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A former Florida judge whose legal career ended amid accusations about his relationship with a stripper was sentenced to one year probation for bank fraud.
A federal judge from Louisiana was falling deeply into gambling debt as he routinely solicited money and gifts from attorneys with cases before his court, congressional investigators said Tuesday as a House panel opened impeachment hearings against the judge.
The Supreme Court will not review an $18 million verdict won by a lawyer who served as a co-chairman of the trial judge's re-election committee.
A Maryland judge has apologized for engaging in a bit of vigilante justice when he let the air out of the tire of a courthouse employee who parked in a restricted area.
A former Alabama judge was cleared Monday of charges that he spanked and sexually abused male inmates.
Kidnapping and extortion charges against a former Alabama judge were dismissed Wednesday, but a jury will deliberate the remaining felony counts accusing him of paddling and sexually abusing male inmates in return for leniency.
An Alabama man with a lengthy criminal record testified Tuesday that a judge who helped secure his release from jail as a teenager later spanked him with a belt and had sexual contact with him.
A prosecutor depicted a former Alabama judge on Friday as a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" who had sex with jail inmates in return for leniency while claiming to straighten out their lives.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Gerard Lynch for the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, giving overwhelming approval to the New York judge who presided over cases involving former basketball coach Isiah Thomas and recording artist Lil' Kim.
The White House plans to nominate the judge who presided over the Bernard Madoff case to the appeals court that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor served on, Sen. Charles Schumer said Wednesday.
The Spanish judge best known for indicting Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden appeared in court Wednesday with the tables turned: this time he was a suspect, accused of overstepping his authority in a huge domestic case involving Spanish civil war atrocities.
Arson charges have been dropped against the wife of a Texas Supreme Court justice in a fire that destroyed their home in a Houston suburb.
A former Superior Court judge has been denied his request for a disability pension he said he was entitled to because of stress caused by critical newspaper articles.
A circuit court judge has acknowledged he deflated a tire on a car parked in a restricted area near his courthouse earlier this week. But he isn't apologizing.
A retired state Supreme Court judge who procured prostitutes for his social club, including one woman who had appeared before him in court and another who was in the country illegally, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison.
A former Florida appeals court judge who resigned amid controversy over his financial and personal relationship with a stripper has pleaded guilty to bank fraud.
Judge James B. Zagel has meted out justice on the silver screen and masterminded a bank robbery in the pages of a novel.
The Senate has officially dismissed impeachment articles against a federal judge from Texas who is in prison in a sex-abuse case.
A high-ranking federal judge who made sexually explicit material available on the Internet was cleared of judicial misconduct with an admonishment Thursday by fellow judges.
A magisterial district judge in suburban Philadelphia is accused of reducing a fine her grandson got for underage drinking and screaming at a police officer.
An imprisoned federal judge facing an impeachment trial in the Senate in a sex-abuse case says he will resign from the bench at the end of the month.
The Senate began work Wednesday to force an imprisoned federal judge out of office.
A House committee unanimously approved four articles of impeachment against a federal judge Wednesday in an attempt to remove him from office for lying about sexually assaulting two women.
Did you hear the one about the three judges who go duck hunting? Sonia Sotomayor has.
A convicted federal judge told the president Tuesday he would resign from the bench in June 2010, nearly a year after he enters prison for lying about sexually abusing two assistants.
Magistrate allows inmate to leave jail for ThanksgivingHe has a criminal history stretching decades.
Soap Operas Prompt India Divorce: Husband Prohibited Wife from Watching Them"An Indian woman was granted a divorce on the grounds that her husband was cruel to stop her watching soap operas."
Government Will Pay $3 Million in Coffee Table Spying SuitThe U.S. has agreed to pay $3 million to a former government worker who accused officials with the CIA and State Department of spying on him with a bugged coffee table.
Florida woman gets 25 years for DUI crash that killed 2 A Panhandle woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that left two people dead.
