Karen Read's lawyers have taken her double jeopardy appeal to the United States Supreme Court with her second trial underway ...

A Texas man accused of defrauding health care programs of more than $140 million lost his appeal to avoid retrial on the ...

As jury selection unfolds in the Karen Read retrial in Dedham her attorneys have taken their efforts to overturn the murder charge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Read, 45, is accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend John O’Keefe with her SUV and leaving him to die in a ...

Karen Read is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case as her second murder trial in the death of her boyfriend ...

Read's lawyers are seeking to ensure that "Read is not unconstitutionally forced to stand trial for criminal offenses, ...

But that was appealed to the Arkansas State Supreme Court.The Double Jeopardy Clause requires that no defendant “be subject” to prosecution twice “for the same offence.” But under the ...

The Supreme Court has tapped a former clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor to defend a lower court ruling in next term’s Barrett v. United States, a New York man’s challenge to his robbery convictions and ...

decision by a jury following trial that the prosecution failed to prove a defendant guilty of a charged offense constitutes an acquittal precluding retrial under the Double Jeopardy Clause.

The Benton County court date for a woman who pleaded guilty in federal court to killing an Arkansas woman and her unborn child in 2022 was rescheduled Monday.

Karen Read asked the Supreme Court to block her ongoing retrial on accusations she killed her police officer boyfriend until ...