When Zac Weiland walked into court on Friday, the assistant Utah prosecutor heard scratching sounds: Bats were in the ceiling, walls and stairwells of the Washington County Justice Center, and…
A suburban Chicago judge was taken to a hospital for treatment Thursday after being attacked by a defendant in an aggravated battery case, immediately after a court hearing, sheriff’s officials…
A former employee of a Florida court clerk’s office is serving three years for selling information from a driver’s license database to Derek Denesevich.
After his handcuffs were removed in anticipation of sentencing, a convicted murderer reportedly stood behind one of his lawyers in a an Oklahoma courthouse conference room on Friday and slashed…
Threats have been made against a federal judge overseeing the New York prosecution of a man accused of masterminding the underground ‘Silk Road” website on which bitcoins were used to…
Five months ago, after a violation of the rule banning photography in hallways and other public areas of the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, the North Carolina court’s senior resident judge met…
A Maryland judge decided to require a murder defendant to wear an ankle bracelet that can transmit an electric shock at trial after he threatened her, the judge said, by…
Updated: It appears that a call by the public defender for the state of Maryland to ban a senior circuit court judge from hearing cases may have been heeded by…
An Iowa man who had been embroiled for years in a property tax dispute with Jackson County officials died Tuesday of a gunshot wound at the conclusion of a government…
A federal judge who was No. 5 on an alleged 16-name “hit list” found among the belongings of a Delaware courthouse shooter (one of the two women killed was No.…
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