A man who broke into a Missouri prosecutor’s home last year, vandalizing it and nearby property as he drove around in the prosecutor’s two vehicles, has been sentenced to prison…
A Georgia sheriff says employees responsible for leaving two teens in a courthouse lockup over the weekend, without access to food or toilet paper, have been suspended, demoted or transferred.
A village judge in New York state faked a claimed attack last year in which he said he was struck in the head with a toilet-tank cover outside the courthouse…
Already serving a prison term of between four and 13 years for burglary, an inmate accused of plotting to kill the Pennsylvania judge who sentenced him is now being tried…
Two mistrials were declared last week, on two successive days, after Derek Hubbard reportedly created a courtroom disturbance on Monday and then created another disturbance and attacked his public defender…
Not quite a month after loudly challenging a public defender and inviting him outside the courtroom for a fight—and reportedly striking him—Brevard County Judge John C. Murphy apologized and returned…
Updated: A Nevada businessman who unsuccessfully sought to withdraw from a plea deal after he stabbed his wife to death and shot at a Reno divorce judge sniper-style through a…
A police officer accidentally fired a rifle in front of a judge during a training exercise Wednesday morning in a hallway outside a South Florida courtroom.
“I don’t owe anyone $100 billion,” former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald testified in federal court in Chicago this week, and a jury apparently believed him.
Barred from the federal courthouse in Chicago and forbidden to make filings on behalf of a brother who had pleaded guilty in a drug case, Cherron Phillips allegedly tried another…
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