Posts in category Courts

By JULIET LINDERMAN Associated Press   BALTIMORE – A Baltimore judge dealt the state yet another blow in the protracted and unsuccessful prosecution of six …

WASHINGTON – President Obama has made his choice to fill the vacancy on the US Supreme Court.  Current Chief Judge of the DC Court of …

WASHINGTON (AP) – Florida’s unique system for sentencing people to death is unconstitutional because it gives too much power to judges, and not enough to …

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Los Angeles police chief has recommended criminal charges against an officer who shot and killed an unarmed homeless man. The …

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Police have booked a woman they say abandoned her child and fought officers as they arrested her. Multiple news outlets …

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A former South Carolina policeman charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist will remain under house …

TALLAHASSEE – A police officer tried to put a woman into a patrol car after she collapsed at a hospital, believing that she was “making …

TALLAHASSEE – A woman who collapsed after police arrested her for refusing to leave a Florida hospital when doctors discharged her died from a blood …

HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) – A grand jury decided on Monday that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers in the treatment …

DETROIT – The former chief of staff to ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is scheduled to appear in a TV series. Christine Beatty is among those …