Minutes after they are arrested, alert defendants in Erie County, N.Y., will learn more about their options on a high-definition television screen displaying ads for lawyers and bail bondsman.
A man who was mauled while feeding the bears for his employer may collect workers compensation even though he smoked pot beforehand, according to the Montana Supreme Court.
Corrected: Apparently irritated at a deputy public defender representing him on a marijuana citation that could, at most, have resulted in a $100 fine, a California man punched her in…
A “surprisingly upbeat” former National Football League star who has struggled with bipolar disorder and substance abuse was sentenced today in Miami-Dade Circuit Court to five years in prison for…
A former Ohio judge was convicted by a federal jury today of 10 counts of lying to agents of the FBI about conversations she had with people concerning their pending…
A woman who became severely disabled giving birth to triplets in 2006 has the right to see her children, a California judge ruled today in a temporary order pending a…
One of eight mortgage foreclosure law firms reportedly being investigated by the Florida attorney general over claims of dubious paperwork has agreed to pay $2 million and change its business…
Charged with murder in the 2009 killing of her 36-year-old boyfriend, attorney Michael Porcella, a California woman has been convicted of voluntary manslaughter with an enhancement, because she used a…
A man with a record of 15 felony convictions somehow managed to get access both to an unidentified St. Louis law firm’s trust account and the “credit and financial accounts”…
Actor Martin Sheen testified via a video hookup from California today in a New Jersey trial in which actor James Marshall is seeking $11 million from the maker of the…
An Illinois lawyer has been criminally charged for allegedly allowing a client being questioned at a Chicago police station in a high-profile murder case to use her personal cellphone to…
When an FBI agent found an abandoned tool bag containing a metal cash box outside the McNamara Federal building in Detroit on Feb. 26, he turned it over to a…
After several years of preliminary hearings and negotiations, a Florida paralegal who is accused, along with her boss, of using a $72,000 client trust account as an ATM to fund…
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