The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a case arguing that if a defendant agrees to separate trials on charges based on the same facts and is acquitted at one, he can get out of the second trial by invoking the Constitution’s ban on double jeopardy. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former Stanford Financial Group executive convicted for his role in Robert Allen Stanford’s $ 7 billion Ponzi scheme has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the government is downplaying a circuit split on whether convictions should be overturned on errors in jury instruction. Law360: acquitted

Pennsylvania’s Court of Judicial Discipline on Thursday found that a former Philadelphia Traffic Court judge who dodged federal ticket fixing charges violated state judicial ethics rules and the state constitution by providing “special consideration” for friends, family and politically connected individuals. Law360: acquitted

Adam Freedman has written an interesting piece on getting sued even though you may have been in the right. For instance, Freedman covers the case where a burger breaks into the home and is shot dead by the homeowner. The homeowner is then sued by the family of the burglar and then forced to pay a settlement, when they are ...