Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals News

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be UPDATED from second spy hearing at 4:30 p.m. EST. By CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI A convicted Cuban spy's prison term has been reduced from life to 30 years after an appeals court ruled the original sentence was too severe.

The Court affirmed the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which ruled [opinion, PDF] that there is no such right to an immediate appeal.

Consider now-Eleventh Circuit judge Rosemary Barkett's ruling for a Florida appellate court in State v. Bivona .

By Gene Policinski There are a lot of things to be thankful for this holiday season.

A federal appeals panel has sided with Whitfield County deputies in a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman who died in 2005 after she was shocked with a Taser.

The United States Supreme Court for the third time declined to hear the appeal of Carlton Gary, moving the man known as the 'Stocking Strangler' closer to execution in Georgia's death chamber.

Returning from its Thanksgiving break, the Supreme Court on Monday issued a powerful unsigned "per curiam" opinion agreeing that the ineffective assistance of counsel for Florida death row inmate George Porter Jr.

Wilson sat on the three-judge panel that signed off on the federal government's decision to send young Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba to be with his father.

There are a lot of things to be thankful for this holiday season. I'm thankful for Will Phillips.

Prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss money laundering and other charges against Ben Kuehne, 54, who represented Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 Florida vote recount and was a member of the Florida Bar board of governors.

No more jumps out of the page and slaps you in the face, but the Eleventh Circuit still does not think that a worker often called a boya established a racially hostile environment.

OKLAHOMA CITY Across the country, every day, people purchase homes and real estate.

By THOMAS JENKINS Staff Writer A Big Spring transient convicted of two counts of kidnapping in 2008 has filed to have his case reviewed by the 11th District Court of Appeals.

Actor Wesley Snipes is set to ask a federal appeals panel to overturn his three federal tax convictions.

A federal jury on Wednesday acquitted a Columbus, Ga., criminal defense lawyer on all counts of a money laundering and drug conspiracy indictment that had also charged him with the attempted bribery of an Assistant U.S. Attorney.

ATLANTA a ' In a decision rendered Tuesday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has partially upheld a U.S. District Court ruling granting former Dougherty District Attorney Ken Hodges immunity from lawsuits stemming from the case of a former Dougherty County assistant police chief, Woodrow "Woody" Hart, who claimed Hodges violated his rights in 2003 ...

Lawyers for a man facing the death penalty for killing two police officers over a land dispute with South Carolina highway officials are appealing his conviction to the state's highest court.

The mayor of Newton Falls is officially back in office after resigning last summer, and then rescinding the resignation only two days later.

Like the tail on a comet , home foreclosures continue to pour off into the slipstream left by the real estate meltdown.

A federal appeals court says a former HealthSouth executive should go to prison for his role in a huge accounting fraud at the Birmingham-based rehabilitation chain.