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Marion “Suge” Knight was reportedly taken to a jail hospital shortly after he collapsed in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Friday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Just moments before Knight collapses, hitting his head, a judge set his bail at $25 million. Knight is accused of running over Terry Carter, 55, and Cle “Bone” Sloan, 51, […]

Entertainment website TMZ has posted a video that purportedly shows former Death Row CEO Marion “Suge” Knight’s January hit-and-run that left one man dead. The website says the video, made public early Monday, shows Knight’s red truck hitting one of the men, then circling back seconds later to run over the man again before speeding away. […]

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One of the jurors who rendered a guilty verdict in Theodore Wafer’s murder trial has come forward to say that “no one” believed he killed Renisha McBride in self-defense. “I’m surprised the jurors didn’t think he was honest,” said Wafer’s attorney, Cheryl Carpenter. Well, according to the juror, who spoke with the Detroit Free Press, […]

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Thomas Thorpe, 51, appeared before a judge and refused to have a lawyer represent him. “Do you understand what an attorney is and what they do?” asked the judge. “Yes, they screwed us,” Thorpe responded. Thorpe seemed in a hurry as the short hearing progressed, telling the judge he wanted to enter a plea without the assistance of […]

Court trials have become spectacles for the American public. Heroes and villains are made in the media and court trials have a way of dividing America. They serve as entertainment as the public roots for or against defendants. Controversial cases always make for controversial verdicts; and we’ve seen many in the last 20 years. Here’s […]

TAMPA-Reggae star, Buju Banton has been found guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and attempted possession with the intent to distribute cocaine. RELATED: 25 reasons we love “Love Jones” Top 9 Black reality TV professionals The Huffington Post reports: Banton was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to […]

CLEARWATER– Donald O’Leary, 67, has taken his share of lumps in 40 years as a practicing lawyer, but nothing like what happened in a Pinellas courtroom this morning.

An appeals court has overturned the murder conviction of an Ohio woman, China Arnold, accused of cooking her baby daughter in a microwave oven.

JACKSON, Miss. – A Mississippi judge jailed a lawyer for several hours for refusing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, ordering the attorney to “purge himself” of contempt by standing and repeating the oath like the rest of the courtroom. After Oxford attorney Danny Lampley spent about five hours in the county jail Wednesday, Chancery […]

The Pittsburgh Gazzette is reporting on a case of a An Allegheny County judge who rejected a plea deal from a defendant and the District Attorney, given that he saw it as racially biased. Common Pleas Judge Joseph K. Williams, who is black, rejected a deal to allow a white defendant — Jeffery McGowan, 24, […]

The ex-fiance of rapper Shawty Lo was arrested Wednesday after police say she attempted to bring loaded weapons into a Atlanta courthouse.