Judge criticized for sentence retires
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A judge who sparked outrage when he sentenced a repeat sex offender to two months in jail said Friday he will retire.
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A âjudgeâs probationâ program shows what can happen when judges with meager training exercise unchecked power.
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The judge who indicted Chile's former dictator on rights charges says pleas of dementia will no longer stick.
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A Tennessee judge resigned last month after making a recording of fantasies so lurid that when the tape fell into the hands of the police and FBI, they thought they were listening to a torture session and believed it might be linked to a murder case.
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An American convicted 10 months ago for murder in Nicaragua is vindicated but not liberated -- and the judge who ordered him free may lose his job
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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The comment came a day after a prosecutor in the court demanded that the judge be removed for showing bias.
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In his first public appearance since submitting his resignation, Attorney General John Ashcroft sharply criticized federal judges Friday for &quot;second guessing&quot; the Bush administration&#39;s decisions on handling prisoners captured in the
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An American convicted 10 months ago for murder in Nicaragua is vindicated but not liberated  -  and the judge who ordered him free may lose his job
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A retiring governor launches a scathing attack on the way the prison service is run.
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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The Lord Chief Justice, the most senior judge in England and Wales, urges greater use of community sentences.
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CHICAGO : The judge overseeing United Airlines&#39; bankruptcy case struck a controversial pension-related brief from the record, in the latest development in the row over United&#39;s underfunded pension plans.
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A judge criticises evidence presented at the trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in Omagh.
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By LUBNA TAKRURI WASHINGTON - A judge had to leave the courtroom with tears running down his face Tuesday after recalling the lost pair of trousers that led to his $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner. Administrative law judge Roy L.
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In a major criminal law decision, a  closely divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that  federal judges no longer must follow the long-criticized  sentencing guidelines in effect since 1987.
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.