Updated: A Florida judge told a veteran public defender to step outside the courtroom on Monday, then punched the attorney until sheriff’s deputies broke up the altercation, WFTV…
A member of the public who parks in a special area of a Queens Supreme Court parking lot reserved for police officers transporting prisoners can be fined over $100 and…
William Ray Phillips would have liked to have arranged for a contract hit on a Texas district attorney, a state-court judge and a federal judge, authorities say.
A retired Pennsylvania judge charged with stealing drugs from evidence files while he was still on the bench is challenging a search of his Washington County Courthouse chambers authorized two…
Three men who were no-shows for the guilty verdict in a major federal drug case in Detroit on May 12, after appearing in court earlier the same day, are still…
A seemingly innocuous remark at a murder case arraignment Tuesday afternoon erupted into a war of words between two families, brawling, a court panic alarm and a foot chase as…
A 41-year-old man arrested Monday morning as he allegedly tried to bring a loaded gun into a Texas courthouse was there for a divorce case hearing involving his estranged wife,…
Apparently aware that their case wasn’t going well, three defendants in a major drug case in Detroit appeared in federal court Monday at the conclusion of a two-week trial but…
For months, a lecturer at a Pakistani university jailed in a blasphemy case was unable to find a lawyer to represent him: They feared violent reprisals and even death at…
Updated: A defendant in a federal racketeering trial was shot multiple times in the chest by a federal marshal Monday after he lunged toward the witness stand holding a pen…
Two additional suspects have been named in the kidnapping of a North Carolina prosecutor’s father earlier this month and one has been taken into custody.
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