For the thousands of brave soldiers who have returned home from the politically divisive conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the scars of war are most visible on those veterans who have sustained devastating physical injuries. What is frequently unrecognizable but...

It is a startling fact that one in four women in the United States will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. Even more startling is that domestic violence can happen to anyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity,...

Penn State, an American bastion of athletics, academia and collegiate economic power, once served as a protective cocoon for Jerry Sandusky, shielding him for years from any form of societal suspicion or challenges by higher authorities. Yet, as the once revered football coach's sordid trial now unfolds in Pennsylvania, the...

Spreading like a wildfire, outrage over the shooting death of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has ignited an explosive national dialogue about the tumultuous and fractured status of race relations in the United States.

Rallies held across the country by prominent civil rights leaders, politicians, clergy, community organizers and...

Breaking news of the guilty verdict in the Dharun Ravi webcam spying trial reverberated swiftly across global media outlets on Friday. A strong societal message was being sent from this complex case, one that had attracted international attention from its start. This had become the landmark verdict of a new...

"Yes, I want to plead guilty. I wanted from the first moment to confess sincerely. I truly am sorry for this act. I feel very bad."

This was the forced statement muttered by the internationally notorious Joran van der Sloot in a Peruvian courtroom on Wednesday morning. On...

"He's the greatest entertainer in the world. I'm taking that money, a million children, children's hospital, the biggest in the world, Michael Jackson's Children's Hospital..."

This last sentence taken from the haunting audio recording of Michael Jackson under the influence of "unknown agents" is a key element of the...

Should Michael Jackson be blamed for his own death? Jury selection is underway and opening statements are set to commence in the Dr. Conrad Murray involuntary manslaughter trial. International headlines are shouting, "Michael Jackson drank propofol moments before he died!" These questionable pronouncements allude to the defense theory that Murray's...

Did she really write that? The accused child killer Casey Anthony included this surprising passage in a letter to a fellow inmate as she awaited her capital murder trial currently under way in Florida:

I've told you about all the mail I've gotten. I'm up to the thousands with positive...

What is Lindsay Lohan thinking? Rolling the dice, she rejected a lenient plea deal in Necklacegate, the latest albatross hanging around the troubled starlet's neck. Hoping to establish her innocence at trial, Lindsay risks being sentenced up to three years in state prison if convicted of felony grand theft. Even...

Everyone now knows that Charlie Sheen has "tiger blood" pumping wildly through his veins and "Adonis DNA" mapping a destiny of immortality. Charlie, tell us something we don't know.

Despite his purported superhuman qualities, the delusional star is currently fighting to regain custody of his twin boys, facing one...

Political power, a poignant past and the powder keg present collided magnificently at the Paley Center for Media in New York City on the evening of February 9. Former President Bill Clinton was on hand to give opening remarks for an intimate, yet pivotal conversation taking place on the cusp...

Matt Semino, 01.26.2011

Attorney and legal analyst

Brace yourself. It's starting again. The stage has been set for another legal drama featuring the King of Pop. Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, was arraigned on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court. Stating, "Your honor, I am...