A Baltimore courthouse bailiff will not face charges after an investigation determined that a 35-year-old man died from a self-inflicted gunshot, and the bailiff’s actions were legally justified.

An Oklahoma judge agreed to resign Friday after she was caught on video last summer sending more than 500 texts to her bailiff while presiding over a murder trial in a toddler’s beating death ...

The high bailiff’s job is merely to serve writs; investigating and charging the sheriff with a crime is beyond the position’s authority. Day-to-day, high bailiffs aren’t called upon to do much.