When a case spirals out of control, Tom Mesereau gets the call. He won an acquittal for Michael Jackson in a child molestation case that was followed by millions.
Harland Braun defends plenty of celebrities, but he often doesn't know what made them famous.
The acting president of Kyrgyzstan said when it comes to the recent ethnic clashes in her country, she would multiply the official death toll by 10, according to the Russian news website Kommersant.
CNN's Matthew Chance crosses the border into southern Kyrgyzstan, to see the plight of displaced ethnic Uzbeks.
CNN's Ram Ramgopal has a rare look at the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka, trapped between rebels and the army.
A panel of nine men and three women is hearing evidence against Phil Spector in the 2003 death of actress Lana Clarkson. They include a journalist once assigned to the case, the estranged wife of a convicted murderer, a civil engineer working on his PhD and a Broadway actor-turned-film executive. The average age of the panel is 48, about two decades younger than the defendant.
Miami lawyer Kendall Coffey, a former U.S. attorney and frequent CNN guest analyst, takes a wry look at the best and worst the legal world had to offer in 2005.
Robert Blake on Friday was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the estate of his slain wife and ordered by a jury to pay her children $30 million in damages.
Deliberations were postponed Thursday in actor Robert Blake's wrongful-death trial after a juror called in sick.
Actor Robert Blake said he always will be "sorry and deeply saddened" by the slaying of his wife and lashed out at the news media in a CNN interview Monday night.
Robert Blake walked out of court a free man Wednesday after a jury acquitted him of the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, his wife of six months and the mother of his 4-year-old daughter.
Members of the jury that acquitted "Baretta" star Robert Blake in the 2001 death of his wife said Thursday "a lot of discussion" and a thorough review of the evidence led to their decision.
Four years of a real-life crime story ended Wednesday for actor Robert Blake, the star of "In Cold Blood" and "Baretta," when a California jury acquitted him of murder in the 2001 slaying of his wife.
The fate of Robert Blake is now in the hands of five men and seven women who began deliberating late last week in the 71-year-old actor's murder trial.
Robert Blake may be the star of his own murder trial, but a prosecutor began her closing arguments Wednesday by giving credit to the peripheral characters who testified during the 10-week trial -- the colorful and often troubled witnesses whose testimony against the actor may greatly influence the jurors' final decision about how Blake's biggest role will end.
Once, just this once, I will forgo an analysis of facts supporting guilt or innocence in a high-profile murder trial, this time California v. Robert Blake. Guilt or innocence aside, the case has already morphed from a single murder count into a double murder. Bonny Lee Bakley was murdered and buried along with another victim, her reputation.
Prosecutors in the murder trial of Robert Blake allege that the defendant's behavior on the night his wife was slain -- including evidence that he vomited before and after Bonny Lee Bakley's death -- point to the actor's guilt.
Several witnesses who had brief interactions with Robert Blake on the night his wife was slain testified Thursday at the actor's murder trial that his behavior seemed normal.
This week in America's courtrooms we have seen tragedy all around. I'm not referring to Michael Jackson's flulike symptoms that brought jury selection to a halt or to Robert Blake's crying jag in front of the jury.
About three weeks before Robert Blake's wife was killed, the actor's housekeeper noticed a man sitting in a strange car across the street, a "curious" sighting, she thought, because it was the second time in two weeks.
When Robert Blake faced the prospect of life with Bonny Lee Bakley, he called a friend in New Jersey who used to run around with mobsters and made him an offer the actor hoped he couldn't refuse.
A few weeks before his wife was murdered, actor Robert Blake offered a stuntman $10,000 and suggested four ways she could be killed, a witness told jurors Monday.
Robert Blake may have been suspect No. 1 in his wife's murder, but that didn't stop the lead investigator from considering hundreds of other potential clues, the detective testified on the stand Thursday in the "Baretta" star's murder trial.
When Robert Blake's wife was slain, detectives searching her living quarters found foot lockers crammed with letters from "customers" of her mail-order sex scam but decided not to investigate most of them, the lead detective on the case testified.
Stuntman Gary McLarty had a secret that was burning a hole in his gut.
Bonny Lee Bakley was so determined to marry a celebrity, a witness testified Tuesday in Robert Blake's murder trial, that seven months before her shooting death, she signed a temporary custody agreement with Blake that her attorney warned her was a "set up for disaster."
After learning he had gotten Bonny Lee Bakley pregnant, Robert Blake schemed to have her killed if she wouldn't abort the baby, a witness told jurors Thursday in the actor's murder trial.
A forensics expert who found gunshot residue particles on Robert Blake's hands and clothes told jurors Tuesday that the evidence does not link the actor to his wife's shooting.
Jurors saw graphic photos of dried vomit and the bloody car seat where Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death during a meticulous cross-examination Tuesday of a forensics expert in actor Robert Blake's murder trial.
A waitress who had served Blake "hundreds of times" at Vitello's Italian restaurant testified Wednesday that the actor's appearance changed so drastically in the minutes after his wife was killed that she thought he was the one who needed an ambulance.
A woman who witnessed Robert Blake crying for help the night his wife was shot to death told jurors Tuesday that "something was not quite right" about the actor's behavior.
A physician testified in late December in the murder trial of actor Robert Blake that he heard and watched the actor crying out for assistance on the night his wife was shot to death, but he did not offer aid because he feared for his safety and did not perceive the actor's pleas to be genuine.
Portions of Robert Blake's jailhouse interview with ABC will be admitted as evidence during the actor's murder trial, slated to begin next week, a judge ruled Wednesday.
The stolen computer that delayed opening statements in actor Robert Blake's murder trial has been recovered and two people have been arrested, the computer's owner and police said Tuesday.
The theft of a computer last week from the home of Robert Blake's attorney has prompted a delay in the opening of the actor's murder trial.
Robert Blake's lawyer said Thursday he hopes to go forward with his client's murder trial despite the theft of a computer that contained what a court representative described as "the heart and soul of the defense case."
A judge ruled Tuesday that actor Robert Blake's civil rights were violated when a reporter was allowed to accompany police during a search of Blake's home.
A judge denied a request Thursday by actor Robert Blake's lawyers to introduce allegations linking the son of Marlon Brando to the 2001 killing of Blake's wife, a crime with which Blake is charged.
In this world saturated with the misfortune of political correctness, I guess you could call me "pop culturally challenged." I just don't get it.
After more than two weeks without an attorney, actor Robert Blake -- who is accused of killing his wife -- told a judge Monday he has been unable to find a lawyer to represent him.
California's law schools turn out some great trial lawyers. And actor Robert Blake seems bent on meeting all of them, one at a time.
Actor Robert Blake's murder trial came to a screeching halt Thursday when the presiding judge agreed to release Blake's second lead attorney, who cited unspecified "irreconcilable differences" between him and his famous client.
A California judge Thursday dismissed Robert Blake's lawyer from the actor's case, a move expected to delay the murder trial indefinitely.
The judge in the Robert Blake murder case Monday turned down a motion to reconsider her earlier refusal to allow cameras in the courtroom throughout the upcoming trial.
Robert Blake's lawyers say jurors should learn all about the wife he is charged with killing, the two men who say he tried to hire them to do it, and a failed effort by police to prove that motor oil was used to obliterate fingerprints on the murder weapon.
The jury selection process in the Robert Blake murder case has began more than a month earlier than expected and for nearly a week before word leaked out.
Several high-profile criminal cases that gained attention during protracted, pre-trial proceedings in 2003 appear destined to become the big trials of the dawning new year.
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