Donald James Smith is back in court in Jacksonville trying to get his sentence vacated. The sex offender kidnapped 8-year-old ...

A federal judge last month rejected an incarcerated plaintiff's request for a new civil trial in his constitutional rights ...

To the justice system. It ain’t perfect. But it’s the best we got,” so proclaims a defense attorney in Clint Eastwood’s ...

Warner Bros.' tepid release rollout be damned, Clint Eastwood's latest film deserves a long, rich release at the cineplex.

The Ohio Supreme Court, splitting 4-3 along partisan lines, sided Tuesday with the state’s Republican secretary of state, Frank LaRose, who issued a rule in August that said voting drop boxes ...

Here are updates on court cases previously covered by the Herald-Leader. A 20-year-old Lexington man charged with murder will go to trial again after his first trial ended in a hung jury earlier ...

After last week's two-day trial, a jury found Bobby Jimenez, Jr., 52, guilty of one count of second-degree assault. His bond was revoked by presiding Cowlitz Superior Court Judge Patricia Fassett ...

With just one week until Election Day, 2News investigated the safety measures in place to protect ballot boxes in Utah. In Utah, state law requires video surveillance of all unmanned ballot drop ...

An "incendiary device" placed inside a ballot box sparked a fire early Monday in Portland, Oregon, police say. The Portland Police Bureau said officers responded "to reports of a fire at a ballot ...

Nicholas Hoult plays a guilty man tapped to judge someone else for his own mistake in Eastwood's unlikely yet engaging courtroom drama. If you think jury duty’s a drag, consider how much worse ...

If you think jury duty’s a drag ... But the director does not appear in “Juror No. 2,” a moral-minded courtroom drama in which Nicholas Hoult plays the lone holdout in a murder trial.

After roughly an hour of tell-tale dialogue designed to trigger Justin’s guilt, Abrams’ script plays a trick toward the end, skipping over the jury’s final vote so as to surprise us when the verdict ...