Man pleaded guilty in February.

The Erie region will lose a seat in the state House of Representatives after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court today upheld new boundaries for the chamber that will take effect with the 2014 elections.

By GERT K. HIRSCHBERG (The writer is a retired trial lawyer, an American Board of Trial Advocates member since 1978 and a former professor of torts at five California law schools. He counts 4,000 of his former students among California’s lawyers and judges.

Fort Lauderdale Car Accident Lawyer and personal injury attorney website launched by the Berman Law Group. As part of their committed to the community approach, the Law Offices of Berman and Berman now serve the Borward County South Florida Area.Fort Lauderdale, Florida (PRWEB) April 25, 2013 The Berman Law Group can now be accessed with ease on their new website serving the area of Fort ...

Washington: An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into the United States, the Department of Justice said.

A fugitive arrested last week in Macon by marshals after failing to show up for sentencing in a deadly Colquitt County armed robbery learned his fate, as the victim's heart-broken family looked on.

The new ad campaign by the Orange County attorneys Zhou & Chini is designed to cater to struggling homeowners in Orange County CA. The bankruptcy attorneys are offering a free consultation to discuss individual’s financial options.Orange County, California (PRWEB) April 26, 2013 Orange County’s top bankruptcy attorneys Zhou & Chini are launching a “stop foreclosure in Orange County CA” campaign ...

OTTUMWA -- An Ottumwa man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison following a drug bust at his home last summer. Ottumwa Police Department and Southeast Iowa Inter-Agency Drug Task Force officers executed a search warrant at 1214 N. Adams St. on

MANCHESTER – A judge upheld Steven Spader’s sentence of life without parole Friday for the 2009 first-degree murder of Kimberly Cates in Mont Vernon. Spader, 21, formerly of Brookline, is incarcerated at the New Hampshire State Prison’s Special Housing Unit in Concord. “The circumstances of these  horrific crimes and the extent of the defendant’s planning and participating warrant the ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Out of the grip of the federal prison system, environmental and climate activist Tim DeChristopher plans to make Harvard Divinity School his next stop. DeChristopher, 31, has achieved folk status and inspired a documentary airing Monday - all for grabbing a bidder's paddle and running up prices at a federal oil-and-gas lease auction, trying to safeguard wild lands near Utah's ...

In March 2004 Rosalie Riegle, a professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan from 1969 to 2003, was one of eight Catholic Worker peace advocates arrested for trespassing at Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base, the command center for the military’s entire nuclear arsenal.

MARYSVILLE, Ohio — A Union County man who admitted to exchanging nude photos with a teenage girl and later meeting her for sex has been sentenced to 18 years and 11 months in prison.

A Palm Beach County Circuit judge has ordered a new trial for polo mogul John Goodman, who was convicted of DUI manslaughter last year.

A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the state of Minnesota has been wrongfully charged for more than 37,000 abortions for indigent women.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.

A Dallas County, Texas, physician has been arrested and charged with health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. read more

A former North Carolina probation officer was sentenced to nearly a year and a half in prison for extortion and drug trafficking offenses involving persons under his supervision.

A Florida administrative law judge has struck down a decision by the state’s parimutuel regulator to award a license to a north Florida track that offers betting on Quarter Horse barrel racing.

Retirees sued in 2010 after County Executive Robert Ficano and county commissioners passed an ordinance taking money from the 13th check fund to count toward the county's annual contribution to the retirement system. A three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled today that the county violated state law governing collective bargaining with the move.

Paulino Perez-Mondragon is serving 25 years in prison for robbery and assault while participating in a felony. The Iowa Court of Appeals previously rejected his claim the sentence was unconstitutional.

Monday afternoon the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office mistakenly said that an arrest warrant has been issued for Councilman Timothy Vessel. The release said the warrant was issued against Vessel for failing to appear in court to answer charges of stealing electricity. In fact, the warrant was for Vessel's son, also named Timothy.

KNOXVILLE — The defense team for torture-slaying suspect George Thomas continued today to hammer the lack of proof tying their client to the crimes.

A man convicted of sodomy will spend the next 20 years in prison.

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - A judge has appointed attorneys for an inmate suspected of killing a corrections officer at a federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania.

New proposed law addresses hiring checks, other concerns, LeClairRyan attorney advises (PRWeb May 13, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10723838.htm

Convicted murderer Richard Cobb stared into the face of the Texas prison warden who attended his execution Thursday night and let him know how much he enjoyed the lethal drugs with which he had been injected.        

A Tulsa woman convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her husband is scheduled for sentencing Tuesday in district court.

The trial of two brothers accused of trying to claim $5 million in winnings off a stolen lottery ticket started Monday at 1:00 pm in Onondaga County Court, in Syracuse, New York.

A man charged with sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl between 2007 and 2008 accepted a plea offer in a Floyd County court Monday. Robert D. Kron, 48, of 1604 King St., was charged in August 2008 with two counts of A felony child molesting.

A divided Colorado Court of Appeals panel on Thursday upheld the firing of a man for off-the-job medical-marijuana use, concluding that, because marijuana is illegal under federal law, employees

Lawyers for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have to delay full representation because of sweeping federal budget cuts.

The Florida injury attorneys at Bernstein & Maryanoff have been representing clients for 30 years in legal matters that have arisen from car accidents, trucking accidents, DUI accidents, other forms of ...

Channel 2 Action News has discovered a Georgia prison inmate serving six life sentences for planning violent robberies from inside prison could be back at it again. Channel 2's Kerry Kavanaugh has worked this story for weeks since receiving a tip about an armed robbery in Columbia, S.C. Investigators said there is evidence the same inmate, Deuntria Lyons, had access to cellphones again, and used ...

Law Blog rounds up the morning's news.

Lawyers for Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may have to delay full representation because of sweeping federal budget cuts.

A judge's ruling striking down the Midtown and Downtown tunnel tolls has cast a cloud over other transportation projects, exposed the state to unknown damages and left financial markets "at best, confused," according to a court memo by lawyers for the Virginia Department of Transportation.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the state, the Department of Corrections and the New Jersey Parole Board in the death of a Garfield woman allegedly strangled by a parolee who escaped the custody of a halfway house.

Convicted woman begs for mercy, claims she paid taxes on the stolen money The ringleader of a brazen South Florida identity theft ring that sought $11.7 million worth of fraudulent income tax refunds was sentenced Thursday to more than 26 years in federal prison.        

       

On Thursday, a grand jury decided the 64-year-old Little Falls homeowner who admitted to shooting and killing two teenaged cousins on Thanksgiving Day will face first-degree premeditated murder charges at trial.