After a month of trial and more than a week of jury deliberation in the political corruption trial of former U.S. Sen. John Edwards, there’s still no sign of a…
In a landmark North Carolina ruling that is the first to apply the state Racial Justice Act to the case of a death row inmate, a Cumberland County judge has…
Jury selection begins in Greensboro, N.C., today in the federal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards, accused of using campaign funds to hide his affair with Rielle Hunter.
A former securities lawyer was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison by a federal judge in North Carolina for his role in what prosecutors said was a multimillion-dollar investment…
A lawyer who refused to respond to a discovery request in a North Carolina attorney disciplinary matter has had her subsequent disbarment reversed based on a due process violation.
A North Carolina judge who handled at least 82 traffic tickets outside the normal legal process—and probably many more, the state supreme court said—has been suspended without pay for 75…
A North Carolina judge today ordered the Durham County district attorney removed from office due at least in large part to her inflammatory criticism of a top criminal judge.
A North Carolina judge has been removed from hearing criminal cases and is being investigated concerning a claim by the Wake County District Attorney of a “disturbing pattern of what…
A suspended North Carolina prosecutor accused of withholding exculpatory evidence from defendants and misrepresenting facts in pleadings and during court arguments took the stand in her own defense Friday at…
A federal judge has given a green light both to a race discrimination suit filed against Mayer Brown by a fired former associate and a counterclaim in which the law…
A judge brought in to hear a lawyer’s petition for removal of a North Carolina district attorney has suspended her from office, finding probable cause that she should be permanently…
A death row inmate in North Carolina has written a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper in which he gloats about his life in prison and dares the state to…
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