Courts & Judiciary

3+ hour, 1+ min ago   (258+ words) MANCHESTER, N.H. — More than two years after a jury found Adam Montgomery guilty of murdering his 5-year-old daughter Harmony, the state of New Hampshire is preparing to try him again after his murder conviction was overturned. Attorneys deliberated at Hillsborough County…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (1127+ words) Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The Colorado Supreme Court has suspended a judge as his misconduct investigation unfolds, plus a former state DNA analyst has been criminally sentenced for her…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (381+ words) The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees is planning to propose adding President Donald Trump’s name to the facility’s exterior in recognition of his saving the building from its “precarious fiscal position,” according to a new court filing in a suit…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago   (663+ words) The state's Department of Law announced the decision Friday, after a three-judge Court of Appeals panel ruled a week earlier that state law requires proof that defendants who erroneously filled out voter registration forms had a "consciousness of wrongdoing" and…...

8+ min ago   (421+ words) Ghana Bar Association President Efua Ghartey has warned members of the judiciary against allowing the Executive to influence their work, saying judicial officers must remain within the constitutional boundaries of their calling. Ghartey raised concern over what she described as…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago   (235+ words) A British man has admitted to drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge for a period of more than two decades. The man pleaded guilty to dozens of offenses in a court in Manchester, northern England, on Monday – including…...

47+ min ago   (176+ words) HENDERSON COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The District Attorney for Henderson, Transylvania and Polk Counties said a Henderson County jury found a North Carolina man guilty on 12 counts of child sex crimes. The district attorney said 46-year-old Christopher Raymond Smith, of Pisgah…...

3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (325+ words) The High Court has ordered police to verify the authenticity of any arrest warrant against their central data management system before executing it, in a bid to curb arrests and harassment through fake warrants, reports bdnews24.com.The court also directed…...

1+ hour, 34+ min ago   (120+ words) A southeastern New Brunswick man avoided jail time after being found guilty of threatening and assaulting an N.B. Power contractor who was installing smart meters last year. Ronald Arsenault, 54, of Cap-Pelé received a 12-month probation and a conditional discharge. No jail…...

12+ min ago   (1021+ words) An Afghan national accused of supporting her family's plans for an ISIS-inspired mass shooting on Election Day 2024 has been deported in the first case ever brought before a specialized federal court created three decades ago to remove noncitizens tied to…...