If it sometimes seems as though the famous people of the world catch all the breaks, it's because they do. Just ask LeAnn Rimes who will not have to face criminal charges for her hit and run accident last month in Los Angeles. While LeAnn Rimes' hit and run case is most not the crime of the century, the fact that she won't face criminal charges for it will saves her a lot of time, aggravation and money that many of us wouldn't be so fortunate to avoid.

U.S. class-action lawyer Melvyn Weiss, famed for suing large corporations on behalf of investors, will plead guilty in a criminal case contending his firm paid secret kickbacks to plaintiffs in lawsuits, his lawyer said on Thursday.

Prison sentences handed down to counterfeiters by a Taipei, Taiwan, court mark the end of a string of successful prosecutions by international law enforcement agencies, bringing a global software counterfeiting ring to a final halt.

Virological evidence cannot prove transmission in HIV criminal cases, warn experts in this week’s BMJ.

Juries across the country make decisions every day on the fate of defendants, ideally leading to prison sentences that fit the crime for the guilty and release for the innocent. Yet a new Northwestern University study shows that juries in criminal cases many times are getting it wrong.