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…
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…
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”…
Few lawyers are overjoyed about the security line at the St. Louis County courthouse, which operates more like an airport security checkpoint than most.
Sheriff’s deputies in DeKalb County, Ga., arrested seven people on Thursday after gang members and relatives of a murder victim brawled outside the courtroom.
A group called Move to Amend is calling for a one-day “Occupy the Courts” demonstration to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision finding that corporations have a First Amendment right…
A former boxer on trial for criminal sexual conduct is accused of shooting and injuring a prosecutor and two others in a courthouse in Northern Minnesota late Thursday afternoon.
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