Criminal Law

The Cost of White-Collar Crime: A Case Study of a Scottsdale Couple Jailed in a $900M Fraud Scheme The Background Tom and Leslie Cavanagh, a couple from Scottsdale, Arizona, were recently sentenced to prison for their role in a $900 million Ponzi scheme. The Cavanaghs operated a company named Oxford Investments Holdings that purportedly provided […] More

Why the Young Thug case is at risk of being derailed Judge Ural Glanville removed from the case amid complaints of misconduct The highly publicized criminal racketeering trial against rapper Young Thug took an unexpected turn on Monday when Judge Ural Glanville was formally removed from the case. This followed complaints that he and prosecutors […] More

Rape, Murder, and Acid Attacks: The Case for Stricter Punishments in India India has seen an alarming increase in the number of rape, murder, and acid attack cases in recent years, with many going unreported. Such crimes are gory and have a long-lasting impact on the survivors and their families, especially in the case of […] More

Rape, Murder, and Acid Attacks: The Case for Stricter Punishments As the editor of an online legal journal, I am passionate about the law and the effects that it has on society. One area of the law that is particularly important to me is the punishment for violent crimes such as rape, murder, and acid […] More

Keeping Accused in Custody: The Case of Ronald Palmer Jr. An Overview of the Case Law enforcement officers were present at the 248th District Court on Monday, where a judge was deciding whether to keep Ronald Palmer Jr., one of the men accused of killing a Harris County deputy, behind bars without bail. Palmer faces […] More

Young Thug RICO Indictment Faces Possible Mistrial Following Judge’s Recusal Motions Seeking Recusal of Judge Granville Granted by Fulton County Judge Krause More than two years into a sweeping RICO indictment that accuses rapper Young Thug and five others of running a criminal street enterprise, the fate of the case that involves hundreds of witnesses […] More

Texas Man Scheduled to be Executed Despite Claims of Innocence and Push for DNA Testing Background Ruben Gutierrez, a 47-year-old man from Texas, has been on death row for the past 23 years. He was convicted in the fatal stabbing of Escolastica Harrison, an 85-year-old woman, at her home in Brownsville, Texas in 1998. His […] More

Texas man facing execution for 1998 killing of elderly woman for her money Ruben Gutierrez is scheduled to be executed in Texas for the murder of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in 1998. The victim was a mobile home park manager and retired teacher who was killed in her Brownsville home in an attempted robbery. Prosecutors said […] More

How Racism and Prosecutorial Misconduct Put Innocent Men on Death Row in Alameda County Background In 1995, Ernest Dykes was sentenced to death for the killing of a 9-year-old boy in Oakland, California. More than two decades later, his death sentence has been overturned, and he is set to be released next year. Today, Dykes […] More

Texas Man Scheduled to Be Executed Despite Longstanding Requests for DNA Testing The Crime Ruben Gutierrez, a Texas man, was sentenced to the death penalty in 1998 for the killing of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison. Harrison was a retired teacher and manager of a mobile home park in Brownsville, Texas. Prosecutors contended that Gutierrez killed Harrison […] More

Louisiana Man Pleads Not Guilty in Loranger Murder Case On Monday, Daniel Callihan, a man indicted federally and in two states in connection with the murder of a Loranger mother and her child, pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and second-degree kidnapping. Callihan was in court in Tangipahoa Parish for an […] More