A year after relaxing sentencing for minor crimes, Georgia is seeing the first hints of an inmate-population decline.

A proposed plea agreement for a man facing two aggravated assault charges was rejected Thursday, a rare move by Natrona County District Judge Catherine Wilking.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Judge Joseph Fahey said Friday he will take a few days to make his decision after closing arguments in the trial of two New York brothers accused of stealing a winning $5 million lottery ticket.

SEN. KENT SORENSON: The Iowa Senate Ethics Committee has asked the state Supreme Court chief justice to appoint a special investigator to look into alleged ethics violations by state Sen. Kent Sorenson, R-Milo.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio- Missing valley attorney John Schoenike, has been found. According to a report on Facebook, The message was posted shortly after 10:30 p.m. Sunday, stating: "He has been found.

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 ...

One of the founders of defunct cattle broker Eastern Livestock was sentenced Tuesday to almost six years in federal prison and the former chief financial officer was sentenced to nearly five for their ...

According to the Los Angeles Times (May 2nd, 2013), lawmakers have voted to make possession of controlled substances (heroin, cocaine, crystal meth, and others) a misdemeanor rather than a felony offense. MacGregor & Collins Orange County criminal lawyers believe the decision to be hugely beneficial to decreasing prison overcrowding as well as improving rehabilitation rates amongst controlled ...

Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks the courthouse in Philadelphia Monday, May 13, 2013. Gosnell was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic.

The 3 rd Circuit Court of Appeal has denied a rehearing in a case involving the termination of former Leesville Police Chief Bobby Hickman.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Unless the Legislature intervenes, California will be dotted with a few cities that allow medical marijuana dispensaries but otherwise be ruled by large areas that outlaw the pot businesses.

Florida's statute of limitations can apply not only to court proceedings, but to securities arbitration cases between investors and their brokers, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling, ...

Some 160,000 Social Security numbers and 1 million driver license numbers could be at risk after a data breach at the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts. At least 94 Social Security numbers were already obtained from its website.

A federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Norristown ordinance that penalizes landlords for the alleged behavior of their tenants was filed April 24 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Thursday blocked a campaign finance violation case against Arizona's attorney general, saying it was improperly brought by the county attorney's office.

Numerous homes and business were damaged by the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas last month. Regardless of who's to blame for the explosion, injury attorney Jeff Raizner says insurance companies still have to pay out. (PRWeb May 13, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10728056.htm

IRONWOOD, MI - Three people in Ironwood, Michigan face more than one hundred years in prison each for making methamphetamines.

Maryland House Republicans demand the governor take personal responsibility for allowing corruption to fester inside the Baltimore City Detention Center.

After 18 months of freedom, convicted murderer Barry Beach returned to Montana State Prison on Wednesday to finish serving a 100-year sentence after turning himself in at the Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office.

People arrested are innocent unless proven otherwise in court. Initial charges often change as a case progresses.

A judge on Thursday refused to halt Gov. Jan Brewer's order that denies driver's licenses for young immigrants in Arizona who have gotten work permits and avoided deportation under an Obama administration policy.

Chester Scherer was found dead in a ravine 

AUSTIN -- A bill giving the El Paso County Commissioners Court more control over emergency-services districts sailed through the Texas House on Friday on a 140-1 vote.

The state has extended the life of the Bristol Law Library at Taunton Superior Court, at least temporarily. After announcing last month that May 10 would be the last day the Taunton law library would be open, the trial court system will keep the facility open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays for a yet-to-be-determined period to allow for transition. A Supreme Judicial Court ...

SAN FRANCISCO — California cities and counties can ban pot shops, the state's highest court ruled Monday in a unanimous opinion likely to further diminish California's once-robust medical marijuana industry.

Texas Lawmakers celebrated a success in the efforts to combat wrongful convictions in Texas. Bearing the name of the Texas man exonerated after 24 years in prison, the Michael Morton Act hopes to bring transparency to the criminal justice system. YNN's Sebastian Robertson spoke to the bill's authors.

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.

The Iowa attorney general has launched a formal investigation into the business practices of an Illinois company accused of gouging customers for biohazard cleanup.

An inmate serving a 20-year sentence for multiple drug charges out of Cole County and other Mid-Missouri counties died Friday at the Jefferson City Correctional Center.

A San Jose woman fights for the legal right to bring a wrongful death case over her husband's fatal accident, even though validity of their marriage is in doubt.

Survivors of a crash that killed five family members gave tearful testimony in a Nevada court, while a teen accused of driving drunk kept his head down.

RICHMOND, Va. — Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli omitted more than $13,000 worth of gifts including private jet flights and free vacation lodgings from his required state disclosure forms for a period of four years, Cuccinelli acknowledged Friday.

RACINE — A Racine man wept Monday as he apologized to his children, his fiancée and his father — a retired Beloit police officer — for shooting a man five times in a Mount Pleasant bar 2 1/2 years ago.

IOWA CITY, Iowa - An Iowa agency's refusal to list both spouses in a lesbian marriage as parents on their children's birth certificates is a violation of their constitutional rights and must stop, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.

By CNN Staff (CNN) — George Zimmerman, set to stand trial in the 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin,...

Authorities were forced to evacuate much of Riverview Court on Monday after a woman living on the street received a suspicious package from a convicted rapist and murderer currently serving his sentence in Alaska, police said.

The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public meetings.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane responded to a grand jury judge's criticisms about delays in the case of three former Penn State administrators by asserting the hold-ups have not been caused by her.

Senior Trial Attorney, Michael W. Cardamone, represents injured workers across Pennsylvania. In March 2013, he took the very first Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Certification Exam and successfully passed the exam. This certification process was designed to help injured workers and employers/insurers in Pennsylvania determine who is highly experienced in this increasingly complex area of law ...

A 32-year-old hairstylist tearfully described in court Tuesday how a Torrance podiatrist pulled down her pants and underwear and squeezed her exposed breasts during an exam to obtain shoe inserts to soothe her aching feet.

A bill that eliminates or remakes dozens of state boards and commissions is back from a House Senate conference committee. Both the House and Senate have busy floor calendars today, including a bill limiting the contracts Blue Cross Blue Shield can require health care providers to sign.