IMPERIAL COUNTY — The Imperial County District Attorney’s Office has expanded its efforts to recruit and train new prosecutors, welcoming five recent law school graduates into its summer post-bar program while hiring four new paralegals.
New Hampshire state law gives convicted prisoners three years to request a new trial. After that, they lose the right. With a narrow exception for DNA forensics, that’s true even if new evidence contradicting their guilt emerges. If someone else confesses to the crime after three years, they can’t request a new trial. If previously […]
A Yellowstone County judge sentenced a man to 80 years in prison for beating a 62-year-old amputee, tying him up, torching his trailer then leaving him to burn to death.
United States Western District of Virginia Judge Robert Ballou Friday ruled against a cohort of Virginia hemp businesses, denying their motions for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to prevent new hemp restrictions from taking place.
Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Roger Johnson has responded to UM System President Mun Choi's concerns about gun violence in the city.
Democratic attorney general candidate Joe Solomon Jr. has released his campaign’s first television ad as part of a six-figure shopping spree across broadcast television, cable and digital platforms. The 30-second spot “Safer” launches a week before early voting begins for the Sept. 9 primary and makes Solomon the last of the four Democrats in the […]
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An alleged fentanyl dealer in East Grand Forks is getting a new trial after prosecutors botched their instructions to the jury that convicted him. Polk County Attorney Greg Widseth “plainly erred by misstating the law” governing drug conspiracies, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled last month. To obtain the first-degree conspiracy conviction he sought, he needed […]
Advocates and lawmakers in Oregon have introduced bills to allow judges to reduce a sentence based on how coercion and abuse played a role in the crime these laws in three legislative sessions, but political opposition stopped them from moving forward.
(The Center Square) – Fraud in three North Carolina cases costing taxpayers about $27 million are among 17 getting enforcement action from the National Fraud Enforcement Division, the U.S. Justice Department said Friday.
