BY JACK MURTHA Staff Writer After a lengthy legal battle with a 10- year prison sentence on the line, a Manalapan man who pleaded guilty to two narcotics charges in 2010 is expected to soon find himself behind bars. John J. Rockford III, of Manalapan, is scheduled to appear before state Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Mellaci Jr. in Freehold at 9 a.m. May 31. read more

A former corrections officer has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring contraband to the inmates at the Maury County jail in exchange for cash.

Federal trial for a former Las Vegas physician-clinic owner and his office manager in a 2007 hepatitis C outbreak is being delayed until later this year.

Lawmakers are pushing legislation to allow local hospitals to do blood tests because of a backlog at North Carolina's crime lab. The Gaston County district attorney said Carter Mitchell is a prime reason why the law needs to be changed. Mitchell was charged with DWI in February 2011. His blood was taken then, but results still have not come back. Since then, he has picked up two more DWI charges ...

Common Pleas Judge Arthur Tilson will be 70 next week, the age for mandatory judge retirement in Pennsylvania. He's asking the Pa. Supreme Court for a change.

A Saudi man has been segregated from other inmates after a Denver Post news story revealed authorities in the Tom Clements murder investigation are exploring possible links between Homaidan al-Turki and a white supremacist prison gang.

Carlo Lamarr-Marquis Owens, a former Ohio State student charged in connection with two campus-area murders and two armed robberies, was not present in court Friday morning when his bail was set at $1.5 million.

Under Washington's capital punishment statute, defendants in Washington state convicted of aggravated first-degree murder may be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole or they may be sentenced to death. A defendant may be found guilty of aggravated first degree murder if he or she commits first degree murder with the following aggravating circumstances:   (1) The murderer ...

(AP Photo/Ferd Kaufman, File). FILE - In this May 23,1962 file photo, Billie Sol Estes, left, and his attorney John Cofer of Austin, Tex. are shown as they arrived at the federal court house in El Paso, Texas.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson became so dependent on his lawyer during his Las Vegas armed robbery trial that the former football star would have done anything Yale Galanter advised — including passing up the chance to testify, his co-counsel testified Tuesday.

The great state of West Virginia has come up with a new law that would drag teenagers to court for sexting each other.  read more        

A Washtenaw County man has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison for the death of his girlfriend's 14-month-old son.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana state prison officials are using customized playing cards for a deadly serious purpose: To help unlock the mysteries of unsolved murders and persons gone missing.

       

The former pro-wrestler who is HIV positive and had unprotected sex with a dozen women in three counties won’t be serving any more than the 32-year prison term he received in Hamilton County, but a Warren County judge ensured he won’t get out earlier. Andre Davis — known as the “Gangsta of Love” during his wrestling days — appeared Tuesday before Judge Don Oda in a green jail jumpsuit, his hands ...

COLUMBIANA, Ala. (AP) — Bond has been reduced for a man accused of holding a group of girls at gunpoint in a middle school locker room in February. A Shelby County judge Wednesday reduced bond for 21-year-old Ryan Matthew Sims, of Chelsea, from $5 million to $515,000. Sims is accused of prompting a lockdown at Chelsea Middle School when a group of girls were held at gunpoint in a locker room for ...

Former Cameron County District Attorney is the highest-profile target of a years-long federal investigation into legal corruption to go to trial.

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

A federal judge has rejected a $65,000 settlement offer in a case involving the alleged rape of a young girl at the former Mount Hope High School, while at the same time throwing out negligence claims against one of the teachers originally listed in the suit.

Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former chief executive of Enron, has reached a deal with the Justice Department to shorten his prison term by as much as a decade, according to a court filing.

In Polk County, the epicenter for most child abuse in Iowa, formal court petitions filed so the state can seek custody of abused children are rising again.

A 31-year-old Jackson man was arrested May 13 after he tried to steal an ATM from a foyer outside a local credit union.

Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick Receives Award for Legal Excellence and is Honored by the Historical Society of New York Courts (PRWeb May 01, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10692244.htm

A pair of old headphones sat atop a legal pad on Christopher Orman's desk. He wasn't listening to music. As the incoming assistant city attorney and prosecutor to take over when August Petropulos steps down, Orman, 36, is listening to court transcripts.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has tied the case currently unfolding in Cleveland to an Indiana newspaper article from 2008 about the trial of a woman named Emily Castro , believed to be one of Ariel Castro's daughters.

After long cancer battle, Gardner dies at 68. She was elected clerk in 2000. After a long illness, Orange County Clerk of Courts Lydia Gardner died in a Winter Park hospital early Thursday.

New Mexico's highest court gave a green light Monday to the state's top water manager to decide proposed water rights transfers to help increase flows in the drought-stricken Pecos River.

The Supreme Court has rejected Alabama's appeal to revive portions of a state immigration law, including a section that made it a crime to harbor people who are living in the country illegally.

IOWA CITY — The group meets Monday mornings in the Johnson County Attorney’s Office to see who they can try to get out of the county jail. One would expect public defender Tom Woods and jail alternatives counselor Emily Hurst to be trying to secure an inmate’s release. But Lt. Kevin Bell of the jail [...]

SPARTA — Thomas Ryan, Esq., managing partner and Chair of Laddey, Clark and Ryan’s Employment and Labor Practice Group, recently appeared as a panelist at a seminar on Keeping Pace With Employment Law presented by the Morris County Bar Association.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A U.S. Army soldier was sentenced on Thursday to nearly 12 years in a military prison for shooting and killing a fellow soldier early on Christmas Day, officials said. Army Spc.

"You cannot take the freedom of law-abiding Americans...and keep your own freedom"        

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - An Iowa man has been sentenced in a Nebraska federal courtroom to 18 months in prison for having stolen explosives. U.S. Attorney for Nebraska Deb Gilg says 43-year-old Christopher Bousman, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced Monday.

Anthony Verna Sr. was re-certified as a Lebanon County district judge after completing legal education course work, according to the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.

By Barbara Liston SANFORD (Reuters) - Lawyers seeking to overturn the murder conviction of a Honduran man who has been on Florida's death row since 2006 presented new DNA and blood stain evidence in a Florida court on Tuesday. Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin, 33, was convicted in the 2004 murders of his neighbors at a Seminole County trailer park. Cheryl Williams, 47, was stabbed 129 times, and her ...

LAKE COUNTY -- The stage is getting set for next week s courtroom showdown between Sheriff Frank Rivero and District Attorney Don Anderson.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A federal judge in Memphis has sentenced a longtime Memphis educator to seven years in prison in a test-taking fraud scheme. Clarence Mumford Sr. pleaded guilty in February to leading a 15-year scheme that helped teachers cheat on qualification exams.

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A dramatic increase in gun violence is prompting federal officials to join a new Indianapolis crime-fighting initiative by providing immediate help in five high-crime areas.

A Broward man who formerly worked as a consultant for the Florida Department of Transportation was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Tuesday for taking a bribe, court records show.        

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Jurors in the double murder trial of Brett Parker Friday heard from a friend of one of the people killed and forensic experts.