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The attorney for Peru murder suspect Joran van der Sloot said he's going to ask the judge in charge of the case to strike down his client's confession because he was not being properly represented at the time he was interrogated, lawyer Maximo Altez told CNN affiliate Panamericana TV in an interview that aired Thursday.

Former NBA star Jayson Williams was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for fatally shooting a hired limo driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey by tearfully apologizing to the victim's family. He will be eligible for parole in 18 months.

An attorney testified that the fourth wife of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson talked about extorting money from her husband just days before she vanished in 2007.

An Italian court began deliberations Friday in the year-long trial of American student Amanda Knox, who is charged with murdering ...

Women police officers investigating the murder of British student Meredith Kercher "had it in" for suspect Amanda Knox because of a sex toy, a court has heard, Sky News reported.

Prosecutors on Saturday were expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.

A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found innocent in her death....

Rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller was convicted Tuesday of second-degree murder for the 2002 shooting of a fan at a nightclub, capping tumultuous jury deliberations at his second trial in the killing. Please note, this is not ironic. His name involved murder and he murdered someone.

German prosecutors have formally charged John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder.

A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted a 23-year-old medical student on seven counts, including first-degree murder, in the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels.