A judge suspended the 180-day jail sentence of California defense attorney David Taylor Kaye, instead ordering probation and ordering him to undergo sex offender counseling for secretly filming women at…
Corrected: A Michigan judge should be disqualified from hearing drunken driving cases because of her tough DUI sentences, according to a motion filed this week.
A former Pennsylvania judge accused of taking $1 million in bribes for sending juveniles to private detention centers has been sentenced to 28 years in prison.
Due to a state budget crisis, officials in California have been reluctant to pay the price of prosecuting incarcerated offenders who violate prison rules against having a cellphone.
Arguably looking for trouble, the father of a New York teen who got an 11-year prison term last month for shooting a classmate in the arm recently rang the doorbell…
A Texas jury today deliberated only half an hour today before sentencing the leader of a splinter religious group today to a life prison term for the sexual assault of…
A Detroit judge is set to decide next week whether an escrow account he created to capture proceeds from the sale of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s new autobiography is legal.
Corrected: A former prosecutor in Bexar County, Texas, pleaded no contest to a felony drug charge yesterday as his trial for purchasing crack cocaine was about to begin.
Initially charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his mother, an 11-year-old Illinois boy pleaded guilty yesterday to second-degree murder.
The unidentified youth expressed no remorse in yesterday’s…
An Arkansas lawyer and businessman admitted in federal court yesterday that he orchestrated a $47 million Ponzi scheme involving seven banks by creating fake rural improvement bonds.
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