District Attorneys

Mississippi school district agrees to not handcuff students to objects

25 May 2012

(Reuters) - The Jackson, Mississippi, school district has agreed to stop shackling students to fixed objects, after it was sued for handcuffing pupils to railings and poles at a school for troubled children, officials said on Friday. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Jackson Public Schools in 2011 over its treatment of students at the district's Capital City Alternative School. Students at ...

John Edwards trial judge meets with attorneys on 'juror matter'

25 May 2012

The panel is sent home for the Memorial Day weekend after six days of deliberations with no verdict in the campaign finance case. GREENSBORO, N.C. — The federal judge in the John Edwards trial closed her courtroom Friday afternoon to deal with what she called a "juror matter," and then sent the jury home for the Memorial Day weekend with no verdict reached.

John Edwards judge meets with attorneys on 'juror matter'

25 May 2012

The panel is sent home for the Memorial Day weekend after six days of deliberations with no verdict in the campaign finance case. GREENSBORO, N.C. — The federal judge in the John Edwards trial closed her courtroom Friday afternoon to deal with what she called a "juror matter," and then sent the jury home for the Memorial Day weekend with no verdict reached.