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Justices heard last month from a Muslim woman who sued [a judge] because her small claims case was dismissed when she refused to remove her veil.
Hamtramck District Judge Paul Paruk told Ginnnah Muhammad he needed to see her face to judge her truthfulness. The 45-year-old from Detroit kept her niqab on during the 2006 hearing.
Indeed. And as Ms. Buchanan spectacularly failed to prove Dr. Wecht’s guilt, that last insinuation of guilt was inappropriate. It is time for Ms. Buchanan to take responsibility for her failure and resign before President Barack Obama asks for her resignation, which he could not now be blamed for doing.
Prosecutors say a former Georgia college student was a budding terrorist who took choppy videos of potential targets in Washington, D.C., and desperately tried to prove himself to terror groups overseas.
A man suspected of fatally shooting abortion doctor George Tiller in church was in jail Monday while investigators sought to learn more about his background, including his possible connections to anti-abortion groups.
An Arizona inmate who died after spending nearly four hours in the desert heat was left in an outdoor holding cell for twice as long as she should have been, the state prisons director said Wednesday.
President Obama’s proposal for a new legal system in which terrorism suspects could be held in “prolonged detention” inside the US without trial would be a departure from a place where people in the grip of the government face criminal charges or wal
You may recall my post regarding the Boston College Police's outrageous seizure of a computer science student's computer and other devices because, well, he knew about computer science. The Electronic Frontier Foundation took on
It would hardly be difficult to convict any man of child sex abuse if the prosecutor were provided with the following advantages:
U.S. District Judge Arthur Spatt has no clue how the news industry works or the 1st Amendment. The judge found it “troubling” that Newsday published photos of NY legislator Roger Corbin being led away in handcuffs after he was arrested on tax evasion
Doe says he hasn’t eaten solid food since he’s been behind bars because he’s on a hunger strike. When he came to jail he weighed 180 pounds, and now he weighs 116, he says.
Guantanamo Bay is no place to be unless you are a federal employee or a guy like former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who likes to stand 8 hours per day. But some of the kidnapped will soon be released, and you may get a chance to meet one.
After 2 years of attempting to get the computer based source code for the Alcotest 7110 MKIII-C, defense counsel in State v. Chun were successful in obtaining the code, and had it analyzed by Base One Technologies. [very cool]
[just another swell Bush idea I want to expand] President Barack Obama is to announce this week that he is reviving controversial military trials for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, US officials said.
A man arrested for failing to appear for jury duty was released after spending 83 days in jail, a length of detention that a judge called "unacceptable." Douglas Maupin was released after Dallas Morning News brought his plight to the attent
A disgraced federal judge was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison for lying to investigators about sexually abusing 2 female employees, who said they feared him so much they hid from him in the courthouse.
5 men were convicted of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in hopes of igniting an anti-government insurrection. The jury in Miami acquitted another member of the so-called "Liberty Ci
"I don't believe in your "justice" system and I don't want to have a goddamn thing to do with it."
Federal prosecutors dismissed charges Friday against one of the Big Dig's largest contractors in connection with a tunnel collapse that killed a Boston woman, but the company pleaded guilty to lying about construction defects in another tunnel.
Those police in the courtroom that you thought were there to handle the unruly...are actually now hired to work as spies for the judge. Be careful what you say, they may be eavesdropping and will giddily pass this information on to the judge to be us
"We have prepared for this possibility and we will have new policies in place beginning tomorrow morning," the prosecutor said. "I will personally be in the courtrooms making sure that our aggressiveness at bail hearings is just as str
CLEVELAND – A federal appeals court opened the way again Friday for the Justice Department to deport alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk to Germany to face 29,000 counts of accessory to murder.
Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court, giving President Barack Obama his first chance to fill a vacancy on the high court.
Al-Marri's attorneys said their client, a married father of five from Qatar, chose to plead guilty to avoid the risk, if found guilty, of spending 30 years in prison. "We thought (the plea) was the right approach to take based on the evidenc
Federal jurors are set to begin deliberations in the third terrorism trial of a group of inner-city Miami men accused of collaborating with al Qaeda. The defendants, dubbed the Liberty City 6, were arrested for conspiring with the global terro
