Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday sharply criticized state police detectives for obtaining a questionable confession during a ...

The Colorado Supreme Court recently announced it will determine whether a convicted defendant should receive a new trial after detectives interrogated him without probable cause and while executing a ...

That's the question Mohammad Jawad's defense attorneys are trying to answer with a motion filed Wednesday afternoon in the Guantanamo detainee's habeas petition, charting a course into some new legal ...

The state's highest court ruling today that video of the sealed police interrogation of Danvers High teacher-killer Philip Chism can be viewed by reporters or members of the public. But the SJC also ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal court in San Francisco has taken the unusual step of using the word “torture” to describe the treatment of a Palestinian man while he was in CIA custody following the ...

The Washington State Supreme Court has issued a ruling that has the potential to redefine warrantless interrogations and seizures, a protocol police refer to as “Terry stops.” Thursday’s ruling ...

NASHUA — New evidence claims that a former Nashua police captain may have threatened a murder suspect during a 1988 interrogation, allegedly telling the suspect that he would face the death penalty ...

NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today alerted a California federal appellate court that the government's assertion of the "state secrets" privilege in an extraordinary rendition case has ...

Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that the requirement for parents to be present when police interrogate their child in custody means only that the parent must be “physically present,” ...

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) -- A man convicted of killing a cab driver is to get a new trial after the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it was improper for police to question him before telling him ...