State prosecutors have trimmed charges against former Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, but he still could face 30 years in prison for allegedly accepting bribes and improper gifts. Authorities had alleged that Shurtleff dismissed a lawsuit against Bank of America Corp. while negotiating a job with Troutman Sanders, which counts the bank as a client. In the amended counts, his dealings with the bank and law firm are folded into a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct.
JUDGES SEEK PROTECTION
Family court judges in Dallas last week asked for tighter security after an angry litigant attacked police headquarters. After losing custody of his child to his wife, James Boulware opened fire on the building on June 13 and left several pipe bombs in the parking lot before he was killed by police. Family law Judge Drew Ten Eyck, who presided over Boulware’s case, said none of the family law courtrooms has a bailiff. After he ruled in Boulware’s case, “He jumps up and says, ‘I wonder how you sleep at night taking people’s kids.’ And then he said words to the effect of, ‘If I could sue you, I would,’ ” Ten Eyck said. “ He freaked people out in the courtroom. He lit up like a match.”
CARDINALS RETAIN COUNSEL
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