Judge Greg Mathis shares little-known story of how Rev. Jesse Jackson mentored him from jail

“He was a father figure…the most influential person, male in my life,” Mathis told theGrio. Television Judge Greg Mathis is ...
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Gold Derby's guess: Judge Greg Mathis

Judge Greg Mathis is a television judge and former Michigan district court judge best known for his long-running courtroom series Judge Mathis. A Detroit native, he turned his life around after a ...
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'In His Own Home!': Georgia Cop Avoids Prison for Shooting Black Man Who Was Sleeping After Illegal Home Entry, May Walk Away with Sealed Conviction

A Georgia cop who entered a Black man’s home without a warrant, shooting and killing the unarmed man in his bed after startling him awake, […] ...
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

North Little Rock ninth-grader accepts 20-year sentence for role in slaying

A North Little Rock ninth-grader has accepted a 20-year prison sentence for his role in the slaying of a 50-year-old Sherwood ...
The New York Times

Judge Temporarily Blocks Hegseth from Punishing Kelly for Video

Judge Richard J. Leon found that attempts to discipline Mark Kelly for a video that warned against following illegal orders would violate the senator’s First Amendment rights. By Megan Mineiro and ...
PBS

Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon from punishing Sen. Kelly for call to resist unlawful orders

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Thursday to temporarily block the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops ...
The Hill

Judge blocks Hegseth, Pentagon bid to punish Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s efforts to censure Sen. Mark Kelly and lower his retirement rank in the wake of a video in which the Arizona senator and other Democrats called on ...
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Ex-cop spared prison sentence for fatally shooting Black man after entering his home without warrant

A former Georgia cop who entered a Black man’s home without a warrant in 2022 and shot him to death was spared prison time by a judge in February 2026. Russell Mathis, a former DeKalb County police ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Who wants to be a Cook County judge? Not many.

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BBC

Judge blocks US military from demoting Mark Kelly over 'illegal orders' video

A federal judge has blocked Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth from lowering Senator Mark Kelly's rank in the military over his urging service members to refuse illegal orders. US District Judge ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Race for Pulaski County circuit judge position draws 3 hopefuls

EDITOR'S NOTE: Stay up to date with all of our election coverage here. Three candidates are competing to replace retiring Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cathleen "Cathi" Compton in next month's ...