Judge Michael Hunter has granted Leon Davis' motion to dismiss his standby counsel, Stephen Fisher, in a pair of cases involving five slayings. ...more

November 20, 2008

Death penalty cases, by their very nature, are significantly different court proceedings than, say, a drug trafficking case. ...more

November 19, 2008

After promising to help prosecute old murder cases from the civil rights era, the FBI has done little but let those cases get even colder. ...more

September 19, 2008

NORTH PORT - A year after 6-year-old Coralrose Fullwood's body was found in an empty North Port lot, Police Chief Terry Lewis called a news conference to remind the public that the case had not gone cold and that the person or persons who committed the crime would be caught. ...more

August 14, 2008

BRADENTON - A Lakewood Ranch High School star athlete and his friend have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death and robbery of a 19-year-old man, opening up the possibility for the state to mount a death penalty case. ...more

July 30, 2008

SEBRING — With 13 murder cases on his hands, Assistant State Attorney Steve Houchin is just running from one thing to another – his words. If it's not Joshua Altersberger, it's Leslie Lewis, Albert Stevens, Brandon Johns, Arthur Aul, Terrence Barnett, Leann Parker, Silvia Zanchez, Donald Henry, Edgar Otero, Joseph Graham, Gerald Sanders or Nicholas Mezie. ...more

May 8, 2008

After beating the rap a decade ago in one of the most sensational murder cases in U.S. history, O.J. Simpson could be looking at hard time if convicted in a seemingly half-baked scheme to grab some sports memorabilia he claimed belonged to him. ...more

November 8, 2007

A convicted bank robber charged with killing two armored car guards spotted the vehicle on the road, followed it to an ATM and shot the guards as they serviced the machine, a homicide detective said Saturday. ...more

October 7, 2007