Massachusetts' highest court will consider cases in which prosecutors are challenging how lower courts are handling drug convictions jeopardized by alleged misconduct of a chemist at a state drug-testing lab.

A Delaware man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for plotting to sell heroin and cocaine on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jimmy Smith, a former receiver of the Jacksonville Jaguars from 1995 through 2005, has landed himself in prison. Smith is serving six years of jail time, according to Gregg Rosenthal of NFL.com , for possession of cocaine and an illegal firearm: Former Jacksonville Jaguars standout Jimmy Smith currently is serving a six-year sentence in Mississippi prison on two charges, the Mississippi ...

A Florida man reportedly on the run from authorities was nabbed in Clark on Monday by a task force of local and federal law enforcement officers. Park County Sheriff Scott Steward announced the arrest of fugitive David Leon Lashley, 50, in a Tuesday morning news release. Lashley had skipped out on a February court appearance in Florida and assumed the fake name of Wesley Byrd, Steward said ...

Harrisburg mayoral candidate Eric Papenfuse has suggested entering bankruptcy would hand control of the city over to an unelected federal judge, but that's just not true.

Kimberly Yvette Dinkins was sentenced to 18 months in prison for dealing firearms without a license.

Attorneys for Client Network Services, Inc. filed a petition in Louisiana state court today, seeking a declaratory judgment against the state and alleging the bad faith breach of contract in the state’s termination of CNSI’s contract with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.

VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. - Attorneys for a 12-year-old California boy charged with killing his sister said Wednesday they wonder if he is mature enough to aid his defense.

By Liz Zemba, Tribune-Review Five candidates are seeking two openings on Common Pleas Court in Fayette County. Gerald Solomon and Ralph Warman retired and work as part-time senior judges. ...

Former National Basketball Players Association Executive Director Billy Hunter sued the union, President Derek Fisher and his publicist, alleging they undermined Hunter’s efforts to reach agreement on a new labor contract with the league.

Kiera Wilmot was handcuffed at her high school, hustled into the back of a police car and taken to jail for something that should have sent her to a few days of after-school detention.

Jury selected, state begins presenting case

Seahawks quarterback Josh Portis was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on May 5, and will be arraigned in King County District Court in Redmond on May 28.

Sanofi (SAN) won a U.S. appeals court ruling yesterday that revives a patent-infringement claim over generic versions of the allergy drug Allegra. A trial judge erred in interpreting a patent on the drug that covers a process to make the active ingredient in the medicine, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in an opinion posted on the court’s website.

Campfield blogged in '08 race that Roger Byrge had drug arrests, later determined to belonged to Byrge's son More

WASHINGTON – Among the litany of frustrations President Obama is experiencing in his dealings with Congress is what to do about Guantanamo, and the 160 men detained in the prison’s deteriorating facilities.

Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this week regarding gay marriage represent one of those delicious situations likely to compel Americans — including those nine on the court — to confront their own competing beliefs and biases, and to choose.

U.S. Judge Dismisses Obstruction Charge Against Former BP Executive In Deepwater Horizon Case

A judge in New York expressed concern over the number of stops conducted by city police that fail to result in arrests, summonses or the seizure of illegal weapons.

ABINGDON, Va. — The Western District Federal Court of Virginia has convicted John Hayes of Falls Mills, Va., near Bluefield, guilty of damaging natural resources and hunting over bait in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests.

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court has agreed to review a pair of cases, one that involves a school principal’s failure to immediately pass along a student’s report of rape and the other about expectations of privacy for commenters on news media websites.

Two of three inmates who walked away from a northeast Kansas prison are in custody in northwest Missouri.

A former Kirtland man was sentenced to more than two years in prison for filing false income taxes

McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce the addition of three new attorneys to the firm’s Florida offices. Mizell Campbell Jr. and Jennifer Chapkin have joined the firm in Fort Lauderdale, and Elizabeth “Betsy” Haslett has joined the Jacksonville office.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A psychiatrist says a Vermont man shot and wounded by police after allegedly assaulting two Winooski officers is not mentally competent to stand trial.        

Peoria -- Jurors are expected to return to court in the trial of a man charged with beating five members of a central Illinois to death in 2009.

George Zimmerman's defense has released several new documents, most notably a motion from prosecutor

The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled that there is no employment protection for people who use marijuana. In a split decision issued on Thursday, the court said marijuana use is still barred by the ...

El Paso County Judge Veronica Escobar will ask county commissioners at today's meeting to oppose two House bills that would limit the power of the court to ban fireworks during drought conditions.

Students from Chambersburg Area and Greencastle-Antrim school districts participated in a mock trial during a Law Day observance on May 3.

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:58:03 GMT By CHRIS BRISTOL Yakima Herald-Republic Color/BlackColor/BlackAshley A convicted sex offender from Yakima with a history of exploiting troubled teenage girls is heading back to prison following his third conviction Thursday for failing to register. Thomas A. Ashley, 47, faces a sentence of 43 to 57 months in prison when he...

By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs Group Inc(GS.N) board member Rajat Gupta sought to reverse his insider-trading conviction on Tuesday, arguing that wiretap evidence ...

The State of Tennessee will receive approximately $40 million as a result of the settlement of a long-running dispute between two publicly traded corporations and the court-appointed Receiver for two Tennessee ...

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 ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The three-year-old battle over the proposed expansion of a northern West Virginia surface mine is now headed for the state Supreme Court. The Sierra Club is appealing a March ruling in Kanawha County Circuit Court that favored the stat...

Va. attorney general no longer says his office is exempt from state public records laws.

A smattering of marriage equality and LGBT rights stories to share with you tonight. A lesbian couple will no longer live together after a judge ordered it as a condition of a divorce settlement.

A long-awaited report by the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct on whether judges should have special license plates on their personal vehicles concludes there is nothing inherently unethical about a judge publicly displaying his or her position, even though it may result in preferential treatment.

Lawyers and supporters for the California Innocence Project are walking 660 miles from San Diego to Sacramento, California, to personally deliver clemency petitions to Governor Jerry Brown for the release of the California 12, a dozen inmates who have strong cases of factual innocence. Follow their progress on TakePart.

LITTLE ROCK, AR - A federal judge resentenced former Russellville physician Randeep Mann on Wednesday to life in prison for the bombing of former Arkansas State Medical Board chairman Dr. Trent Pierce.