A jury has been chosen for the corruption trial of former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos.

STILLWATER, Okla. — Oklahoma State University will no longer try to appeal a ruling that blocked its attempts to recover $33 million in life insurance premiums spent on a failed fundraising plan, a university spokesman said.

The Blog reported last year on the case of Bob Means , who sued over his firing from counseling work at the Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center. He testified he was fired on the order of state Career Education Department Director Bill Walker , communicated though Robert Trevino , then head of state Rehabilitation Services. Means was awarded $110,000 — and his attorney, Scott Hickam, should be in ...

(WBNG Binghamton) In a court filing last month, former Endicott Interconnect CEO Jay McNamara told a federal judge if the company's private jet were taken away, and it lost a subsequent lawsuit, the result would likely be bankruptcy.

Da Vinci Robot Lawsuit Trial Underway in Washington State is Nation’s First Involving Allegations of Da Vinci Robotic Surgery Complications. (PRWeb May 19, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10735359.htm

An American man, identified as a tour guide and a Christian, will be put on trial in North Korea for alleged crimes against the state, revealed the Korean Central News Agency in a report that comes six months after Kenneth Bae's initial detention.

JACKSON, Mo. (AP) - A 19-year-old man from Arkansas could face up to 15 years in prison after admitting to stealing a car and using it to run down three joggers in Cape Girardeau, Mo.

Colorado's prison system aggressively pushes inmates out of prison early by awarding them "earned time" for rehabilitation programs they never complete and by failing to deduct such time in many cases when inmates later break the rules.

A southern Indiana judge is hearing testimony in the case of John R. Myers II. He is seeking to appeal his conviction in the 2000 slaying of Indiana University student Jill Behrman.

MANCHESTER – Attorneys on Monday will argue again whether Steven Spader should spend the rest of his natural life in prison for the murderous 2009 invasion of a Mont Vernon home. The sentencing hearing will take place in Hillsborough County Superior Court North before Judge Gillian L. Abramson, who presided over Spader’s trial. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for all day, and can run over to ...

An argument over a motorcycle turned to murder, and nine years later, detectives thought they might have finally solved the mystery of where the body was hidden after photos of a human skeleton were sent to a prison inmate.  John Price is in a Washington state prison serving time for murder.  Last month, he was mailed a letter with pictures of a skeleton investigators thought might have been the ...

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio The special grand jury investigating whether there was additional wrongdoing connected to the August rape of a 16-year-old girl began its work this morning. Jurors are meeting behind closed doors and within the locked gate of the Jefferson County 911 Center. It's not clear if the change of venue was due to the desire for secrecy or a scheduling conflict at the courthouse ...

A new report by the Justice Department found prison inmates in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Philadelphia suffered a higher-than-average rate of sexual abuse at the hands of guards.

News 9's Lisa Monahan was inside the courtroom Thursday as the murder trial for Becky Bryan entered its fourth day. These are her notes and not a word-for-word representation of what was said.

For people with mental illnesses in Boone County, help is scarce and costly. The few treatment facilities have limited funding. That has made the Boone County Jail the default mental health facility for the county.  Read more

The United States' Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organisations gather the news.

[Updated 4:30 p.m. ET] CLEVELAND, Ohio—A judge set bail at $8 million at a brief hearing Thursday for Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of kidnapping and keeping three young women as captives for a decade. The lawyer prosecuting the case said he may seek the death penalty against Castro. Cleveland Municipal Judge Lauren C. [...]

Texas company ordered to pay 32 mentally disabled workers damages for what lawyers describe as around-the-clock abuse

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal appeals court to stop a copyright troll's shakedown scheme in a case linked to the notorious Prenda Law firm.

Philadelphia — A housekeeper has pleaded guilty to state court charges in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust taken from a home in suburban Philadelphia.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) - A Somali national was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for killing the mother of his child and three other people in North Dakota two years ago.

A judge on Friday upheld Steven Spader’s sentence of life without parole for the first-degree murder of Kimberly Cates in 2010. Spader, 21, also will continue to serve 76 years to life on four additional charges. Judge Jillian Abramson announced that Spader refused transport to the Hillsborough County Superior Court for his sentencing hearing Friday just as he did Monday. Abramson said the ...

Ann McDonald, the former Kent Woodlands woman who hired two hitmen to kill her husband in 1991, died in state prison Thursday.

All roads surrounding the Circuit Court building on Halekauwila have been reopened, and the all-clear has been given by the Honolulu Police Department after a bomb threat in downtown Honolulu on Thursday morning.

HARRISBURG 8212 A year after a five-member legislative redistricting panel approved new boundaries for state House and Senate districts, the state Supreme Court deemed the plan constitutional Wednesday in a 6-0 decision.

Consumer Attorney Services offers bankruptcy and foreclosure defense help to Utah homeowners after Kurt Laird joined Consumer Attorney Services’ national foreclosure defense team in May. (PRWeb May 09, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/consumer-attorney-service/utah-foreclosure-defense/prweb10706326.htm

Rachel Swan Special to The S.F. Examiner Like every court system in California, San Mateo County felt the pinch of budget cuts this year, and it’s enough to rattle administrators. In January, Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cuts that would leave the court with a crippling $4.5 million deficit. Barring a May revision of that proposal, the court would have to adjust by eliminating five commissioners ...

York County's future political landscape has been mapped, with turf boundaries apparently settled in a two-year battle over state House and Senate redistricting.

FORT GIBSON, Okla., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice will honor former tribal judge Dianne Barker Harrold for 33 years of dedicated service to tribal victims.  Attorney General Eric Holder will present her with an award during the National Crime Victims' Rights Week awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in Washington, D.C."These committed individuals are ...

A Northglenn man was sentenced Monday to more than 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to sending methamphetamine from Colorado to Fairbanks, Alaska.

Having served on my share of juries, including a six-week legal malpractice trial over a Malibu real estate deal gone south that gives me a headache just to think about, I think the push to allow non-citizens to serve on California juries is kind of a genius move.        

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) â A Utah appellate judge has been named to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The White House announced Judge Carolyn B. McHugh on Thursday as President Barack Obama's latest appointment to the federal appeals court in Denver. ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A Blackfoot man who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for his role in a traffic crash last summer has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Brooklyn district attorney is taking another look at every murder conviction in cases involving a lead investigator who was linked to "troubling aspects" of one case that was recently overturned, a spokesman said on Monday. "We are looking at about 50 cases that (retired Detective Louis) Scarcella was the lead detective on," said Jerry Schmetterer, the chief spokesman ...

A 74-year-old former state senator who secretly recorded other lawmakers in a bid for leniency for her role in a corruption scandal is facing up to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty to embezzling money.

Collyn Erion dominated nearly never opponent he played this season, forcing them into errors with maddening consistency on the court.

For weeks, jurors in Philadelphia heard grim testimony about deaths and squalor at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's inner-city abortion clinic. While they listened, the murder case reverberated far beyond the courtroom, changing — at least for the moment — the tone of the national debate on abortion.

DNA Evidence Links Accused To Crime

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Mimi DesJardins resigned as a 2nd Circuit Family Court judge Tuesday, the same day a complaint was filed in Wailuku District Court charging her with tampering with a government record, according to the state Judiciary.

Bobby Ferguson's wife is suing him for child support, a move that could either help or hurt his ability to get a free court-appointed lawyer in his upcoming bid-rigging trial.