After nearly 9 1/2 hours of deliberation, jurors decided they needed some sleep before determining whether Deneilo Bradshaw fatally shot confidential drug informant Rachel Hoffman in a botched drug sting. ...more

December 16, 2009

Last week, in the trial of one of two men accused of slaying confidential informant Rachel Hoffman, state attorneys questioned some 30 witnesses to paint a picture of Deneilo Bradshaw's actions before and after Hoffman's death. ...more

December 15, 2009

The trial of seven Pakistani men accused of involvement in last year's Mumbai terrorist attacks was postponed by a week Saturday after the defense failed to appear in court as part of a daylong lawyers' strike, an attorney said. ...more

December 6, 2009

The father of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter says he was criticized by a prosecutor for his testimony about the role Smith's former boyfriend had in her medication. ...more

October 19, 2009

With chants of "No justice in Tampa," Johnnie Compton and about a dozen like-minded supporters picketed the Hillsborough County Courthouse on Friday over a judge's decision to release a sex offender on bail pending his appeal. ...more

March 28, 2009

With chants of "No justice in Tampa," Johnnie Compton and about a dozen like-minded supporters picketed the Hillsborough County Courthouse today over a judge's decision to release a sex offender on bail pending his appeal. ...more

March 27, 2009

The new defense lawyer for David Earley, who owes more than $377,000 in child support to his ex-wife and four children, says Earley might deserve a break because of mental illness or drug addiction. ...more

March 25, 2009

Marcelino "Bubba" Huerta III, a prominent defense lawyer in Tampa whom colleagues called a consummate professional, died Thursday. He was 56. ...more

March 22, 2009

What deputies thought were pipe bombs and prosecutors describe as dangerous explosives were actually harmless, homemade model rockets, a defense lawyer told jurors as the trial of Youssef Megahed opened this morning. ...more

March 18, 2009

The Justice Department may have hoodwinked former USF professor Sami Al-Arian in into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from prosecutions, a federal judge said. ...more

March 9, 2009