(Chicago Sun Times) — Last January, Illinois changed from 17 to 18 the age when a person is old enough to be tried as an adult in court for misdemeanor crimes. Although the change is barely a year old, its impact already has been felt. In Kane County, nine months under the new law, 17-year-olds […]
(Wall Street Journal) — Glynis Martin, a 56-year-old New York social worker, started struggling to keep up with her credit-card bills about five years ago as the mortgage on her Bronx apartment ate up most of her paycheck. Pretty soon debt-collection calls became routine for her, and in January, Midland Funding LLC sued Ms. Martin […]
(NYT) — The 16-year-old defendant seemed annoyed and a bit confused. Seated in the witness box in a courthouse in Staten Island, her answers were curt and short on detail. The inquiry into her crime — stealing a shirt in April at the Staten Island Mall — had just begun. Could she describe what happened? […]
(AJC) — Georgia’s top court on Monday began accepting electronic filings of legal briefs, instead of requiring lawyers to submit paper documents. The Georgia Supreme Court’s new “e-filing” system should be a “win-win situation” for the court and its litigants, Chief Justice Carol Hunstein said. Parties can save time and money by no longer having […]