In a strategic move apparently intended to avoid wasting resources on an unnecessary trial and, perhaps, encourage cooperation by a defendant already facing substantial time behind bars, the feds have…
A defendant already jailed awaiting trial in a drug case is expected to face an additional identity theft charge after prosecutors say he impersonated his public defender in order to…
The Missouri Supreme Court is to hear arguments Thursday morning concerning a St. Louis judge who drew harsh criticism for reportedly having her clerks handle her call and deal with…
An attorney who filed a libel suit over a character in a fictional television show that he says could be understood to portray him in an unflattering light has gotten…
Corrected: In his year-end report (PDF), Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. acknowledged “a truly extravagant and burgeoning national debt,” but said the federal judiciary is doing its…
Updated: An Illinois lawyer has been criminally charged for allegedly behaving in “a loud or aggressive manner” while making a filing Wednesday at the Lake County Courthouse.
Judge Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has some advice for judges tempted to substitute “a superlong sentence for a merely very long sentence.”
All eyes were on the new military judge in charge of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s capital murder case on Tuesday as the former Army psychiatrist was wheeled into a court-martial…
A Colorado judge has ordered the Huerfano County board of commissioners to fix a nonworking elevator that makes the courthouse more or less inaccessible to the handicapped.
A Maryland judge has been docked five days of pay for summarily holding defendants in his court in contempt, in a consent to discipline approved Friday by the state court…
As an attempted murder trial continues this week in San Diego Superior Court, one of the three defendants will now be required to present his case with the help of…
Justice Elena Kagan highlighted a future important issue for the U.S. Supreme Court and reflected on a past high-profile remark in a speech on Thursday evening.
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