WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fury that ace pitcher Roger Clemens made his son's chronic illness public prompted the star witness in Clemens' perjury trial to hand over stashed medical waste to agents probing drug use in baseball, the witness testified on Tuesday. Brian McNamee, Clemens' former trainer, said he fell out with Clemens in January 2008 when the former pitching star played a 17-minute tape ...

Lawyers in Mich. serial stabbings trial poised to offer a difficult defense: mental illness

With her family – but not her children – in the courtroom, Montgomery County prosecutors asked a judge Thursday to allow them to turn over any grand jury testimony to defense attorneys for Verna McCla

Evidence, jury selection questioned A defense attorney for George Huguely V has filed a motion in a Charlottesville, Va., court requesting a retrial for the former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of second-degree murder and grand larceny in the 2010 beating death of his former girlfriend, Yeardley Love.

Elias Abuelazam dutifully tended the cash register at a party store for $10 an hour. But after punching out, according to police, he was a different, dangerous guy, repeatedly faking car trouble in the wee hours then stabbing strangers who responded to his appeal for help.

The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments have spent almost $2 billion since 2001 to buy drugs to treat mental illness and post-traumatic stress disorder despite growing evidence some of those drugs exacerbate PTSD symptoms, a Nextgov investigation shows. In addition, military research released this week highlighted that Defense faces what one Army clinician called an epidemic of mental ...

The rape and beating of state school board member Kathy Taft was fueled by a perfect storm of drugs, alcohol, mental illness and a compulsive need for an adrenaline rush, a defense attorney for the man charged in her death told jurors Wednesday.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's defense minister says about 3,000 soldiers have been sent to bolster security along the border with Colombia after the neighboring country's main rebel group staged a deadly attack on a Colombian army patrol from Venezuelan territory.

(Reuters) - The lawyer assigned to handle the defense of Pedro Hernandez, the man who police say has confessed to strangling Etan Patz 33 years ago, has a track record of representing high-profile homicide defendants with a history of mental illness. Harvey Fishbein, a 39-year veteran of criminal defense law in New York, was assigned to represent Hernandez at his arraignment on Friday. Fishbein ...

Attorneys for former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely V of Chevy Chase have asked for a new trial, arguing that the trial judge’s decision to move forward with testimony after one defense lawyer was too ill to attend court for two days violated Huguely’s sixth amendment right to counsel of his own choosing. Read full article >>