ATLANTA, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A jury in Atlanta heard victim impact statements Thursday from relatives and friends of those gunned down by convicted courthouse killer Brian Nichols.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Lawyers for a serial killer facing execution later this month in Washington state have asked for a stay to allow time for a new appeal.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- A judge Friday set a Sept. 19 execution date for Robert Yates, the convicted serial killer of 15 women in Washington state.
ATLANTA, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Superior Court Judge James Bodiford has sentenced a prospective juror to 10 days in jail after she admitted lying about being late for jury duty.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- California state workers will receive their full pay this month because a judge will not immediately consider a lawsuit to force the controller to cut pay.
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- A judge in Orange County, Calif., has temporarily stopped a measure aimed at stopping people from stripping down to their birthday suits at an area beach.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A California judge rejected a lawsuit Friday that challenged the wording of a November ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriages in the Golden State.
BELLINGHAM, Wash., July 1 (UPI) -- A judge has ordered the Washington state Department of Social and Health Services to settle a suit over foster care within 30 days.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26 (UPI) -- A California judge has been ordered removed from the bench for filing false and misleading expense reimbursement requests for a legal conference in San Diego.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 12 (UPI) -- A Superior Court judge in Rhode Island has ruled that she does not have the power to grant a divorce to two women who married in Massachusetts.
SAN DIEGO, April 29 (UPI) -- A San Diego court has apologized for ejecting two prospective jurors who refused to remove their Hells Angels motorcycle club vests.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 25 (UPI) -- A Santa Cruz County, Calif., judge has ordered the state to stop spraying for light brown apple moths while an environmental impact review is performed.
WASHINGTON, April 14 (UPI) -- Judge Bruce Selya has been named the presiding judge over the secretive U.S. court that hears appeals of wiretaps of suspected spies and terrorists.
TRENTON, N.J., Jan. 31 (UPI) -- New Jersey residents who have already voted by absentee ballot for candidates who dropped out should get another chance to vote, a judge ruled Thursday.
ATLANTA, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The judge presiding in the case of a courthouse shooting spree in Atlanta resigned Wednesday over potentially pejorative comments in a published interview.
