. The couple had daughter Lucia shortly before their very dramatic split and it has been a war..
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Mel Gibson to Lose Daughter to Oksana Grigorieva?
New information has come to light about Ohio serial killing suspect
As discussed in FindLaw’s Legally Weird, a teenager in New York recently was saved by a playful message
We all know that Carrie Prejean was involved in making a sex tape that proved the undoing of her legal battle with the Miss California USA Pageant. What we don’t know is what implications that this may hold for the…