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  • Driver due in court in Cleveland officer's hit-and-run death

    Driver due in court in Cleveland officer's hit-and-run death

    Headline Legal News 01/26/2017

    The driver accused in the fatal hit-and-run of a Cleveland patrolman on an interstate is set to appear in court. Forty-four-year-old Israel Alvarez, of Lorain, was scheduled for arraignment Thursday morning on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide...

  • Greek court rejects extradition for Turkish servicemen

    Greek court rejects extradition for Turkish servicemen

    Legal Events 01/25/2017

    Greece's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an extradition request for eight Turkish servicemen who fled their country by helicopter after a coup attempt. Presiding judge Giorgos Sakkas, reading out the decision, said the servicemen were unlikely to ...

  • Kyrgyz court confirms life sentence for journalist

    Kyrgyz court confirms life sentence for journalist

    Court Watch 01/24/2017

    A court in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for an ethnic Uzbek journalist in a case that has drawn international criticism. Azimzhan Askarov was convicted in 2010 for stirring up ethnic hatred, a charge related to ethnic unrest in the so...

  • Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap

    Top court reviews free speech case of man's anti-police rap

    Headline Legal News 01/23/2017

    Pennsylvania's highest court is reviewing the conviction of a Pittsburgh man for making threats against police in a rap song after he was charged with drug offenses. The Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up an appeal by Jamal Knox, who argue...

  • Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case

    Ethics measure backers ask high court to let them join case

    Legal Events 01/22/2017

    Supporters of a voter-approved government ethics overhaul are asking the state Supreme Court to allow them to join a lawsuit challenging the initiative filed by Republican lawmakers. South Dakotans for Integrity, a political committee that supported ...

  • Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Supreme Court to hear case about party in vacant DC house

    Headline Legal News 01/21/2017

    The Supreme Court will hear a case in which people arrested for having a party in a vacant house sued police for violating their constitutional rights and won. The justices said Thursday they will review lower court rulings in favor of 16 people who ...

  • Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    Notable Attorneys 01/19/2017

    An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights. The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien ...

  • Aaron Hernandez expected in court as murder trial nears

    Aaron Hernandez expected in court as murder trial nears

    Recent Cases 01/17/2017

    Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez is expected in a Boston courtroom for a pretrial hearing in his upcoming double murder trial. Hernandez is accused of killing two men he encountered at a Boston nightclub in 2012. Prosecutors say the former New England...

  • Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    Court ponders mass murderer Breivik's prison conditions

    National News 01/16/2017

    An appeals court in Norway is considering whether the prison conditions under which mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being held amount to a violation of his human rights. The six-day trial ended Wednesday in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien ...

  • Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court

    Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court

    Legal Events 01/16/2017

    A man suspected of fatally shooting a Florida police officer spoke out of turn and was defiant in an Orlando courtroom where he made an initial appearance on charges of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Forty-one-year-old Markeith Loyd told the jud...

  • High court: Israel must explain lack of access to holy site

    High court: Israel must explain lack of access to holy site

    Legal Issues 01/15/2017

    Israel's Supreme Court has given the government a month to explain why it prevents women from praying from a Torah scroll at a key Jewish holy site. In the court's ruling Wednesday, it also suggested that an alternative site for women to pray at Jeru...

  • Supreme Court delays New Jersey sports betting decision

    Supreme Court delays New Jersey sports betting decision

    Recent Cases 01/15/2017

    The U.S. Supreme Court says it wants to hear more arguments before deciding whether to consider New Jersey's challenge to a federal sports betting ban. The court had been expected to announce a decision Tuesday. Instead, it asked the U.S. solicitor g...