By Brad Bumsted, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review HARRISBURG — The state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a revised Pennsylvania legislative reapportionment plan, setting the stage for a 2014 election showdown between two ...

PEORIA — In December, three years and two months after his last interrogation about the Gee family deaths, Jason Harris recanted his claim that his brother was looking for sex with a teenage girl when he entered the family’s Beason home.

As tragedies like Boston and Newtown mount, scientists and criminologists are trying harder than ever to understand the minds behind the crimes

Convicted of murder in connection with the 1993 murder of a student at Illinois State University, 40-year-old Alan Beaman was the beneficiary of a formal finding of innocence Thursday in Champaign County Circuit Court. Convicted of murder in connection with the 1993 murder of a student at Illinois State University, 40-year-old Alan Beaman was the beneficiary of a formal finding of innocence ...

Attorneys don’t necessarily give their best performances in a courtroom. Erick Herrin has represented Johnson City during some tenuous times in that setting in a skirmish with U-Haul’s Nashville attorneys.

LAS VEGAS, May 18 — An attorney who O.J. Simpson claims botched his Nevada robbery trial five years ago told a court last night 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 ...        

A defense motion for a continuance in the capital murder trial of Gabriel Paul Hall has been denied by District Judge Travis Bryan III.

On Monday, a Wood County judge sentenced an East Texas man to life in prison after the man plead guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child.

PHILADELPHIA — Jury deliberations began on Tuesday in the murder trial of a Philadelphia doctor accused of killing babies and a patient during botched late-term abortions at a clinic serving low-income women.Dr. Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women's Medical Society Clinic, could face the death penalty if convicted by the jury in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia.The case focuses ...

BARBERTON — Christine Croce, presiding judge of the Barberton Municipal Court, has announced the court will hold a free informational eviction seminar for landlords and tenants April 23 at 5 p.m. at the Active Adult Center Barberton YMCA, 500 W. Hopocan Ave.

MISSOULA - Jason Washington will spend two years in federal prison in connection to his former medical marijuana business. A Missoula jury found Washington guilty in January of "conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana" and "possession with intent to distribute marijuana."

KINGMAN — Mohave County is on course to see almost twice as many trials in its court system in 2013 from the year before. The board of supervisors approved Monday the transfer of $65,500 in additional funding to cover the cost of ongoing juries and court reporting costs for criminal cases.

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., school they had operated.

John Edwards said last year after his criminal trial on campaign finance charges that he believed he could still do some good in his life.  

NORMAN — A Colorado man was sentenced to 177 years in prison Tuesday in Cleveland County District Court after pleading guilty to nearly 20 charges, including first-degree rape and several sexual assaults on Norman college students over a 15-year span.

A three-year slump in the number of applicants for the Monterey County Civil Grand Jury has sparked... - 3:25 pm

  Nearly 50,000 Washington state criminals and suspects are on the run, hiding either in-state or somewhere around the world.  All of them have warrants for their arrest, but a vast majority will never see the inside of a prison cell, even when police know where they are, because the cost of justice is simply too high.  KIRO 7 learned about a man wanted for a rape in Washington state who is now ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A northern New Jersey mother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin with her husband and son in what authorities are calling "a family affair."

The high profile case of prosecuting Boston Marathon bombing suspect - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - has been entrusted to two noted American attorneys one of whom is an Indian-American.

New York plans to seek the release of sealed court documents pertaining to the bloody retaking of Attica state prison after inmates rioted in 1971, an episode that remains the nation's bloodiest prison rebellion.

The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived side-by-side in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.        

NEW YORK -- Mesoblast's preclinical trial results of its allogeneic, or "off-the-shelf", Mesenchymal Precursor Cells (MPC) delivered by intracoronary infusion in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) ...

Judge Ann Aiken dismissed the copyright infringement case, ruling 615 defendants were improperly lumped together.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A judge who sentenced a Somali refugee to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a 50-year-old Portland woman had some harsh words for the defendant.        

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) -- We're learning more tonight about a Sunset Beach Police officer under investigation after prosecutors had to dismiss a court case in which he was a witness. The issue is notes the officer used in two different trials. Adrian Iapalucci has been practing law for more than 12 years and says he has seen it all. That was until last Wednesday "This is the first time that ...

A 23-year-old Chattanooga woman was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison for a 2010 homicide near the intersection of Main and Willow streets.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A Minnesota judge has sentenced a Missouri man to life in prison without parole for the fatal shootings of a Brooklyn Park home day-care provider and her elderly parents last year.

News of a female 22-year-old teacher and coach being accused of raping a 17-year-old female student has raised questions about the standard penalties in sex crime sentencing.

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., school they had operated.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — In an April 18 story about the sentencing of a former minister for the murder of a 24-year-old Michigan woman, The Associated Press erroneously reported the location of the church he led. The Christ Community Fellowship church is in Isabella County's Deerfield Township, about 120 miles northwest of Detroit, not in Lapeer County's Deerfield Township, which is about 60 ...

Pennsylvania judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. has been sentenced to almost three decades in jail after conspiring with private prisons to trade kids for cash. In the private prison industry, longer sentences earn more money from the state. Since 2003, Ciavarella received millions of dollars in bribes for condemning minors to maximum prison sentences. In one case, Ciavarella sentenced a 10-year-old to ...

After years of pretending to be a Navy SEAL and a member of law enforcement, a Rhode Island felon is facing multiple years in California and Rhode Island prisons after finally slipping up because of expired vehicle tags.

Attorney Rodney Mesriani, founder of the Mesriani Law Group, counsels the general public to observe traffic rules and comply with vehicle regulations to avoid being involved in costly and life altering car accidents.Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 19, 2013 Leading Los Angeles personal injury lawyer Rodney Mesriani, Esq. said today that a recent study conducted by the California Department of Motor ...

A convicted serial burglar blamed for stealing from dozens of North Texas businesses has been sentenced to 49 years in prison.

A 51-year-old Oregon man was sentenced to 121 months in federal prison and ten years of supervised release for distributing child pornography.

A South Dakota teenager accused of sexually abusing girls at his mother's home day care has been sentenced.

A fired state education official has pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of possession of child pornography.

OTTUMWA — A new date and venue have been entered in State v. Seth Techel, three months and two counties away. Defense attorneys Steven Gardner and Robert Box appeared in person in Judge Daniel Wilson's chambers at the Wapello County Courthouse Monday

Lucas James Gautreaux, 33, of Northeast Portland, works as a dishwasher for the food service provider at Oregon Episcopal School in Raleigh Hills, according to the private school's director of marketing and communications. He was arrested on federal charges and booked into the Multnomah County Jail, according to court records.

A Whiteside County court has agreed with the change of venue request from Nicholas Sheley's attorney. The court determined that a fair trial may be had in Rock Island. "The trial proceedings should be

Tracy Bradford will remain Hilliard's law director while an OVI charge against her is pending in Franklin County Municipal Court.