Good news for Manhattan residents who enjoy drinking alcohol in public or riding between subway cars: As of next Monday, you will no longer be arrested, thrown in a holding…
Even where states require interpreters, actually obtaining them can be problematic. Many states simply don’t have people on staff who can interpret in less-common languages. Read this ABA Journal feature recently honored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors for its government coverage.
Mar 1, 2016 4:20 AM CST
Social worker Vanessa Finley. Photo by Len Irish.
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Competency cases, for criminal defendants who are deemed too mentally ill to stand trial, have increased by 50 percent in the Los Angeles Superior Court. The increase reflects a time…
Reversing an intermediate appeals court that had granted a defendant a new trial because his lawyer was removed against his wishes, New York’s top court on Thursday unanimously ruled that…
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has called a temporary halt to a trial, in the latest dispute over the racial composition of a jury in a criminal case before Jefferson…
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday ruled that an accused killer can’t be retried because the trial judge mistakenly declared a mistrial after the defense gave its opening statement.
In an error now admitted by the prosecution, a Washington, D.C., police forensics expert incorrectly testified that a match between bullet slugs found in a murder victim’s vehicle and a…
The Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously reversed the 2010 murder conviction of a defendant who asked to represent himself but then saw his request “virtually ignored” both by the trial…
Updated: A federal judge rebuked the City of Chicago and its lawyers for failing to turn over evidence in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man…
Grand jurors on Monday failed to indict jailers in the jailhouse death of Sandra Bland, a Chicago-area woman found hanged in her Texas cell after she was pulled over for…
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Social worker Vanessa Finley. Photo by Len Irish.
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