Journalists should routinely be allowed to use Twitter and send texts and e-mail from smart phones from courtrooms while covering legal news, the most senior judge in the United Kingdom…
The Colorado author of The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct has been arrested in a Florida obscenity case after allegedly selling a signed copy…
In a British court hearing that was live-tweeted, with the permission of the judge, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website was granted bail today.
Texas’ highest criminal court has temporarily halted a hearing on the constitutionality of capital punishment overseen by a Houston judge who issued then rescinded a decision striking down the state’s…
A suspect has been indicted in the slaying of an undercover police informant who was murdered after an FBI report identifying him by name was reportedly circulated throughout his Baltimore…
After a federal judge’s acceptance of a plea deal last month, after he was accused of carrying loaded firearms in his vehicle and buying drugs for a stripper with whom…
A May U.S. Supreme Court ruling that buoyed juvenile justice advocates isn’t having much of an impact in Florida, even though at least 116 inmates qualify for sentencing relief under…
The ACLU took aim at Michigan’s sentencing laws today for cruel and unusual punishment in a suit filed on behalf of nine inmates sentenced to life in prison without the…
Three Ohio jurors were ordered to pay nearly $6,000 after their lunch-break investigations resulted in the mistrial of a murder case. Richland County Common Pleas Judge James DeWeese ordered the…
Admonishing controversial defense attorney Geoffrey Fieger in a murder trial this morning, a Michigan judge told him she’ll declare a mistrial and send him to jail if…
When the feds search an individual’s e-mail under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, they don’t have to notify the account-holder, a federal judge has ruled.
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