The clerk of the circuit court may have the most responsibility of any elected official. The office is responsible for filing and recording official documents and court records, as well as conducting audits, managing the jury system, providing courtroom clerks, storing evidence, collecting fines and investing county funds, to name just a few duties. ...more

August 5, 2008

When Kevin Shelden sat as a juror on a recent murder case, he had questions he would have liked to ask the witnesses. ...more

January 4, 2008

One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen "when a big black guy beats up on a small woman." ...more

January 4, 2008

O.J. Simpson must face trial on kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges stemming from a suspected sports memorabilia heist, a justice of the peace ruled Wednesday. ...more

November 15, 2007

A local jury provided that "wow" verdict and let David A. Will out of jail after finding him not guilty of shooting his wife. No one disputed that the gun he fired hit her in the arm, shattering the bone, which required surgery. No one disputed that he fired the gun because she was going to call authorities for spousal abuse. ...more

October 18, 2007