Mark C. Jackson testified Thursday in his two-day drug trafficking trial in 12th Judicial District Court.

Hennepin County Court Judge Toddrick Barnette found Eddie Matthew Mosley, 35, of Saint Louis, guilty on 9 felony counts Thursday. Mosley will spend the rest of his life in prison.

By Alexia Shurmur LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - An attorney who O.J. Simpson claims botched his Nevada robbery trial five years ago told a court on Friday that he poured his "blood, sweat and soul" into defending the former football hero, who he said had been badly tainted by his sensational 1990s murder case. Yale Galanter, who took the witness stand in a week-long hearing into Simpson's bid for a new ...

New York auto accident lawyer David Perecman at The Perecman Firm discusses the dangers of solid waste and recycling collection following an accident in which a car hit a sanitation worker who was directing traffic around his truck. (PRWeb May 08, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/NYpersonalinjurylawyer/prweb10707434.htm

Jurors are scheduled to begin deliberations today in a 2004 mass murder case in which the alleged triggerman is facing five murder counts.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 15 (UPI) -- Four men were sentenced in a U.S. court in Minnesota to prison for terrorism offenses related to support for Somali organization al-Shabaab.

The Georgia Supreme Court recently refused to consider a case involving an alleged botched 911 call that supposedly contributed to an Oglethorpe County man's death five years ago.

BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) - Prosecutors say a man who shot cellphone video of his speedometer showing 140 mph just before crashing on an upstate New York highway has been sentenced to from 1½ to 3 years in prison for injuring his passengers.

May 16, 2013 7:38 AM LAS VEGAS (REUTERS) - OJ Simpson, the former football star famously acquitted of murder in 1995, offered sometimes emotional testimony in a packed Las Vegas courtroom on Wednesday as he sought a new trial in a robbery case that sent him to prison nearly five years ago.        

(AP Photo/Ethan Miller, Pool). O. WHY IS O.J. SIMPSON IN COURT? The 65-year-old former football star and actor is serving nine to 33 years in a Nevada prison after a jury found him guilty in 2008 of leading the gunpoint robbery of 2 sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel room.

The doctor convicted of orchestrating a 2009 bombing that left the chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board with serious injuries has again been sentenced to life in prison.

Credit rating agency's parent company denies fraud, tells court that U.S. government suit is "a stretch"

Democrat John Edwards was acquitted in May 2012 on a charge of misusing campaign funds to cover up an affair. / Chuck Burton, AP WASHINGTON â?? John Edwards said last year after his criminal trial on campaign finance charges that he believed he could still do some good with his life.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) - A former Central Michigan University student accused of putting bleach in her roommate's glass of iced tea following a dispute over dirty dishes will spend four months under house arrest and four months in jail.

OSSAA executive director Ed Sheakley said that while he hoped for a quick resolution to the case, scheduling the rest of the Class A state baseball tournament could be an issue over the next two weeks as schools have graduations and other end-of-year activities set.

Fifth Judicial Circuit Judge William Pearson approved a motion filed by defense attorneys to continue the upcoming trial for the remaining defendants in the Randal Boykin murder case.

A Gwinnett County judge ordered DragonCon co-founder Ed Kramer held without bond until his trial after she ruled he had violated his initial bond restrictions by visiting movie sets in other states. Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter went even further and accused Kramer of faking the physical ailments that have him wheelchair-bound in order to avoid trial. Kramer appeared in court ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The state Supreme Court is upholding a revised plan to redraw the boundaries of Pennsylvania's legislative districts, ruling that a panel's new plan is constitutional.The court's unanimous ruling Wednesday came after it initially rejected a map drawn by a five-member com...

A southern Indiana judge has sentenced a man to the maximum of 65 years in prison for fatally stabbing his estranged wife more than 50 times with a large pocket knife. Read more at www.WISHTV.com

Judicial Watch announced today a decision by the United States District Court for the District of Arizona dismissing a lawsuit by Phoenix police officers Daniel Bill, Bryan Hanania, and Michael Malpass, ...

