Mobile and Baldwin County News
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Legal sources said Mobile County Commissioner Steve Nodine would almost certainly leave office rather than testify in an impeachment case while a possible murder charge hung over him.
Thirty years after Katherine Foster was shot on the University of South Alabama campus, jurors were seated in the murder trial of Jamie Letson, whose handwritten letter of amends may…
In a single day, Mobile County Commissioner Stephen Nodine left a psychiatric ward, was impeached by a grand jury, was named the sole suspect in a murder investigation and was…
The Mobile City Council selected assistant city attorney Carol Little, a Vanderbilt graduate and Howard University law alumna, to fill the part-time judgeship covering the Metro Jail docket.
Security officers at the Mobile County Courthouse were told to alert supervisors and search suspended Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose for weapons if he appeared, as a 60-count ethics complaint against…
A judge ordered suspended Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose to vacate his Jackson home and barred him from threatening his wife, their daughters or her attorney, then sealed the…
Facing a 113-page ethics complaint, Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose denied every count and argued that his mental and physical condition had impaired his ability to make rational decisions.
District Judges Charlie McKnight and Bob Sherling scheduled campaign kickoffs, while former Circuit Judge and District Attorney Chris Galanos explained, candidly, why he would not challenge for a circuit seat.
Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose asked the Court of the Judiciary to pause proceedings while investigators kept working. The chief judge scrawled 'Denied' across the motion and signed it.
With Clarke County Circuit Judge Stuart DuBose suspended and facing a 60-charge ethics complaint, judges from Washington, Choctaw, Monroe and Marengo counties were assigned to keep his courtrooms running.