Convicted of drug charges in Nicaragua, Washington native Jason Puracal was held in a notoriously dangerous prison for two years before and appeals court acquitted him.

A California judge is declining to refer ex-Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks to a mental health court program.

Va. attorney general no longer says his office is exempt from state public records laws.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A yeshiva teacher in New Jersey who also worked as a camp counselor is on trial on charges he sexually abused a boy.

LYNDHURST, N.J., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Scarinci Hollenbeck welcomes a new attorney and partner, Fernando M. Pinguelo, to the firm. Pinguelo will take on the prestigious and demanding roles as ...

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.

Officials said a former IRS employee pleaded guilty in federal court to conflict of interest because she owned a private tax business while working as an IRS manager.

By Eric M. Johnson TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant on Thursday was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree in Iraq that was one of the worst instances of violence by an American soldier against other American troops. In a deal that spared him the death penalty, Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty last month to killing ...

A 49-year-old woman was sent to prison Monday after she pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a hit-and-run that killed a 15-year-old boy.

SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld the right of local governments to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, leaving intact a growing movement to outlaw the pot businesses despite a 1996 state law that permits the use of weed for medical purposes.

Michael Sherman was arrested for robbing his neighbor after investigators followed a trail of coins from the crime scene to his house.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will consider the constitutional limits on prayers during legislative sessions, accepting an appeal from a New York town that starts most council meetings with a Christian invocation.

When I first began practicing law in the mid-1990s, I was one of many young attorneys, aged 28-35, who had embarked upon a career in workers’ compensation law. In those days, the Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims was a very busy place. The St. Petersburg District Office had two judges and two mediators. On any given day, there would be 10-15 mediations taking place and several hearings ...

       

The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby’s throat four times with a knife, court documents show.

For 90 minutes Tuesday night, seven men and one woman who hope to be Washington County’s next judges threw themselves on the mercy of the court of public opinion.

A Tennessee woman is headed to prison in Texas for killing her husband more than 25 years ago.

A Key West High School senior and standout athlete accused of having sex with another male student five years younger was arrested Tuesday. read more

One of two Beaver Falls men who pleaded guilty to getting more than five kilograms of cocaine from Texas will spend nearly 11 years in jail.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Bureau of Prisons lacks clear standards on when to grant compassionate release to inmates with terminal illnesses and limited life expectancies, the Justice Department's inspector general said Wednesday.

The owner of a North Carolina investment firm has been charged with securities fraud for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that solicited victims to invest millions in the foreign currency market ("FOREX"), according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Charlotte.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama judge has been suspended with pay after the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission filed a complaint against her. The complaint, filed last week against Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Dorothea Batiste, alleges that she entered unlawful contempt orders for the arrest of parties or witnesses in divorce cases. An attorney for Batiste denied the allegations in ...

View full sizeChristopher Adams of Moss Point was sentenced to 18 years in prison on two counts of sexual battery. (Jackson County Sheriff's Office) PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Jackson County Circuit Judge Dale Harkey sentenced Christopher Adams of Moss Point today...

By Mark Waite The Nevada Attorney General’s Office Wednesday confirmed it received the request from Nye County last week to prosecute Sheriff Tony DeMeo. Nye County commissioners last October voted 4-0 to refer the sheriff to the attorney general’s office for prosecution for expending money in excess of his annual budget in violation of state[...]

The state Supreme Court is set to issue a decision today on whether the city of Riverside is legally allowed to ban medical marijuana dispensaries through zoning laws.

The Center for Restorative Justice Works and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are again bringing hundreds of children to visit their mothers in prison on Mother's Day during ...

Former Harris County, Texas, prosecutor Linda Geffin had no idea what was at stake the day the defense team she was up against called psychologist Walter Quijano to the stand to testify in the murder trial of Duane Buck.

Lewis was known as a 'henchman' for the Craig Petties Drug Trafficking Organization

A man accused of murdering an Aurora, Ind. woman could get life in prison without parole.

Fort Bend Republican Women are honored to announce Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott will be speaking at the May 10, Patriot Luncheon, being held at Sweetwater Country Club, 4400 Palm Royal, Sugar L

SILVER CITY — Allen Hurley was sentenced to the maximum under the law — 17 and a half years — for the murder of Rachel Torrisi Sierra in December 2008 by Judge J.C. Robinson on Tuesday in Silver City District Court.

Investigators trying to unravel the murder of Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements seem to find many of the threads leading back to the 211 Crew. That's a white supremacist gang in Colorado's prisons. While a direct connection is still elusive, the evidence so far raises questions about the group, and the extent of their reach.

A former northern Illinois comptroller sentenced this year for stealing nearly $54 million from her community has been transferred to a federal jail in downtown Chicago.

Lawton,Okla_A Lawton man who pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to manufacture meth has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Joseph Phelps was arrested last month after police raided his house

Marzulla Law, LLC announced that on April 24, 2013, the United States agreed to settle a breach of contract lawsuit, International Industrial Park, Inc. v. United States, Case No. 09-691C, stipulating to the entry of final judgment and to payment of attorneys’ fees and costs in the amount of $756,900. This stipulation brought the final damages award to nearly $2.5 million for the plaintiffs ...

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.

Teammate Tony Boselli: He threw it all away on drugs What happened to the sweet, smiling Jimmy Smith we all once knew?

A judge assessed a Pittsburg woman more than 25 years in prison Monday for her role in a methamphetamine-related murder two years ago.

Opening statements are scheduled to begin Monday morning in the murder trial of Michael Louding, also known as "Marlo Mike."

The chief justice promised to labor on, saying she “was heartened by [Assembly] Speaker [John] Perez’s comments last week about the need to begin reinvesting in the courts and hopeful that the Legislature and the Governor can work toward reversing some of the damaging impacts on access to justice before a budget bill is passed and signed.”

A Belington woman who was arrested as part of a meth lab bust last year was sentenced Tuesday in Randolph County Circuit Court. Tonya Warner, 29, was arrested Aug.