A former Kaysville teacher and basketball coach has been ordered to stand trial on 11 felonies stemming from allegations of a...

Federal authorities say platinum-selling rapper Ja Rule has left federal prison.

Kevin Murphy was found guilty by a jury in Westmoreland County jury of murdering his mother, sister and aunt in 2009.

FREMONT — Wearing a lime-green safety vest over her clothing, a Perrysburg woman on Friday implored Sandusky County Common Pleas Judge John Dewey to send to jail the truck driver who struck and killed her husband while he worked on the Ohio Turnpike.

SPRINGFIELD -- The state is asking for more time to decide whether to appeal a Supreme Court ruling on concealed carry.

oddly enough Judge holds self in contempt for smartphone IONIA, Mich. A Michigan judge whose

For the second time, the state Department of Public Health and Environment has issued a license to Energy Fuels Resources to build a 500-ton-per-day uranium mill in the Paradox Valley of west Montrose County.

A Newton County, Missouri judge ordered Johnny Davis, 33, of Nowata County to serve 15 years on each charge. The sentences are to be served concurrently.

Wednesday May 8, 2013 ANDREW AMELINCKX Berkshire Eagle The former head of a Lenox school for troubled young women and his son and son-in-law are facing prison time and have agreed to pay back the state of Vermont and the U.S.government $3 million for what the U.S. Attorney's Office calls "egregious" tax and health care fraud connected to a Bennington, Vt.

CHARLESTON (JG-TC) — Two people accused of withholding information about the shooting death of Benjamin Newton last month made their first court appearances Monday and were both ordered to return in four weeks.

The last image that James Carroll would ever register 'is being stabbed to death and being shot in the back of the head' in the bedroom of Jeffrey Mundt's Old Louisville home. That's what ended a night of drugs and sex among Carroll, Mundt and Joseph Banis on Dec. 15, 2009, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Josh Schneider said in his opening argument.

MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) - A North Texas chiropractor has been sentenced to sentences of 23 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing female patients.

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 ...

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Closing arguments began on Tuesday in the fraud trial of two former fundraising associates of John Liu, a Democratic candidate in New York City's mayoral race, with prosecutors saying that he would have known the campaign routinely used illegal methods to solicit funds. Prosecutors told the jury that Jia Hou, the campaign's former treasurer, and Xing Wu Pan ...

Story by Marc Freeman / Sun Sentinel Posted by Miranda Grossman / CBS12 News BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Find Loki Boy. Thatâs the order from a Palm Beach County judge. Bank of America canât be declared the winner in its lawsuit against famed Boca Raton mansion squatter Andre Barbosa, until the bankâs lawyers first prove heâs been served with more court papers, Circuit Judge Jeffrey Gillen has ruled. ...

Stephanie Mikles, a behavioral specialist for Harford County Public Schools in Maryland, has been indicted for an “unnatural or perverted sexual practice" (video below). According to court records and photographs, the indictment claims Mikles had “sexual intercourse with a dog," reports the Baltimore News Journal . The alleged dog intercourse occurred back in August 2008, according to police ...

An Elko woman whose murder conviction was overturned by the Nevada Supreme Court is going back to trial in the killing of a ranch hand 10 years ago.

CASSOPOLIS — With the theme “New Challenges, New Solutions” for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week April 21-27, Cass County paused Tuesday to pay tribute to 83 lives lost due to violent crime since 1989.

MILFORD, Pa. — A Delaware Township man was convicted in a jury trial Thursday of firing four or five shots from a handgun at a vehicle driven by a woman on the road where he lived, said the Pike County District Attorney's Office.

MISSOULA - A Missoula man who killed two of his friends and seriously injured another one in a March 2012 DUI crash will spend four years in the Montana Department of Corrections.

View full sizeJerry Anderson Jones ... faces life in prison if convicted. MOBILE, Alabama – An alleged robber accused of shooting a man for his pants went on trial Tuesday, a judge denied bail for a local man charged with...