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.
Initially convicted by a federal jury in a bankruptcy fraud case related to a client real estate developer’s financial collapse, an Arkansas attorney is now in the clear.
The chief judge of a suburban county in the Chicago area says better security is needed in its satellite traffic courts to prevent judges from being targeted by disgruntled defendants.
A former Arkansas judge who pleaded guilty earlier this year in a federal bribery case concerning his reduction of a jury award from over $5 million to $1 million has…
An Arkansas lawyer is facing a felony drug-possession charge after a plastic bag containing methamphetamine allegedly fell out of his pocket while he was a customer at a local bank.
Responding to news of parents placing children they find difficult to deal with in the care of strangers they identify as potential caretakers via the Internet, a growing number of…
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