Sentencing for ex-Box Elder County deputy postponed by Marissa Lang The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 8, 2013 11:55AM MDT Brigham City » Sentencing has been postponed for a former Box Elder County sheriff’s deputy accused of sexually assaulting women during a series of traffic stops. Scott Womack, 37, was scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in 1st District Court, where he has pleaded no ...

Rachel Swan Special to The S.F. Examiner Like every court system in California, San Mateo County felt the pinch of budget cuts this year, and it’s enough to rattle administrators. In January, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cuts that would leave the court with a crippling $4.5 million deficit. Barring a May revision of that proposal, the court would have to adjust by eliminating five commissioners ...

  The man who confessed to murdering six people in two different north Alabama counties is back at the Madison County Courthouse for a mini trial Monday.  

Edward T. Buckingham, a former CNMI attorney general who is now a fugitive from justice, was served at his residence in Colorado with a summons and complaint filed by a former government lawyer for the Commonwealth who claims he was let go due to age discrimination.

One of the inmates charged in the murder of 25-year-old Sonny Limpy  at the GEO prison in Lawton pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

A sharply divided Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from a Louisiana man who claimed that most of a seven-year delay between his arrest and murder trial was the result of a breakdown in the state's system for paying...

Two Tennessee appellate court judges have notified Governor Bill Haslam they will not run for another term on the bench in the August 2014 retention election.

A committee has advanced three controversial gun-related bills, sending them to the full Senate. One of the measures would seek to exempt Texas from new federal laws regulating firearms or ammunition, a bill that would face court challenges if it became law and was used.

The Sandoval Detention Center may take on inmates from Bernalillo County.

A revised plan to redraw the boundaries of Pennsylvania’s legislative districts won the unanimous approval Wednesday of the state Supreme Court. The justices ruled that the new map is constitutional and can take effect for Pennsylvania’s 203 House districts and 50 Senate districts beginning in the 2014 elections.

A Jackson County man who pleaded guilty to child molesting has received a 10-year prison term in Jackson Circuit Court in Brownstown.

Lafourche Parish spent more than $170,000 on a hearing in which a judge decided a Thibodaux man was not mentally competent to stand trial in the decapitation murder of his son, the parish district attorney said.

Grisly new details emerged on the second day of a mass murder trial as officers who responded to the scene and a forensic pathologist described what they saw in their roles investigating the case.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Senate and House budget negotiators have tentatively agreed to close two privately run state prisons. The Texas Board of Criminal Justice would decide which two prisons to shutter under the Friday's agreement, the Austin American-Statesman reports . The Senate, in its state budget plan, had targeted a 2,100-bed transfer facility in Mineral Wells and a 2,200-bed state ...

Prosecutors appear to be nearing the end of their case in the trial of a man charged with beating five members of a central Illinois family to death in 2009.

By Nathan Tankus, a student and research assistant at the University of Ottawa. You can follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus Since the Reagan/Thatcher era, it is common to view politics over infrastructure as simply a battle between right wing forces attempting to privatize infrastructure and others trying to defend it (I covered the latest attack by President Obama on the TVA ). However, this ...

KINGMAN – As thunder claps boomed Thursday morning above the courthouse, Kingman County jurors ...

Capital punishment opponents say the state's lengthy death penalty procedure is costing taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees and other expenses without significantly improving public safety. Read more

       

Dereon Tayronne Kelley, 22, of Bryan, has been ordered to prison following his convictions on all counts for communicating a bomb threat to an academic institution, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.

A federal judge in Kansas City, Kansas, this week ordered The Dow Chemical Company to pay more than $1.2 billion to plaintiffs in an antitrust case involving price-fixing of chemic

TRENTON — A New Jersey appeals court says the state government cannot seize towns' affordable housing money until broader legal issues are determined.

LAGRANGE — The Rural Lorain County Water Authority board’s use of secret ballots in a vote Wednesday to remove Mark McConnell violated Ohio’s Sunshine Laws, according to an open meetings expert and a 2011 opinion issued by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. “You can’t vote on anything in secret,” Tim Smith, an attorney and professor emeritus ... Read More

YREKA, Calif. — People from Jodi Arias’ home town react to the verdict from her murder trial, which captivated the nation for months. Arias listed her hometown as Yreka, California. She was living in the town when she met Alexander in 2007 in Las Vegas. The two dated long distance for several months. Then, as … Continue reading »

Authorities say an Arizona prison inmate is dead from an apparent suicide, and a Guatemalan held at a detention center in Pinal County also has died.

A Wisconsin appeals court recommended the state Supreme Court take up a case brought by municipal employees to challenge Act 10, the controversial 2011 legislation that all but eliminated stat…

A Tennessee man is back in jail on child pornography charges after being out on bond for child abuse.

The defense for a Polk County teen charged in the death of his sister wants to move an upcoming trial to Greene County.

The North Dakota Supreme Court is considering ordering a third district judge to Williston.

Judges shrug at misguided belief that Pennsylvania has no criminal code. Unbeknownst to most law-abiding citizens, Pennsylvania has had no criminal laws for the past 45 years.        

ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

Today Attorney General Buddy Caldwell issued the following statement with regard to the Louisiana Supreme Court's rulings yesterday in State of Louisiana v. Timothy Bazile and State of Louisiana v. Joe Bob Clark.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series about the lawsuit surrounding the Southern Nevada Water Authority’s groundwater project. Part one will feature attorney Simeon Herskovits, who i

Fannin County Criminal District Attorney Richard Glaser released a list of people who entered plea agreements with his office during the April dockets before Judge Charles Butler of the Fannin County Court-at-Law.

Three-judge panel has 90 days to issue an opinion on her vehicular homicide convictions.

An American man killed his uncle, aunt and cousins in the Czech Republic and then flew to the United States, where he was arrested at an airport, authorities said today.

Ernest Harper has been out of prison for years and is leading a model life. But the daughter of a woman killed in Louisiana says the only place he belongs is behind bars.

One of three men accused of flooding a Dunn County jail cell block is going to prison for 1.5 years.

New Johnson allegation: Prosecutor tried to protect Swallow by Tom Harvey The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 10:35PM MDT Indicted St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson unleashed another barrage of allegations this week against U.S. officials, including a new salvo accusing a federal prosecutor of trying to shield Utah Attorney General John Swallow from possible criminal charges even as ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A Dakota County District judge who pleaded guilty to drunken driving has asked Gov. Mark Dayton to grant him medical disability retirement.

Mike Goodson's legal issues didn't start with last Friday's arrest in New Jersey on drug and weapons charges, which could result in jail time. In his previous NFL stops, with the Panthers and Raiders, his personal life spilled into the courts.