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A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring contraband to the inmates at the Maury County jail in exchange for cash.

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner was booked into the Pulaski County jail Saturday afternoon on federal charges, records show.

Lawyers and supporters for the California Innocence Project are walking 660 miles from San Diego to Sacramento, California, to personally deliver clemency petitions to Governor Jerry Brown for the release of the California 12, a dozen inmates who have strong cases of factual innocence. Follow their progress on TakePart.

A federal judge has rejected a $65,000 settlement offer in a case involving the alleged rape of a young girl at the former Mount Hope High School, while at the same time throwing out negligence claims against one of the teachers originally listed in the suit.

A Michigan judge who held himself in contempt when his cellphone went off in the courtroom recently said judges are not above the rules. This week, an Oregon judge showed that jurors aren't above the rules, either. During a trial in Salem, the judge saw a juror's pocket glowing. The juror, who had been texting, was held in contempt and spent the day in jail instead of the courtroom.

COLUMBUS -- A bill to consolidate the Tiffin and Fostoria municipal courts was introduced to state lawmakers this week.

Wednesday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard arguments that will determine whether Durham author Michael Peterson should get a new trial. He was convicted of killing his wife Kathleen in 2003.

Lawyers for the Colorado theater shooting suspect told a judge Monday he wants to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity, but the judge won't rule on whether to allow that yet.

Private prison interests have given nearly $200,000 in campaign dollars and gifts to 79 of the 149 members of the state Legislature since 2004, a Tulsa World analysis shows.

By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former New York state senator from Queens secretly recorded seven lawmakers as part of a political corruption probe, according to a court document unsealed Wednesday. Shirley Huntley, 74, a Democrat who pleaded guilty in January to embezzling $87,700 from a nonprofit organization, recorded and photographed the officials on multiple occasions in the summer of ...

A federal judge is hearing final motions from both sides before starting the trial of a Virginia woman charged with embezzling more than $1 million in horse racing funds from a West Virginia casino and racetrack.

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A reputed southern New Jersey street gang leader who admitted leading a narcotics network in Camden has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Before the new Walworth County Child Advocacy Center opened earlier this month, Deputy District Attorney Joshua Grube said young victims were forced to tell their stories over and over again.

Less is more for Monroe County under the legislative redistricting plan that won final approval Wednesday from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Paw Paw, Mich. — The state appeals court has stepped in and stopped a hearing next week that could have led to the release of a convicted killer in southwestern Michigan.

A unanimous New York appellate panel has suspended for nine months two Bronx attorneys who admitted they encouraged a client to lie about a personal injury case. The attorneys admitted that their conduct was "dishonest and shameful," and attributed it in part to their "youth and inexperience."

Magnolia motorcycle driver may face prison in death of passenger Houston Chronicle Copyright 2013 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:51 am, Monday, May 13, 2013 A Montgomery County grand jury has indicted a Magnolia man in connection with a fatal motorcycle crash in February that killed his passenger ...

FRISCO — Confessed murderer Jesus Reyna has been sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a man near Georgetown. Reyna could have faced life in prison.

An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, Idaho, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a felony, and misdemeanor animal cruelty stemming from the break-in and beating death of the monkey at Zoo Boise in November.The primate was one of the ...

For the first time in 34 years, a majority of Nebraska lawmakers seems to support abolishing the state's death penalty.

A South Florida doctor is facing up to two decades in prison after pleading guilty to drug and tax charges arising from an illegal pill mill operation.

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - A woman once facing a possible life prison sentence for allegedly pimping a 17-year-old girl in Grand Forks tearfully thanked the judge and hugged the prosecutor after receiving no jail time in a case even the prosecutor called unusual.

Today on Rappler. The Commission on Elections opens the source code of ballot-counting machines for local review. The Bankers Association of the Philippines asks the Supreme Court to lift the Comelec’s money ban. Comelec spokesman James Jimenez says vote buying increased because of the automated election system.

Greenberg Traurig Obtains a Supreme Court of Georgia Decision on an Issue of First Impression (PRWeb May 08, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10715738.htm

A man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. read more

The sentencing of former East Washington police chief Donald Solomon, who allegedly called himself “the best cop money can buy,” is scheduled next month in U.S. District Court, Pittsburgh, and U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton said he intends to participate personally.

The man convicted of killing a Georgia National Guardsman a year ago has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The new federal prison off of East Milan Road in Berlin continues to accept inmates, as prison officials slowly move towards full activation of the multi-million dollar facility.

A FBI raid of a New Mexico Sheriff’s Office is just the latest controversy surrounding Sheriff Tommy Rodella, who’s had his name come up in one investigation after another from the time he was a state police officer, a magistrate judge and now as the Sheriff of Rio Arriba County.

WORCESTER -- In December, Asim Amran, of Fitchburg, was sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of poisoning his wife from an arranged marriage, stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping it by the side of a highway in Oxford four

Justice William Waller Jr. orders the Attorney General's Office to respond to Manning's issues by 4 p.m. today.

Veteran judge Paula M. Carey has been appointed chief justice of the Massachusetts trial courts, the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court announced Monday morning. Carey has been chief justice of the Probate and Family Court since 2007 and was originally appointed as a Probate and Family Court judge in 2001.        

Starting Wednesday, April 18, court clerks and sheriff’s offices across Georgia began receiving concerned calls relating to missed jury duty. The number warning the listener of serious punishment turned out to be a hoax.  

The release of a prison inmate into Del Norte County got off to a rocky start and ended with the convict’s return to custody, authorities said. Kevin M. Tennin, 49, of Minnesota was released from Pelican Bay State Prison on Monday after serving time for a sex-related crime and arson committed while in prison, according to the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office. Tennin was under supervised parole ...

Oral arguments are scheduled before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether a North Texas water district can have access to water supplies in southeastern Oklahoma.

SOLANO COUNTY- The FBI is asking for the public’s help in identifying six alleged victims of convicted killer Curtis Dean Anderson, who died in prison while serving a 301-year sentence. Agents this week, released details of the victims Anderson confessed …

While lawmakers have pushed for a greater distributing of ex-prisoners in communities, corrections officials see benefits in clustering them in concentrated areas.

The soldiers vs. KBR case in Oregon has almost crossed into its fifth year, but it has taken nearly its final turn. KBR will seek a modification, then will appeal

The judge has promised a decision by the end of June. The Mississippi Supreme Court will have the final say on whether the death sentence will stand.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed President Barack Obama of the latest sexual assault allegations against a soldier who was assigned to prevent such crimes — the second soldier involved in similar accusations — and the president made clear he wants that behavior stopped, officials said Wednesday.