Debra Tate, the sister of Roman Polanski's second wife, actress Sharon Tate, says Polanski is brilliant and a "good guy" and she doesn't think her former brother-in-law can get a fair trial in the United States. ...more

September 30, 2009

two bills that deal with court funding and are now before the Florida Legislature. ...more

March 28, 2009

A teenager who pleaded guilty to mugging a blind man was sentenced today to five years in prison and five years of probation. ...more

March 11, 2009

Poland promised Monday to issue international arrest warrants for Taliban militants after the apparent beheading of a Polish engineer in Pakistan, and officials charged that elements within the Pakistan government share blame for the killing. ...more

February 10, 2009

A jury had to decide on Tuesday whether fear for one's safety justifies leaving the scene of a fatal accident. ...more

February 4, 2009

Cases are piling up in Florida's courts. The prison population is growing. Assault, robbery, burglary and fraud are on the rise. ...more

December 17, 2008

A federal appeals court gave a last-minute reprieve Friday to a Georgia man set to be executed for the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer even though several witnesses have changed their accounts of the crime. ...more

October 25, 2008

The justice system should take the people who have been charged with animal cruelty very seriously and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. ...more

June 4, 2008

I'm sure by now everybody has seen the beating of the Polk County teenage girl on TV or read about it in the newspaper. What is underlying this matter is the blatant disrespect and lack of consequences these and other young people have today in this society. It has to start with the parents and is shared with the school system right up to and including the liberal justice system. ...more

April 10, 2008

Victoria Rupple's case may be the rare one in which the justice system - not the defendant - receives a second chance to get it right. ...more

February 8, 2008