Prosecutors

Grand jury will investigate 1983 death of pro wrestler’s girlfriend

A Pennsylvania grand jury will investigate a 30-year-old cold case involving the death of former World Wrestling Entertainment superstar Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka’s girlfriend. According to the Allentown Morning Call, Lehigh County district attorney Jim Martin announced on Tuesday that he had empaneled a grand jury to look into the 1983…

Jan 29, 2014 7:21 PM CST

No immunity for prosecutor accused of misconduct

Hollywood couldn’t come up with a better script than this. A gang member was convicted in 1986 of double murder by two prosecutors who are now accused of coercing witnesses into giving false testimony against him; and he was sentenced to death by a judge who had taken a bribe…

Jan 28, 2014 10:00 PM CST

Judges at odds with county attorney say he told assistant prosecutors to seek election to their jobs

Several judges at odds with a Kentucky prosecutor say he recruited assistant prosecutors in his office to seek election to their seats on the bench. There’s no dispute that Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell adopted a new policy allowing prosecutors to run for judicial office without giving up their current…

Jan 24, 2014 7:40 PM CST

Inmate is convicted in plot to behead federal judge and prosecutor

A New York man who pleaded guilty in a scheme to sell overvalued coins has been convicted for plotting to behead the federal judge and lead prosecutor who put him behind bars. Jurors convicted Joseph Romano on Thursday for seeking the murders of U.S. District Judge Joseph Bianco and Assistant…

Jan 24, 2014 1:10 PM CST

High-profile Florida prosecutor bashes the media, says she doesn’t read newspapers

The high-profile Florida state attorney who prosecuted George Zimmerman says she doesn’t read newspapers because “my people tell me what I need to know.” State Attorney Angela Corey expressed her views at a luncheon in Jacksonville last week, the Florida Times-Union reports. Despite shunning newspapers, Corey had an opinion on…

Jan 23, 2014 12:20 PM CST

Judge subpoenas sheriff to explain why assistant DA jailed for violating gag order was released

An assistant prosecutor who acts as a spokesman for the New Orleans district attorney’s office was sent to jail for 24 hours Thursday afternoon by a judge who found him in contempt of a gag order for speaking to the media about a murder case. But Assistant Orleans Parish DA…

Jan 17, 2014 10:34 PM CST

Gibson Dunn to represent NJ Gov. Chris Christie’s office amidst ongoing probe of traffic jam scandal

A former federal prosecutor who co-chairs the litigation practice group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher will be representing the office of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie amidst ongoing investigation of its role in the so-called Bridgegate traffic jam scandal. At issue is to what extent the office was involved in…

Jan 16, 2014 6:05 PM CST

Now-vindicated woman charged with making a false rape report wins $150K settlement

A woman who says she was pressured by police and social workers to recant her truthful report that she was bound, gagged, raped and photographed by a stranger in her transitional housing apartment when she was 18 years old has won a $150,000 settlement from a city in Washington state.…

Jan 15, 2014 10:25 PM CST

How Chris Christie dealt with a blogging prosecutor

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. L.E.MORMILE / Shutterstock.com Above the Law founder David Lat once wrote for a different blog he created called Underneath Their Robes. Lat wrote under a pseudonym on his blog about federal judges because he worked as a prosecutor. His boss was Chris Christie. When Lat…

Jan 14, 2014 12:47 PM CST

Petition calls for prosecutor to drop charges against bullied transgendered teen

A California prosecutor is taking a lot of heat for his decision to charge a bullied transgendered teen with battery. Jewlyes Gutierrez, 16, was charged with battery after a fight with classmates in November at Hercules High School in Contra Costa County, the Contra Costa Times reports. Gutierrez, who says…

Jan 10, 2014 7:30 PM CST

Did inmate really plot to kill a federal judge and prosecutor, or was it just ‘tough talk’?

An imprisoned con man didn’t really mean it when he allegedly talked with fellow inmates in 2012 about killing a federal judge and prosecutor in a gruesome manner, his lawyer told jurors on Thursday as he outlined an entrapment defense. Joseph Romano, 50, resorted to “tough talk” to protect himself…

Jan 9, 2014 8:50 PM CST

Top state court mulls proposal to let law students handle pro bono cases, seeks comments

In an effort to provide more pro bono services to those who can’t afford a lawyer, Iowa Legal Aid and the Office of Professional Regulation have asked the state’s top court to consider allowing recent law graduates and law students who have completed three semesters to handle some cases. They…

Jan 8, 2014 9:30 PM CST

State AG joins prosecutors’ call for SC supreme court justice to be recused from criminal cases

South Carolina’s attorney general says he will ask a state supreme court justice to recuse himself from criminal cases, after the justice told a group of prosecutors in a speech that they had “been getting away with too much for too long,” and said that unethical prosecutors would be held…

Dec 20, 2013 11:49 PM CST

Convicted rapist sentenced to 75-100 years threatens judge, prosecutor in courtroom

Convicted rapist Bryan Preston Farmer had a few choice words for the judge and the prosecutor at his sentencing Wednesday. Farmer, 50, called the judge a “biased bitch,” and said he would “send someone to see” her and the prosecutor, the Lansing State Journal reports. He was sentenced to 75…

Dec 19, 2013 9:22 PM CST

Ill-timed tweets by prosecutor don’t merit reversal, appeals court says

A prosecutor’s tweets during the trial of an accused child rapist may have been ill-timed, but there is no evidence jurors were aware of them and no need to overturn the conviction, a Missouri appeals court has ruled. The court ruled in the case of David Polk, who was charged…

Dec 19, 2013 3:37 PM CST