Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in 1979, should be retried or released, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based ...

A judge has ordered the Los Angeles DA to explain why evidence was withheld in the Menendez brothers' trial. New evidence suggests sexual abuse by their father, which could alter their 1996 murder ...

The judge responded, without further explanation, "the answer is, no." Pedro Hernandez, right, appears in Manhattan criminal court with his attorney Harvey Fishbein, in New York, Nov. 15, 2012.

But on Monday, a federal appeals court overturned the conviction because of how the trial judge handled a note from the jury during Hernandez’s second trial, which took place in 2017 — the ...

All rise, again. Judge Judy is back on the TV bench with "Justice on Trial," and that death stare still slices through the legal bull as if it never stopped. Judith Sheindlin, 82, who became TV's ...

Ron Frehm/AP - PHOTO: Stanly Patz, along with his son Ari, holds a photo of his son Etan, in New York, May 18, 1985. Etan Patz vanished in 1979 after leaving his family's SoHo home for a short ...

Because of the lack of physical evidence, the trial -- Hernandez's second, after the first jury hung -- hinged entirely on Hernandez's purported confessions to luring Etan into a basement as he walked ...