Law & Society

The Archbishop's top former aid former Msgr. William J. Lynn was convicted Friday of child endangerment. A jury of 12 found Lynn guilty of knowingly putting a priest alleged to be a child molester in charge of a youth project involving many children.

Friday, Jesse Curtis Morton, a Muslim convert from Brooklyn was sentenced to 12 years in prison for threating the creators of Comedy Central’s hit show “South Park” on his online website called Muslim Revolution.

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled today that the state’s executional law was unconstitutional and therefore must be forfeited.