Self-proclaimed minister guilty of harvesting 100 marijuana plants A self-proclaimed minister who claimed he smokes marijuana for religious and health reasons has been found guilty of illegally harvesting 100 of the plants.
The recent killings at Fort Hood and Orlando have proven several examples, in my humble opinion, of how things have gone awry or gotten twisted in today's society.
Suspected gunman denied bond A man charged with killing a worker and wounding five others in the Orlando engineering firm where he once worked has been denied bond.
Man stole car to face judge on auto theft charge The California Highway Patrol say a man stole a car to make a court appearance on a previous auto theft charge.
Judge: Mich. man can sue store he robbedMOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — A Michigan judge says a man who claims he was chased, shot and beaten by workers at a store he'd just robbed can sue the men. But only if he comes up with $10,000 within two weeks.
6 months for 1 finger Kane Kellett's unusual method of raising his right hand to be sworn in earned him a six-month contempt of court sentence in McHenry County Court over the weekend.
Judge OKs Challenge to Patents on Human GenesA federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. More Articles
Man Throws Feces In CourtroomSAN DIEGO—A man who sneaked a bag of his feces into a San Diego courtroom during his home-invasion robbery trial, smeared it on his lawyer and threw it at jurors has been sentenced to 31 years in prison.
2 more judges in Hall of ShameWho are Judges Richard Moses and Janet Sanders?
Fake Lawyer Arrested, Kicked Out Of CourtEyewitness News discovered a man that judges say was pretending to be a lawyer and has been working on real cases inside the Orange County courthouse for months.
Father denied bond in death of newborn son A Clearwater father was denied bond this morning in the death of his 5-week-old son.
Final Update: Fathima Rifqa Bary to return home -- OrlandoSentinel.comFathima Rifqa Bary, the Ohio teenage runaway whose story of Muslim-to-Christianity conversion and charges of family abuse sparked debates about personal freedom, is going back to her home state.
Judge can't skip court date for drunken-driving sentence (Alaska)An Anchorage Superior Court judge accused of drunken driving must appear in court to be sentenced, another judge ruled today.
Father shoots judge and politician who abused his 3 year old daughterA dad who shot dead a judge and a senior politician because they molested his three-year old daughter has become a national hero after going on the run in Lithuania.
Things that make you scratch your head...Watching CNN today, a story caught my eye about a Louisiana justice of peace denying an interracial couple a marriage license. According to Keith Bardwell (the justice of peace), "I'm not a racist, I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house.
Update: Judge won't dismiss charges against Casey Anthony Casey Anthony was back in court Friday morning for a hearing in her first-degree murder case.
Gangster cites sleepy judge in forced tattoo case appealA lay judge slept his way through a court case which resulted in the convictions of two gangsters for forcing an 18-year-old boy to cover an offending tattoo, one of the men has claimed in his appeal to the Supreme Court.
Toyota Can Peek Inside Four Boxes of Evidence, but Not Plaintiffs AttorneysA federal judge on Wednesday issued an order securing four boxes of evidence in a criminal fraud case in Texas and forbidding Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. to touch them without the proper supervision.
Ohio Ten Commandments Judge Loses AgainJudge DeWeese tried to pretend that he had a secular purpose in putting up the display:My purpose in creating and displaying this poster was to express my views about two warring legal philosophies that motivate behavior and the consequences that I have personally witnessed in my …
Update: Orlando judge says he'll send Rifqa Bary back to Ohio -- OrlandoSentinel.comAn Orange County Circuit judge said today he will send Ohio runaway Fathima Rifqa Bary back to her home state, but only after her parents provide immigration paperwork and other officials ensure she can continue her schooling through a Florida online school.
Judge: abortion laws protect girl who sought pregnancy-ending beating judge has released a 17-year-old Vernal girl from jail after ruling she did not commit a crime when she allegedly paid a man to beat her in an attempt to end her late-term pregnancy.
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