On June 22, 1933, Judge Horton convened his court. Expecting it to be a filing for a new trial, the first step for an appeal to higher courts, Leibowitz did not attend. But instead of listening to ...

A couple’s wrongful-death lawsuit against the Landon School over their teenage son’s suicide can move forward after a judge ruled they raised sufficient allegations that the all-boys prep ...

to prosecutor Thomas Knight, on a proposed compromise, December 1936. Attorney Samuel Leibowitz with the Scottsboro boys, Courtesy: Morgan County Archives. When Haywood Patterson was found guilty ...

He faces up to 30 years in prison on each of the charges at his May 5 sentencing before U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz. READ MORE: American founder of orphanage in Haiti is charged with ...

A jury in Miami has convicted the founder of an orphanage in Haiti of sexually abusing boys at the facility in Port-au-Prince.

Carlos Abreu, a 36-year-old resident of Sunrise, Florida, has pleaded guilty to a series of federal offenses, including ...

After the Patterson trial, Bates discovered that she was the target of much of the hate and resentment that had previously been focused on defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz and the Communists of ...

A Maryland judge indicated Friday he would likely allow a wrongful-death lawsuit against a Bethesda prep school to move forward, signaling a potential legal win for the parents of a teen seeking ...