Via: Foxbaltimore.com Edwards is charged with six criminal counts including conspiracy to violate the Federal Election Campaign Act, accepting contributions that exceeded campaign finance limits, and causing his campaign to file a false financial disclosure report. He faces up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines if convicted of all charges. At […]
An appeals court has overturned the murder conviction of an Ohio woman, China Arnold, accused of cooking her baby daughter in a microwave oven.
The Pittsburgh Gazzette is reporting on a case of a An Allegheny County judge who rejected a plea deal from a defendant and the District Attorney, given that he saw it as racially biased. Common Pleas Judge Joseph K. Williams, who is black, rejected a deal to allow a white defendant — Jeffery McGowan, 24, […]
Juanita Kidd Stout was name by the Governor to serve as a Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge on this date in 1959.Later that year Stout won the election judge in the United States. ********************************************************** Juanita Kidd Stout aspired to be a lawyer when few African Americans and few women were in the profession. When Stout was […]
A judge removed a juror from a trial in suburban Detroit after the young woman wrote on Facebook that the defendant was guilty. The problem? The trial wasn’t over.
