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Despite an extraordinary effort by the district attorney’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, to reverse a murder conviction that its own prosecutors won more than two decades…

A judge has sentenced a Rhode Island man who appeared to fake his death and flee the United States to avoid arrest of at least five…

Sean Combs to be sentencedSean “Diddy” Combs will appear before a federal judge in Manhattan on Friday to be sentenced following his conviction earlier this year…

Mandelson has been sacked as ambassador to US, MPs toldStephen Doughty, a Foreign Office minister, is responding to the UQ about Peter Mandelson.He starts by making…

The controversial felony conviction of a peaceful climate activist has been overturned by an appeals court due to “pervasive” prosecutorial misconduct.Mylene Vialard, 56, was found guilty…

The court of appeal has quashed the conviction of a man who has spent 28 years in jail for a violent murder of which he has…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last week, a federal…

Tom Hayes, the first banker jailed over the Libor interest rate-rigging scandal in 2015, has cleared his name after the UK’s supreme court overturned a decade-old…