Castigated for having sentenced a former teacher convicted of raping a 14-year-old who subsequently committed suicide to only 30 days in jail, a Montana judge now says he made have…
Peter Smith: “If victims don’t call, then the police don’t get contacted until one of these incidents reaches a boiling point.” Photo by Gene Smirnov.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Bales, who admitted to shooting 16 civilians, including nine children, in a 2012 bloody rampage of two villages in Afghanistan, was sentenced to life in prison…
Edgar Paltzer, a lawyer with U.S. and Swiss citizenship who is licensed to practice in New York, has pleaded guilty to helping American clients hide assets from the IRS.
A Texas appeals court overturned the the adult certification of a juvenile in a murder case this week, the first certification overturned in the state in nearly 25 years.
In the battle against dog poop, government officials, as well as managers of condominium associations and rental units, have resorted to some innovative methods, including the use of DNA testing…
In his 34 years on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Boyce Martin was sometimes accused along with his liberal colleagues of being prone to issue stays…
A federal appeals court has ruled that the federal government doesn’t need a warrant to obtain historical data showing the general location of cellphone calls.
A California judge has ruled he has jurisdiction to try a lawyer accused of killing his ex-wife and throwing her overboard while on a cruise off the coast of Italy.
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