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Court officials across the country say a low turnout of people summoned to jury duty is derailing plans to restart trials for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began

With scores of disciplinary records already online, a federal judge on Friday said she is lifting a temporary restraining order that had barred New York City’s police watchdog agency, police department and other entities from making such information public. Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s ruling, a blow to public safety unions seeking a way around a new state transparency law,...

I-Team chief investigative reporter Jonathan Dienst reports on what it is like inside a federal court during the pandemic.

A New York City man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the beating death of his girlfriend outside her Pennsylvania home more than three years ago. Edia Lawrence, 21, was convicted in March of second-degree murder, robbery, burglary and related crimes in the March 2017 death of 19-year-old Ahshantianna Johnson in Mount Wolf. During…

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new measures to hold NYPD accountable and for more transparency. Tracie Strahan reports.

Legal documents, which include the names of domestic violence victims and children caught in custody battles, have been left unmonitored in open boxes for weeks inside the lobby of the San Francisco Superior Courthouse, despite state laws that require the court to keep such information private.

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an aspiring actress.

A New York jury found former Hollywood studio boss Harvey Weinstein guilty of third-degree rape in the case of Jessica Mann and guilty of first-degree criminal sexual assault in the case of Mimi Haleyi, acquitting him of the two most serious counts of predatory sex assault. Those two counts of predatory sex assault, which carried a max sentence of life…

A New York jury has found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and criminal sexual act in his court case; he was acquitted of the most serious charges.

The defense team for Harvey Weinstein rested without ever calling the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul to the witness stand, saying it was not necessary despite him wanting to testify. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A 21-year-old New Jersey man was arrested Thursday for bribing a U.S. Postal Service employee to steal check books, credit cards and electronics from the mail, federal prosecutors say. Jabre Beauvoir, 21, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is charged by complaint with one count of bribery and one count of receiving stolen mail, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced. The bribery...

A judge whose ethics were called into question after he jailed a woman he accused of being disrespectful in court will avoid being suspended from the bench. New Jersey’s Supreme Court issued a public censure Thursday of Newark Municipal Court Judge Marvin Adames. A state panel on judicial conduct had recommended last year that Adames be suspended without pay...

Jury selection resumed Monday at the trial of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has pleaded not guilty to charges he raped a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and sexually assaulted another in 2006. The initial screening process, now on its fifth day, has been stymied by a host of challenges and distractions, including repeatedly denied requests from…

The new attorney for a pawn shop operator whose number was found in the pocket of one of two attackers who killed four people in Jersey City said Tuesday his client deserves to be freed on bail on a weapons charge. Ahmed A-Hady has been jailed since his arrest several days after the Dec. 10 shootings. He is charged with…

A state commission said Monday that a New York judge should be censured for inappropriate behavior, including a derogatory remark made in court while he was acting as a defense attorney.

A man convicted in the shooting of a 5-year-old girl who was struck and injured by a stray bullet while walking home from a Fourth of July fireworks show is now headed to federal prison. Jamar Battle was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison and will also have to serve three years of supervised release once he’s freed….

The man charged with murdering a woman missing since September had several outbursts directed at the judge and at prosecutors during a hearing on Thursday. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

Ahmed A-Hady, 35, was arrested Saturday morning and faces one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said in a statement. Anjali Hemphill reports.

An employee at a Connecticut supermarket has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for his role in a food stamp scheme that brought in millions. Muhammad Shahbaz, of Jersey City, New Jersey, accepted a deal with federal prosecutors for food stamp fraud and agreed to repay $1.5 million in restitution Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant…