The Sacramento Bee reports: Authorities arrested a 7-Eleven clerk after a man accused of her pocketing his winning lottery ticket worth $555,000, then handing him a $4 “prize” instead. Rajinder […]
ABC News reports: Portage County Judge John Plough had assistant public defender Brian Jones arrested for contempt of court last week after Jones refused to begin a misdemeanor assault trial […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: Citing concerns about terrorism, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that airline passengers lose their right to object to a search after they […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: A federal judge denied motions to dismiss charges against a New York-based law firm, one of its partners and two others accused of keeping a pool […]
The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department trampled on congressional independence when raiding U.S. Rep. William Jefferson’s office last year, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, siding with Congress in […]
The NY Times reports: Tony Taylor, one of the men indicted with Michael Vick last week on federal charges stemming from a suspected dog-fighting ring, pleaded guilty Monday and agreed […]
The San Jose Mercury Press reports: A sharply divided state Supreme Court ruled today that cities can no longer seize automobiles whose drivers are arrested for allegedly buying drugs or […]
The Daily Breeze reports: Cameron Brown, who is accused of throwing his 4-year-old daughter off a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff, will not have famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos or […]
What happens when four federal prisoners: Try to obtain copyrights on their own names, Demand that their warden stop violating their “copyright” by using their names on prison registers, Attempt […]
The Sacramento Bee reports: A diabetic attorney who claimed his judgment was impaired by a hypoglycemic attack was acquitted of smuggling heroin and methamphetamine to his jailed client. John Kolfschoten, […]
The Hollywood Repoter, Esq. reports: A film producer and former partner of Steven Seagal has filed a $10 million defamation suit against the Los Angeles Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter […]
Tomorrow the California Supreme Court will issue its opinion in People v. Black (S126182). Among other issues, the Court will determine whether trial judges or juries should assess the factors […]