By Katheryn Tucker | May 8, 2018
“Doctors heal the body. Ministers heal the soul. Lawyers heal the community,” says Justice Robert Benham “We heal the community through dispute resolution and problem solving.”
By R. Robin McDonald | May 7, 2018
Three Georgia Court of Appeals judges, including the chief, joined with six state Supreme Court justices in a case asking them to reverse their appellate colleagues and restore immunity to the former chief judge of DeKalb County's problematic—and defunct—Recorders Court.
By Katheryn Tucker | May 7, 2018
The bill directs judges to offer alternatives to money bail for misdemeanor offenses, although it doesn't ban it altogether as some jurisdictions, such as the city of Atlanta, have done in the past year.
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By Max Mitchell | May 7, 2018
The motion said Judge Genece Brinkley was disqualified from handling Meek Mill's case, and that the rapper is not being treated the same as other defendants.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | May 7, 2018
A decision on whether to retry Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel in the murder of his 15-year-old neighbor in 1975 is now in the state's hands, after the high court vacated Skakel's murder conviction late May 4.
By Jenna Greene | May 7, 2018
As the saying goes, if your lawyer has a pulse, it's not ineffective assistance of counsel. Unless you're Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who just had his conviction for murdering Martha Moxley in 1975 overturned.
Connecticut Law Tribune | News
By Robert Storace | May 4, 2018
The divided court ordered a new trial in the case that garnered national and international attention.
By Charles Toutant | May 4, 2018
The study was prompted by the discovery that a state police sergeant performed calibrations of Alcotest devices over the course of seven years with a thermometer that was not the NIST-traceable type specified in "State v. Chun."
By Ross Todd | May 4, 2018
The Third District Court of Appeal in California tossed a criminal conviction in a case where a prosecutor used peremptory strikes on two gay jurors claiming that they'd be biased against a witness—a closeted gay man.
By Katheryn Tucker | May 4, 2018
Here's how a settlement came about in the "ground zero" lawsuit that launched a national conversation about sexual abuse of children in training for Olympic sports.
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