Kent Faulk

Suspended Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Dorothea Batiste claims former judge Scott Vowell sexually harrassed her

blog.al.com — Last week Batiste's attorney filed a motion asking the Alabama Supreme Court to bar the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission from continuing its prosecution of a complaint it filed April 19 against her. The motion also seeks to bar the Alabama Court of the Judiciary from hearing the case.

Former Birmingham Museum of Art guard sentenced to 8 years and one month in prison on child pornography charges

blog.al.com — Former Birmingham Museum of Art guard sentenced May 20, 2013 to prison in child porn case HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - A former Birmingham Museum of Art guard, who once had child pornography shipped to his workplace, this afternoon was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison.

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Birmingham man charged with capital murder in beating death of 2-year-old rejects plea deal

blog.al.com — DeMarcus Williams, 23, told Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Wallace that he did not want to accept the plea offered by Deputy Jefferson County District Attorney Michael Streety. The plea deal would have called for reducing the charge to intentional murder with a 20-year sentence, Streety said.

4 years in prison for man convicted of manslaughter in 2011 Birmingham dice game shooting

blog.al.com — BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - There were few dry eyes in a Jefferson County courtroom this morning as supporters of a shooting victim and the man convicted in his death heard a judge's sentence in the case. Jared Calhoun, 20, was charged with murder in the Aug.

Before the civil rights movement Alabama blacks faced discrimination on their way to getting law degrees and licenses to practice

blog.al.com — BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - When he was going to law school at Boston University in the early 1950s Demetrius Newton had thought about not coming back home to Fairfield and face setting up a law practice as a young black man in the segregated South.

Arguments over cellphone, punched ex-girlfriend led to fatal Birmingham shooting, detective testifies at hearing

blog.al.com — BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Several witnesses to fatal shooting gave police similar accounts of the incident and several fights that led up to it, starting with an argument over a cellphone, a Birmingham homicide detective testified at a hearing today. Stanley Brent Chatman, 26, is charged with murder in the March 1 death of 31-year-old Derrick King outside a north Birmingham home.

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Lawsuit: Jefferson County woman says she got meningoencephalitis from steroid injection

blog.al.com — A Jefferson County woman claims in a lawsuit that she became seriously ill after being injected last year at Brookwood Medical Center with a steroid for back pain that was made by a compounding pharmacy that recalled three batches of a similar drug linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.

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Maynard Cooper & Gale attorney likely has votes to become Jeffco's top lawyer

blog.al.com — BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Carol Sue Sponsler Nelson, an attorney at Maynard Cooper & Gale, appears to have a majority of commission votes to become Jefferson County's top lawyer, al.com/The Birmingham News learned late today. Commission President David Carrington and Commissioners Sandra Little Brown and George Bowman appear to be leaning toward selecting Nelson, according to interviews with county officials.

Attorneys plan to seek dismissal in capital murder retrial of former Alabama death row inmate

blog.al.com — BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Attorneys for a Jefferson County man, who had been on death row and was granted a new trial by an appeals court, plan to ask a judge to dismiss the cases against him entirely after a hearing this week in which the key witness in his first trial recanted her testimony and revealed she had received more than $10,000 in reward money.