The First Amendment doesn’t bar the prosecution of a former Army sergeant who sang and rapped a threat to a judge on YouTube, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A couple who were active in the sovereign citizens movement have pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill a federal judge who presided in a tax case that cost them their…
A Detroit judge who cleared her courtroom last week because a bailiff saw bedbugs crawling on a man is talking about the incident on her Facebook page.
After previously questioning the impartiality of a panel overseeing a controversial legal ethics case against a Canadian judge, a lawyer serving in something of a prosecutorial role has stepped down…
A New York judge who has been threatened several times during his nearly 20 years on the bench decided he wanted to get a concealed-carry permit and take a loaded…
A New York judge who abruptly resigned without explanation in April has been retroactively removed from office by state disciplinary officials for allegedly sexually molesting his deaf 5-year-old niece 40…
Updated: New model jury instructions (PDF) developed by a federal Judicial Conference committee expand a previous ban on social media use and explain in simple…
Updated: A New York judge is accused in a recusal filing of putting “wanted” posters featuring a Cozen O’Connor partner’s face in his courtroom and drawing a bull’s-eye on a…
A New York judge who says a police officer struck him after apparently mistaking him for a heckler is blasting Queens District Attorney Richard Brown for refusing to prosecute.
It seemed like a routine pretrial hearing in the case of Cornell Smith until the handcuffed murder defendant suddenly, and for no apparent reason, attacked his own counsel in a…
There was little or no nostalgia for Broward County’s soon-to-be-former 52-year-old courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as work began on a new $213 million building that will be constructed on…
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