Updated: An Illinois lawyer has been criminally charged for allegedly behaving in “a loud or aggressive manner” while making a filing Wednesday at the Lake County Courthouse.
Judge Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has some advice for judges tempted to substitute “a superlong sentence for a merely very long sentence.”
All eyes were on the new military judge in charge of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s capital murder case on Tuesday as the former Army psychiatrist was wheeled into a court-martial…
A Colorado judge has ordered the Huerfano County board of commissioners to fix a nonworking elevator that makes the courthouse more or less inaccessible to the handicapped.
A Maryland judge has been docked five days of pay for summarily holding defendants in his court in contempt, in a consent to discipline approved Friday by the state court…
As an attempted murder trial continues this week in San Diego Superior Court, one of the three defendants will now be required to present his case with the help of…
Justice Elena Kagan highlighted a future important issue for the U.S. Supreme Court and reflected on a past high-profile remark in a speech on Thursday evening.
A California judge has been publicly admonished for saying a sexual assault victim had suffered only a “technical” rape and didn’t display vaginal damage characteristic of rape victims he had…
A group of about 20 San Diego high school students getting a civics lesson by watching testimony in a California criminal trial on Thursday morning experienced more than anyone expected.
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A judge overseeing a first-degree murder case in eastern Idaho has ordered the prosecutor and defendant Michael Sparks into mediation, to see if they can resolve the death-penalty case before…
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