Lt. Col. Michael Schrama is the fifth judge in the case. He was playing college football during the year of the Sept. 11 ...

He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security ...

Thomas Anthony Durkin, an internationally prominent criminal defense attorney who for five decades was a fixture in Chicago's ...

Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been ...

Georgetown University Law professor Stephen Vladeck explains where things stand with the 9/11 Guantanamo cases now that the plea deals have been canceled.

Durkin died Monday after a brief battle with cancer, said a daughter, Alanna Durkin Richer, an Associated Press journalist in ...

Longtime criminal defense attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin, known as a tireless advocate for his clients who enjoyed holding ...

Longtime criminal defense attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin, known as a fierce advocate for his clients who enjoyed holding the ...

Louisiana, long known for its 'prison economy,' now houses more ICE detention facilities than any other non-border state.

The prisoner swap with Venezuela was tricky to pull off. These things always are. I know because I brokered one between the ...

Here’s a look at the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, which killed 224 people. Terrorist group al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the bombings. Facts The bombings too ...