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Campaigns for and against the recall of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky held dueling rallies in San Jose Wednesday in the wake of recent controversial comments by Persky’s campaign lawyer and spokesman about the victim in the case that brought the judge national notoriety.

A full paragraph apology has been posted to Twitter and LinkedIn accounts linked to the Manhattan lawyer whose racist rant in a midtown cafe became viral international fodder last week, though it couldn’t immediately be verified if he was the one who posted the messages.

When federal prosecutors apply for a search warrant on the premises of an attorney, Justice Department policy requires the approval of either the district’s U.S. attorney or the assistant U.S. attorney general, NBC News reported. That’s how serious the department takes searches like the one executed Monday on the law office of Michael Cohen, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump....

In Kentucky, parents have pooled money to pay an armed officer to begin patrolling schools. A mayor outside Cleveland, Ohio, is urging a security levy to pay for guards. And a town in New Jersey has begun assigning off-duty police to stand vigil inside all its school buildings. In the jittery aftermath of the shooting in Parkland, Florida, novel efforts...

A lawyer for Ursula Ward, the mother of the man Aaron Hernandez was convicted of murdering, is asking the New England Patriots to voluntarily give Ward whatever money the ex-NFL star might still be owed. Ward’s attorney, Douglas Sheff, said at a news conference Friday that a court has already ruled Hernandez legally responsible for the death of Odin Lloyd...

Police are trying to determine if a prominent San Francisco attorney was gunned down Thursday in El Cerritos in a random act of violence or whether he was targeted.

The family of a mentally-ill woman who was found dead and dismembered at a construction site after a hospital allegedly “lost” her is suing the city and county of San Francisco for wrongful death, NBC Bay Area has learned.

A federal lawsuit has been filed against the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office for the alleged beatings by correctional deputies of more than 20 Sonoma County Jail inmates over several hours in May.

The suspect at the center of a kidnap case out of Vallejo, Calif. entered a no contest plea on Friday in a separate matter stemming from a Dublin home invasion.

The suspect at the center of a wildly bizarre kidnap case out of Vallejo, Calif., is a wicked smart, determined trumpet player who graduated from Harvard law school – the place where he likely began suffering from bipolar disorder, according to documents, friends, family and his lawyer.

A bitter public records dispute is now forcing Florida Gov. Rick Scott to dip into his own pocket, and may force him to testify on his own behalf before next month’s election.