Dwight Wisdom Jr. will turn 21 in the confines of a Kentucky state prison.

Little more than six months after updating the rights of New Jersey’s crime victims, two lawmakers are looking to further strengthen the victim’s standing in court with legislation that would force a defendant to attend his sentencing to hear victim impact statements.

The retrial for Christian-Newsom murder suspect George Thomas got underway Monday morning.

HARRISBURG, Pa., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied review of a $700,000 predatory lending order against Girard Finance Company of Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County.The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission found the company and its owner Thomas Richter targeted minorities for unfair business loans.The court's May 15 decision ends appeals of the PHRC ...

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.

An Alabama resident who allegedly fled Genesee County justice and was later arrested in Arkansas is back in local custody, being held without bail. On March 27, 2012 , Benjamin William Muntz, 24, of Knowlesville Road, reportedly failed to appear for sentencing on his convictions for grand larceny, 3rd, burglary, 2nd, and criminal possession of stolen property, 5th. There were reports of him ...

Washington: Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan inched closer to scripting history as the first South Asian judge after a key Senate committee confirmed his nomination to the DC Circuit Court, America's second highest.

The newspaper was singled out for work on the eight-day sexual abuse trial. The Morning Call was recognized by the Associated Press this weekend with a first-place award for its coverage of the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse trial in June.        

An Oklahoma man who was arrested and jailed for allegedly raping a 4-year-old girl claims he begged cops for months to perform a DNA test, and when they finally did nearly three months later, he was proven innocent.        

A challenge of the August election results by countywide school board member Kenneth Whalum Jr. is scheduled to go to trial May 21 in Shelby County Ch...

PEORIA, Ill. -- Christopher Harris is charged with killing five members of the Gee family of Beason in 2009.

For the residents of Newport Beach, a new Wiki style web page has been released by the bankruptcy attorneys Zhou & Chini. The local residents can learn about the basics and get access to important California bankruptcy laws and government links. (PRWeb May 19, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/bankruptcy-information/Newport-Beach-attorney/prweb10742529.htm

The doctor convicted of involuntarily killing Michael Jackson appeared to be on trial again Wednesday as a lawyer for Jackson's mother tried to show the physician's desperate financial situation drove him to extremes...

Opponents of a proposed Las Vegas-style casino near Phoenix are asking a federal judge to reconsider his recent ruling that declared the construction plans legal.

MANCHESTER -- Murderer Steven Spader declined an opportunity to leave his Concord prison cell Monday and skipped a court hearing that could affect whether he is allowed to be paroled before he dies. Not only did 21-year-old Spader fail to appear at his re-sentencing hearing Monday, he demanded his attorneys not present evidence in his defense. That doesn’t mean Spader regrets killing Kimberly ...

Boston bombing widow Katherine Russell added attorney Joshua Dratel, who has represented several high level terror suspects, to her legal team on Wednesday.

A Georgia man charged with molesting a 6-year-old boy before choking him to death in 2007 should be committed to a state mental hospital, prosecutors and defense attorneys told a judge Thursday after experts testified the suspect would probably never be fit to stand trial.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - 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 Specialist Marshall Drake, stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, shoGrant Wis Private Grant Wise in the face in what military prosecutors described as an alcohol ...

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.

An inmate who escaped from a prison in Norfolk over the weekend is back in custody, according to Cara Savelli, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Stephen Gibbons was “declared missing from the property” of the Pondville Correctional Center shortly after 5 p.m. on Saturday, the spokeswoman said. The facility holds up to 160 inmates at a minimum security level and up to ...

DANVILLE -- Two teams from Danville Middle School competed in the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education's Middle School Mock Trial Showcase held April 11.

Attorneys want Utah man’s alleged murder confession barred by Jessica Miller The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 19, 2013 08:49AM MDT Attorneys for one-time death row inmate Douglas Lovell want to bar his admission in court to a 1985 murder from a new trial slated for next year. After hearing arguments on Friday, 2nd District Judge Michael Lyon said he would issue a written ruling at a later ...

(AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin). Carol Peifer, of Glendale, Ariz., places a sign in front of Maricopa County Superior Court as she and dozens of other spectators wait for a verdict in the Jodi Arias murder trial, Tuesday, May 7, 2013, in Phoenix.

A Myrtle Beach man was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison for robbing 14 bank in six states.

Defense attorney Alexander Lindsay, left, accompanies his clients Susan and Mark Hooper into Magisterial District Judge David Engman’s court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing. All charges against the couple were bound to court.

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 Georgia Supreme Court announced that Hugh P. Thompson has been elected Chief Justice and will be sworn in on Aug. 15.

Tapella & Eberspacher LLC is located midway between the communities of Mattoon and Charleston, Illinois and serves clients in state and federal courts throughout the Central and Southern Illinois area.

A British professional poker player is jailed for 20 years in the US for killing his wife, who disappeared in 1997.

MILWAUKEE—Federal court documents show the man who killed six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin was actively using the Internet to become

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A northeastern Pennsylvania doctor has been ordered held for trial on charges that he fired gunshots in his neighborhood and threatened a police officer in what authorities say was an alcohol-fueled incident in February.

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.        

Nevada's seal is displayed on the floor of the Supreme Court of Nevada building. / Liz Margerum/RGJ file photo • The Reno Gazette-Journal is suing the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System to obtain a list of retirees and their benefit amounts.

A state appeals court has made a ruling in the case involving a former Lake Charles gynecologist.

An 18-year-old Eastpointe man was sentenced to 6 to 20 years in prison today for raping an intoxicated woman.

Unemployed US bus driver Ariel Castro has appeared in an Ohio court to faces charges that he kidnapped and raped three young women and held them in his home for about a decade.

Even by the standards of America's troubled jails and prisons, the scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center is appalling.

DNA results undermine hair match that helped to lock away John Norman Huffington for 2 life terms.

A Lancaster man was tackled and then arrested Wednesday after he ran from a Fairfield County Municipal Court proceeding, police said.

A Hillsborough County Superior Court South jury Friday found a Franklin man innocent of criminal threatening with a deadly weapon after a two-day trial. Craig Moses, 23, was charged in connection with an incident outside an Amherst Street nightclub in Nashua in May 2012.

TRENTON — A New Jersey appeals court says the state government cannot seize towns' affordable housing money until broader legal issues are determined.