Murder defendant Christopher Wright took the witness stand Wednesday, asking a jury to believe his account of John Benjamin's slaying over those of prosecution witnesses. ...more

December 14, 2007

Christopher Wright took the witness stand Wednesday, hardly looking like someone who could have been involved in the brutal killing of John Benjamin. ...more

December 13, 2007

A Tampa police detective and an FBI agent paid large sums of money to a known thief, liar and convicted felon, using him as their chief informant during an investigation of the Latin Kings street gang, a defense attorney is trying to prove in a hearing that began Thursday. ...more

November 9, 2007

TAMPA - A Tampa police detective and an FBI agent paid large sums of money to a known thief, liar and convicted felon, using him as their chief informant during an investigation of the Latin Kings street gang, a defense attorney is trying to prove in a hearing that began Thursday. ...more

November 8, 2007

Joanna Herman had no doubt who beat her Dec. 11, 2004. It was Lawrence Tener, she said from the witness stand Thursday. ...more

November 2, 2007

When Patrisha Windham sat on the witness stand Wednesday, she saw the man charged in the 2002 slaying of Joshan Ashbrook. ...more

October 4, 2007

TAMPA - A former U.S. Special Operations Command official is seeking a new conspiracy trial, claiming the military prevented a defense witness from testifying at his last trial. Tom Spellissy, a retired Army colonel who headed one of Socom's most important acquisition offices, was sentenced to 15 months in prison last year after he claimed he had broken no laws and that the government's case against him was based on a series of lies. ...more

September 27, 2007

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction and 15-month prison sentence of a former U.S. Special Operations Command official who participated in a conspiracy. ...more

September 19, 2007

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction and 15-month prison sentence of a former U.S. Special Operations Command official who participated in a conspiracy. ...more

September 18, 2007