An Arkansas lawyer has given up his law license in Arkansas and Oklahoma after acknowledging he converted more than $100,000 of law firm funds to his own use.
A part-time Arkansas judge facing a legal ethics case over accusations that he offered to reduce sentences in exchange for sexual favors has decided to resign, at the suggestion of…
A successful attempt by the FBI to access the encrypted iPhone of a man responsible for a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, may be just the beginning of a…
A former Arkansas judge was sentenced Thursday to a maximum 10-year prison term for admittedly reducing a jury verdict in the expectation of a contribution to his planned campaign for…
An Arkansas lawyer has sued the state treasurer on his own behalf, seeking a declaratory judgment that he acted in self-defense when he shoved the official at a deposition in…
Two men found delinquent as juveniles in what was then one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history were confined for less than 10 years before being released on…
An Arkansas judge should not have granted a new sentencing hearing for a death-row inmate based on his lawyer’s concession that his performance in the trial’s last phase was “a…
A federal judge has scheduled a Feb. 19 hearing to consider whether to sanction lawyers who dropped a federal case and refiled it in Arkansas state court with a proposed…
An ethics complaint accuses an Arkansas judge of inviting male offenders to report for “substitutionary sentences” at his home, where he then solicited sexual relations in exchange for reduced court…
A federal judge in Arkansas has ruled that a 40-year tradition of displaying a nativity scene on the Baxter County courthouse lawn is unconstitutional.
With the holiday season fast approaching, government officials are girding their loins for the annual battle over what displays will be permitted on public property.
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