625 ABA Journal Court Security articles.
A man awaiting sentencing on Colorado burglary and theft charges has caught a new case after allegedly telling jail staff that he had an assault rifle and directions from God…
Apr 19, 2012 7:54 PM CDT
Before a judge was stabbed and a sheriff’s deputy was shot at a Washington state courthouse last month, superior court judges in Grays Harbor County had sued over what they…
Apr 13, 2012 4:17 PM CDT
Seth Uphoff’s experience as a former defensive back for the Eureka College football team came in handy on Thursday when a convicted defendant was sentenced to two years in a…
Apr 13, 2012 4:00 PM CDT
A distraught litigant who held a gun to his own head in a South Florida courthouse last year before a judge talked him into giving up the weapon has been…
Mar 27, 2012 6:30 PM CDT
A Honolulu judge tackled a man who caused a ruckus in his courtroom on Monday, according to bystanders and a police spokeswoman.
Judge Lono Lee acted after the man entered…
Mar 22, 2012 12:31 PM CDT
A Texas attorney has been released from jail on $1,500 bond after being charged with a misdemeanor on accusations he instigated a ruckus with a Harris County sheriff’s deputy outside…
Mar 21, 2012 6:47 PM CDT
Corrected: A Texas lawyer who was parked in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse yesterday around 11:15 a.m. not only witnessed a fatal shooting but, he says, came close to…
Mar 15, 2012 10:20 AM CDT
One person was killed and at least three others, including a suspect now in custody, were injured today when a gunman opened fire at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Beaumont,…
Mar 14, 2012 6:20 PM CDT
A Washington state judge warned in a 2007 letter that a man arrested last week in an attack on another judge and a sheriff’s deputy “could become a threat.”
Grays…
Mar 13, 2012 6:48 PM CDT
Updated: After an altercation over a set of keys last week at a security checkpoint of a building housing numerous courtrooms, a Chicago judge has been removed from the bench…
Mar 12, 2012 10:56 PM CDT
A suspect was arrested on Saturday following an attack Friday in a Washington state courthouse on a judge and a Grays Harbor County sheriff’s deputy.
Steven Daniel Kravetz, 34, was…
Mar 12, 2012 2:37 PM CDT
Updated: A judge was stabbed and a sheriff’s deputy was shot around noon today in the Grays Harbor County Courthouse in Washington state, about 90 miles from Seattle.
Both were…
Mar 9, 2012 9:57 PM CST
Although handcuffed and wearing leg irons, a Massachusetts criminal defendant reportedly swung his arms and knocked a court officer down on Monday afternoon as he was being led from Plymouth…
Mar 7, 2012 7:12 PM CST
A man who fractured his wife’s nose and broke her jaw during an attack last year in a Florida judge’s chambers was sentenced Friday to a maximum 15-year prison term…
Mar 6, 2012 7:44 PM CST
A Pennsylvania judge has been relocated to a county courthouse for his safety after dismissing the case against a Muslim man accused of attacking an atheist dressed as “Zombie Muhammad”…
Feb 29, 2012 1:10 PM CST
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