Seattle judge refuses to step aside. ‘Correct your errors,’ he tells critics A Seattle judge accused of judicial misconduct by the city attorney and King County's head of public defense says the statements made by his accusers are false. Sydney Brownstone
Judge Is Open To Releasing Man Prosecutors Have Called 'Domestic Terrorist' The judge notes the only charges against Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson involve drug and weapons violations and says he should be released pending trial with "a whole lot of supervision." Greg Myre
FBI And IRS Raid Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's Home And Offices At City Hall Pugh is being investigated after receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for a self-published children's book from private companies that were subject to her influence. Bill Chappell
Parkland Shooter's Public Defenders Seek To Withdraw Because Cruz Will Inherit Money A parent's life insurance policy will mean a more than $400,000 payout for Nikolas Cruz. The public defender's office can only represent people who can't afford representation on their own. Matthew S. Schwartz
Gun owners, please sue over personal data in bump stock buyback, State Patrol says The Washington State Patrol faces lawsuits over its potential disclosure of personal data of gun owners involved in a bump stock buyback program. Amy Radil
NRA Sues Over LA Law Requiring Contractors To Disclose Ties To The Gun Rights Group Los Angeles wants to know whether city contractors also do business with the NRA. An attorney for the gun rights group calls it "McCarthyism." Richard Gonzales
Seattle head judge asked to step aside in damning letter from city prosecutors and public defenders In a rare show of agreement, both Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes and Anita Khandelwal, director of the King County Department of Defense, are asking Seattle Municipal Court Presiding Judge Ed McKenna to step down. Sydney Brownstone
5 ways to reform youth justice in King County, according to this retiring judge J. Wesley St. Clair has been a prosecutor, a defense attorney and a judge. He last eight on the bench were in juvenile court where he recently retired. Patricia Murphy
Facebook Recruits Surveillance Hawk to Be Its Top Lawyer Facebook's new top lawyer is tasked with guiding the firm through increasingly treacherous legal woes. She was one of the lawyers responsible for moving the controversial Patriot Act through Congress. Aarti Shahani
Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules 'Tire Chalking' Unconstitutional NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Anne Gentry, director of the Downtown Development Authority for Alpena, Mich., about a court ruling that parking enforcement by tire chalking is unconstitutional.