Criminal Assault & Battery

Byline: Staff and wire reports New judge in case of manslaughter State District Judge T. Glenn Ellington recused himself from a Rio Arriba County man's vehicular-manslaughter case Monday after the defense showed that...

OUR WEB READERS HAD THE FOLLOWING TO SAY ABOUT SOME OF LAST WEEK'S STORIES: "Police: Suspect in fatal shooting remains at large: Police believe Santa Fe man with criminal past killed teen, injured...

The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: * Edi Alvarado-Perez, 45, 618 Alarid St., was arrested and charged with battery and larceny after he reportedly struck a man in the...

An Illinois federal jury has awarded a $95 million verdict - including $80 million in punitive damages - to a store worker who claimed she was sexually harassed and assaulted by a manager...

It was about 1 p.m. on a Friday afternoon when Cleveland, Ohio sole practitioner David E. Mills realized he had just a few hours to keep a case alive. A colleague told him...

WHEN TIRZAH KEMP WAS ARRESTED in 1999, she was afraid of what she could lose. Taken into custody on first-degree assault charges after a domestic dispute with her then-boyfriend, Kemp, whose son was...

The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: * Someone stole a 1988 white Toyota Camry with tiger decals on both front doors parked in the 500 block of West Zia...

The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports. * Timothy Maes, 22, of Santa Fe was arrested on a charge of reckless driving Saturday after he allegedly was spotted doing wheelies...

The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: * Five vehicles parked at a business in the 2800 block of Cooks Road were burglarized between 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and 5 a.m....

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the existence of probable cause to make an arrest bars a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim. The Court will address a 10th Circuit decision holding that...

A recent Oregon Court of Appeals case highlights the trouble that employers may encounter if they don't deal with issues related to stalking at the workplace. Maria Beauchaton worked as a legal assistant/paralegal...

Byline: Tom Sharpe A lawyer for the Santa Fe police union wants a television reporter to reveal how he got a video of an incident that led to disciplinary actions against four officers....

The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: * Someone stole a television and tools from a home in the 100 block of Victoria Street between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m....

Police violated the Fourth Amendment when they stopped a pedestrian walking along the sidewalk in the area of a reported gang fight, the 1st Circuit has ruled in reversing the denial of a...

A wrongful death lawsuit arising from a police shooting is not barred by the conviction of the victim's companion at the time for assault on an officer, the California Court of Appeal has...

The Pennsylvania State University Board on Thursday unanimously voted to dismiss head football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier, a sociologist, family therapist, author and former Stony Brook University official. Penn...

A defendant's use of anti-Hispanic slurs in connection with an assault could support a conviction for ethnic intimidation, even though the victim's ethnicity may not have been the "primary motive" for the attack,...

A Pennsylvania man finds himself convicted for ethnic intimidation as well as assault after tossing in a few anti-Hispanic slurs in the course of threatening and attacking his employer's daughter. Wednesday, the Pennsylvania...

Sometimes criminal defense attorneys mess up. But just what, if any, constitutional remedy is available to defendants when their attorneys are ineffective at the plea bargaining stage? During oral arguments in the case...