Judge Pratt said she drew inspiration from a variety of people, but cited her father, the late defense and civil rights attorney Charles A. Walton, as her first great mentor. “I knew very early on I wanted to be like my dad. I wanted to be a lawyer,” she said.
The judge responded to a jury request by rereading 30 pages of jury instructions. The 12-person jury, which deliberated for about 4 1/2 hours Wednesday without reaching a verdict, also reheard testimony Thursday morning from a tabloid publisher and Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer.
The lawsuit comes almost a year after the state Supreme Court upheld the ban but left the door open for Hoosiers to sue over specific parts of the law.
Brian Metcalf, who served as CEO of Indianapolis-based Tindley Accelerated Schools from July 2019 to December 2022, was charged with nine counts of wire fraud.
The charge comes after a lawsuit alleged Julious Johnican allowed and encouraged students to attack their 7-year-old classmate.
Cybercriminals used Yunhe Wang’s network of zombie residential computers to steal “billions of dollars from financial institutions, credit card issuers and accountholders, and federal lending programs since 2014,” according to an indictment.
In letters to members of Congress on Wednesday, Justice Samuel Alito said his wife was responsible for flying an upside-down flag over his home in 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house last year. Neither incident merits his recusal, he wrote.
The Indiana Supreme Court granted the transfer of four cases last week that separately involve an adult theater, a pedestrian accident, a development dispute and the expungement of a police officer’s arrest.
For journalists, it raises a question: Should a public official’s family be held to the same standards as that official themselves?
The man sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for bludgeoning Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer inside their San Francisco home returned to a courtroom Wednesday to face state charges, including attempted murder.
The jury of seven men and five women was sent to a private room just before 11:30 a.m. to begin weighing a verdict in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.
The new records made available by Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office show only a few expenses directly related to his disciplinary case. Even so, the documents indicate more than $100,000 was spent in the weeks surrounding Dr. Caitlin Bernard’s case before the Indiana Medical Licensing Board.
Scholarships are not going away in college athletics, but how many there are and which sports they will apply to in coming years are among the many questions stemming from a mammoth antitrust settlement and athlete revenue-sharing plan proposed by the Indianapolis-based NCAA and its five largest conferences.
Last year, Idaho became the first state to enact the so-called ” abortion trafficking” law, but a federal judge has since temporarily blocked the law after reproductive rights groups sued to challenge it.
An Indianapolis woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.
In its order, the court changed Bloomington attorney Joseph Kelley’s suspension to an indefinite one following his failure to cooperate with the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission.
Indiana State Police are investigating the death of a 23-year-old inmate at the Miami Correctional Facility on Tuesday morning.
It was a sharp about-face for Biden’s team, which had largely ignored the trial since it began six weeks ago and is now looking to capitalize on its drama-filled closing moments, sending the “Goodfellas” actor and the first responders who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
The arguments lasted the entire day and gave attorneys one last chance to address the Manhattan jury and to score final points with the panel before it starts deliberating former President Donald Trump’s fate.
The justices did not comment in rejecting an appeal from Avenatti, who rose to fame representing porn actor Stormy Daniels in litigation against former President Donald Trump.