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To be chief, a judge must have been in active service on the court for at least one year, be under the age of 65, and have not previously served as chief judge. A vacancy is filled by the judge highest in seniority among the group of qualified judges. The chief judge serves for a term of seven years, or until age 70, whichever occurs first.
A citizen's right to a trial by jury is a central feature of the United States Constitution. [1] It is considered a fundamental principle of the American legal system. Laws and regulations governing jury selection and conviction/acquittal requirements vary from state to state (and are not available in courts of American Samoa), but the fundamental right itself is mentioned five times in the ...
Judge Duty station Born Term of service Appointed by Active Chief Senior; 25 Chief Judge Kristine Baker: Little Rock: 1971 2012–present 2023–present — Obama: 23 District Judge Brian S. Miller: Little Rock: 1967 2008–present 2012–2019 — G.W. Bush: 24 District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. Little Rock: 1963 2010–present 2019–2023 ...
A federal judge has ruled that former Ald. Edward Burke’s allegedly insensitive comments on wiretaps about Jewish lawyers can be heard by the jury at his upcoming corruption trial. Burke’s ...
Federal grand jury for the Roy Olmstead trial, Seattle, 1926. The federal government is required to use grand juries for all felonies, though not misdemeanors, by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [5] All states can use them, but only half actually do with the others using only preliminary hearings. [6]
The Jury Act scrapped the "key man" system of "blue ribbon juries", in which jury commissioners typically solicited the names of "men of recognized intelligence and probity" from notables or "key men" of the community. A 1967 survey of federal courts showed that 60 percent still relied primarily on this so-called key man system for the names of ...
A Republican-backed Arkansas law allowing criminal charges to be pressed against librarians and booksellers for providing "harmful" or "obscene" materials to minors was blocked by a federal judge ...
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas; In office 1997–2012: Preceded by: Hugh Franklin Waters: Succeeded by: Paul K. Holmes III: Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas; In office March 18, 1992 – December 31, 2012: Appointed by: George H. W. Bush: Preceded by