O.J. Simpson and his defense attorney Ozzie Fumo confer during an evidentiary hearing for Simpson in Clark County District Court on May 17, 2013 in Las Vegas.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - After fleeing to Israel following an immigration raid in 2008, a former manager at a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa finally appeared in a U.S. courtroom Friday to face charges that he conspired to exploit immigrant workers for profit.

High court hears arguments from judges who contend that mandatory retirement at age 70 is discriminatory, violates Constitution. HARRISBURG — When Pennsylvania last voted to amend the state Constitution in 1968, it adopted a provision to ensure that judges didn't stay on the bench longer than their minds stayed sharp.        

CLEVELAND (CNN) – Ariel Castro maintained his home as a prison for three young women, holding them in seclusion and...

South Carolina lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that would give federal authorities information about people who have been determined by a court to have mental problems.

A Michigan State Police lieutenant has reached a plea deal after being accused of stealing property seized during drug operations and other crimes.

Steven Barrett says grand jurors may have received erroneous instructions in case of black teenager shot dead by NYPD officer More than a year after their unarmed son was killed in his bathroom by a police officer, the parents of a New York teenager have been confronted with the prospect of starting the lengthy grand jury process all over again. Constance Malcolm and Franclot Graham, the parents ...

Fri, 10 May 2013 04:47:17 GMT The Associated Press Prosecutors have asked a federal appeals court to reinstate the death penalty sentence handed down to a man who killed three people in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Gary Sampson, a drifter who grew up in Abington, Mass., was convicted in 2003 of killi...

Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN: Federal prosecutors today dropped the charges against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Obama and a senator. Paul Kevin Curtis went free a day after an FBI agent testified that authorities found no incriminating evidence at his home. He spoke to reporters after leaving jail. PAUL KEVIN CURTIS, FORMER ...

Attorneys file motions to dismiss and say judge erred Dennis DeMartin's attorneys on Wednesday quickly began fighting back against the criminal contempt charge facing the beleaguered former juror from polo mogul John Goodman's DUI manslaughter trial.        

More than 5 shots fired on a quiet street in Rogers, putting one man in the hospital, two in jail and a neighborhood on edge.

PORTAGE — A former Wisconsin Dells cashier was found guilty of felony theft at the conclusion of a three-day trial.

Literacy Volunteers of Union County, which provides free tutoring for adults struggling to read, write and speak English, has elected attorney Hollie Teslow of Morristown and certified public accountant James Sosinski of Scotch Plains to its volunteer board of directors.

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.

State attorneys successfully quashed testimony on issues key to Vernon Hershberger's defense, including the quality of his raw milk.

WHEELING, W.Va. -- 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. Anita Ambler of Reva, Va...

A federal appeals court is revisiting a case that asks if a digital thumbs-up qualifies as protected speech        

Federal prosecutors charged four metro Atlanta people with faking emission tests on thousands of cars. Investigators believe 34-year-old Jerome Clarence Barnes recruited three others, who are also facing federal conspiracy charges. They performed more than 4,000 fraudulent emission inspections and issued emission certifications falsely stating that the identified vehicle passed the emission test ...

BUFFALO — A veteran Niagara Regional Police constable has been sentenced to one year and one day in jail for smuggling anabolic steroids from New York State into Canada.

An evidence expert took the stand today in the murder trial of a Detroit man who is accused of killing a Harrison Twp. pawn shop manager in 2011. The trial began Thursday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Darren Taylor, 48, faces four counts of murder and two counts apiece of aggravated robbery and felonious assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of having a weapon while under ...

A judge sentenced four Upstate residents who admitted to being part of a conspiracy that stole mail from hundreds of people.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Alabama's appeal to revive portions of a state immigration law.

Willie Jerome Manning, 44, who has spent nearly 19 years on death row in Mississippi, is scheduled to be executed tonight for the 1992 double-murder of two college students. However, some investigators in the case question the quality of the evidence used in the man’s 1994 conviction. Manning was arrested and convicted, given two death [...] Mississippi Death Row Inmate Scheduled To Be Executed ...

After the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, states were supposed to get better about entering court findings of mental illness into a federal database for background checks, but that's not happening everywhere.

A man who claimed to be the ex-lover of Liberace pled guilty Wednesday in Washoe District Court to two counts of burglary and use of personal identification of another person.

Laurence Stewart is accused of throwing pipe bombs at homes, police

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth graduate commencement was held Saturday. Judge Phillip Rapoza, chief justice of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, delivered the graduate address and received an honorary Doctor of Law degree.

Predictably, Lindsay Lohan has royally cocked-up the one thing she was supposed to do in order to not spend time in prison: go to rehab. The actress was due to enter a facility in Newport, California for 90 days as part of an agreed plea deal following a trial in March but ended up leaving [...] The post Lindsay Lohan risks arrest after not checking into rehab appeared first on Mr Paparazzi .

Port Huron — A 38-year-old woman has been charged with falsely reporting a rape at her eastern Michigan home, five months after a man convicted of sexually assaulting her in a different case was released from prison because of similar reports of bogus allegations.

A Waynesboro woman whose 19 Rottweilers were surrendered to Antietam Humane Society in March was found guilty of neglect at a hearing Monday before Magisterial District Judge Larry Pentz.

16-mile time trial held Saturday in Hawi Place/Name Age Time

Rhinelander - The Rhinelander High School Mock Trial team won the State Championship in March.

Delaware Department of Correction officials say an inmate serving three life sentences for a 1995 slaying has died after an illness.

A defense attorney says he will appeal a judge's refusal to reconsider a Deerfield's man 47-year prison term for killing his girlfriend's mother with a baseball bat.

Vermont is the first state to permit physician-assisted suicide by legislation, rather than referendum or court order.

Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Krusinski appeared in a Virginia courtroom Thursday after he was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery in a case that has garnered national attention because of the proliferation of sexual assault and abuse cases in the military Krusinski, who graduated from Fairfield High School, was chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Assault Office. He was removed from the post ...

Yolo County Superior Court, along with courts throughout California, will be celebrating Juror Appreciation Week, scheduled for May 13 through May 17.The California Legislature decreed that "the second full week in May of each year shall be proclaimed and celebrated as annual Juror Appreciation

By Melinda Dickinson and Sherrel Stewart BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's Jefferson County expects to file a plan by late June to exit its landmark $4.2 billion municipal bankruptcy, a lawyer for the county said on Thursday. The 18-month-old case is a testing ground for how bondholders fare when a local government debtor becomes insolvent. Jefferson County, whose exit plan appears ...

A 42-page ruling issued by the Virginia Supreme Court last Thursday upheld the ruling of the Fairfax Circuit Court that conveyed the property of the historic Falls Church in downtown Falls Church to the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, and its congregation of Episcopalians who did not defect from that church [...]

 A Chenoa man accused of killing his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter is opting to skip a jury trial and instead let a judge decide his guilt or innocence.

NEW HAVEN — The defense attorney for Robert Braddock Jr. accused the U.S. government of creating a “case based on criminals” in its indictment against Christopher Donovan's former campaign finance director.