The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with the case of Patrick Daley Thompson, a former Chicago alderman and member of Chicago’s most storied political dynasty. Thompson served four months in a ...

Jurors started deliberating at the public corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan in Chicago. Judge John Robert Blakey handed the case to the jury shortly after 3 p.m.

His lawyers argue that Black representation in the jury would ensure a fair trial ... counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. The charges stem from a 2021 incident where he allegedly ...

For example, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, known as “Dr. Death,” admitted that he helped multiple people die by suicide, yet he was acquitted three times by a jury on charges of assisted suicide.

Former Oakland, California, Mayor Sheng Thao, who was recalled by voters in November, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on corruption charges ... to help them. "Examples of promises ...

For example, at the state level ... not supposed to be rowing in the same direction.” The grand jury did not pursue criminal charges, in part, because it did not uncover activities involving ...

Curiously, for example, the grand jury seems to have concluded that federal ... task of searching for vaccine-related criminal charges to levy, demonstrated. The report also seemed determine ...

A New Jersey judge on Wednesday quizzed state prosecutors about their racketeering case against George E. Norcross III, ...

A New Jersey judge on Wednesday quizzed state prosecutors about their racketeering case against George E. Norcross III, asking why the Democratic power broker's alleged threats against a developer ...

Jury selection began Monday in the federal trial ... The other four await sentencing. Among many other examples of crimes the indictment attributes to the broader cohort, Alfred Atsus, Boland ...