INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Public Defender Council weighed in with the Indiana Supreme Court on Special Judge Frances Gull’s dismissal of public defenders for Richard Allen, the suspect in the 2017 Delphi killings of Libby German and Abby Williams. The Indiana Public Defender Council’s brief filed Thursday with the Indiana […] Read More
Durham County District attorney Satana Deberry is running for North Carolina attorney general, challenging Rep. Jeff Jackson in the March Democratic primary. Deberry’s candidacy is the first significant opposition to Jackson, who announced last month he was running after GOP lawmakers redrew his congressional district in Mecklenburg and Gaston counties […] Read More
Mississippi attorney General Lynn Fitch has asked the state Supreme Court court to set execution dates for two men on death row.Fitch’s office filed motions Thursday that asked the court to schedule executions for Willie Jerome Manning and Robert Simon Jr.Manning, now 55, was convicted in 1994 on two counts […] Read More
Attorneys for Arizona’s most prominent election deniers have been dealt tens of thousands of dollars in sanctions – monetary punishments – for flouting facts. Michigan lawyers got hit with some for filing a baseless lawsuit. Colorado attorneys relied on inflammatory language instead of investigating, resulting in sanctions. In courtrooms across […] Read More
Trust. It’s an important word to Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman, L’02. He wants the city’s police department to have the trust of residents because of what he believes is a new culture in the department. And he wants to work with the community as a whole in a trusting […] Read More
By Kaveh Nasseri PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia resident David Sparks, convicted in 2008 of a murder for which he is most likely innocent, has been released from prison in light of new information surrounding the case, according to a statement this week by the District attorney’s Office. The announcement comes […] Read More
Jon C. Poulson, long-time Eastern Shore trial attorney and former three-term Accomack Commonwealth’s attorney, departed this earthly life on November 5, 2023. According to his death notice posted on the Cooper and Humbles website, Jon attended the public schools of Accomack County, graduating from former Atlantic High School in 1961. […] Read More
ROCHESTER — Evidence that a local deputy may have committed a crime was disregarded by the Rochester Police Department last year because the witness had been deemed unreliable by both the department and the Olmsted County attorney‘s Office. A law enforcement investigation this month found the same deputy allegedly still […] Read More
MILWAUKEE — An honor system. That’s how the City attorney’s Office operates in terms of filing timecards, according to Tearman Spencer. However, that system is being called into question by a 57-page report filed by the City’s Inspector General, Ronda Kohlheim. Her report says Deputy City attorney Odalo Ohiku was […] Read More
Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes MERIDIAN, Idaho — Chad Daybell’s attorneys on Thursday asked Idaho to take the death penalty off the table in his case, arguing that Lori Vallow Daybell was considered more “culpable” but the state withheld the death penalty as a possible sentence in her case. Daybell […] Read More
