Justice Antonin Scalia appeared unimpressed with the statistics on Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court debated the constitutionality of collecting DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes.
In an unusual statement issued Monday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor decried a prosecutor’s “racially charged remark” about money, minorities and drug deals, though she agreed with a decision to deny cert…
Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, have been charged with first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm, in the shooting death of Chicago…
H. Warren Hogeland pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to mail fraud and conspiracy. He’s one of nine judges—eight cases are still pending—charged with dismissing or reducing citations for friends,…
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin found Monday that a group of black and Latino residents in the Bronx could bring claims on behalf of a class of potentially thousands of…
A U.S. Magistrate Judge ordered David Matusiewicz detained today until a hearing is held on charges that he violated the terms of his federal probation.
The criminal contempt sentence for an 18-year-old Miami woman who flipped off a judge during a hearing for drug possession was vacated Friday after she apologized to the judge, admitted…
Following through on a campaign promise, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has appointed a former federal prosecutor to investigate how her own office, then under herself and now-Gov. Tom Corbett,…
The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a trial judge’s decision to dismiss kidnapping, sexual assault and murder charges in the death of a 12-year-old girl because prosecutors violated the accused’s right…
Updated: The Cook County Jail in Chicago mistakenly released an Indiana man who was in court last week to appear on local armed violence and drug charges.
Indictments from nearly 900 cases in the Nashville area are under review after officials discovered a man who served as grand jury chair in 2011 is a convicted felon.
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