New York state’s highest court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of robbery after being identified in a photo array by the victim’s son. The court determined that a lower court had “fatally undermined” the defendant’s rights by not reopening a hearing into the propriety of the son’s participation.

New York’s highest court has upheld a college student’s conviction for the murder of his father, a state court law clerk, and a near-fatal attack against his mother.

Massachusetts’ highest court has stripped a prominent Boston attorney of his law license for a year and a day after finding that he assisted in the unauthorized practice of law. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled last week that criminal defense attorney Stephen Hrones violated ethics rules by operating a practice with an unlicensed law graduate who was handling discrimination cases.

If executives at a public company commit fraud that comes back to cost the company, can shareholders go after the company’s auditors for missing the fraud? Plaintiffs lawyer Stuart Grant says the answer has too often been no, with courts denying shareholders the right to pursue malpractice claims against auditors.

California’s highest court on Wednesday refused to order Gov.