A Pennsylvania jury conviction Wednesday night in a high-profile double-murder case was quickly followed by the arrest of the defendant’s brother after a courthouse elevator incident.
The first hearing since August in a military case against five men accused of playing a role in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks came to a sudden halt Monday.
Already convicted in a high-profile murder case concerning the 2004 slaying of his third wife and named as a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, a retired…
A veteran assistant San Francisco public defender has filed a citizen complaint against the six city police officers involved in her arrest last month in a courthouse hallway.
A resisting case will not be pursued against a veteran assistant San Francisco public defender who was handcuffed in a court hallway last month and taken away after she objected…
A courthouse cellphone spat prior to a bankruptcy meeting led to a federal prison sentence of more than two years last week for a Michigan man who was growing marijuana…
Arrested last year for playing the violin outside a federal courthouse in downtown Portland, Oregon, while naked, a suburban resident has now filed a civil rights lawsuit based, in part,…
Attorney Karla Stirling doesn’t handle criminal defense matters, or litigate much. And, although she is licensed in Utah, she primarily practices in California.
Three men on parole are facing new charges and being held in lieu of $1 million bond after allegedly beating another man outside a suburban Chicago courthouse on Monday.
As jury selection began this week in what is considered by many the highest-profile U.S. terrorism trial since Timothy McVeigh’s over the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, security was high.
Suffering from “severe financial strain” as a result of an addiction to oxycodone pills, a Massachusetts prosecutor traded confidential information from his office for the drug and took $1,500 from…
Seven courtrooms were shut down at a South Florida courthouse after a defendant in a fourth-floor holding cell broke a sprinkler and flooded the floor below.
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