Retrial of ex-Vanderbilt football players set for April
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The retrial of two former Vanderbilt University football players on rape charges is scheduled for...
View ArticleNobody has right to touch woman without her consent: court
New Delhi: Nobody has a right to touch a woman's body without her consent, a Delhi court has observed while upholding the six-month jail term of an army hospital employee for molesting a woman medical...
View ArticleSupreme Court looks at exclusion of blacks from jury in Georgia death penalty...
(Source: Equal Justice USA) By Ursula Bentele In its next look at the death penalty, the Supreme Court is faced with the case of Timothy Tyrone Foster, to be argued on November 2. Foster is a black man...
View ArticleIn `Goodfellas' Trial, Macho Lawyers Give Way as Women Take Over
There may be nothing more macho than a mob trial: Recall Rudolph Giuliani and John Gotti, or Eliot Ness and Al Capone. Then there’s the “Goodfellas” case going on in Brooklyn, New York, against accused...
View ArticleAccused Liverpool killer wants to fire $13,000 lawyer, but judge won't let him
Syracuse, NY -- Sean Hunter told a judge today he wanted to fire his lawyer four days before a murder trial. But after a contentious court appearance in which Hunter and his lawyer spoke over each...
View ArticleSupreme Court case offers glimpse at role of race in jury selection
News of the murder traveled like a rifle shot across Floyd County in northwest Georgia. The year was 1986. The defendant, an 18-year-old African American, was facing a possible death sentence. Before...
View ArticleJuror dismissed for sharing trial details on Facebook
Kimberly EllisPhoto: FacebookThe forewoman of a Queens jury was so addicted to Facebook that she couldn’t help herself from posting musings about the case she was on — and it caused a mistrial....
View ArticleSupreme Court troubled by DA’s rejection of black jurors
The Supreme Court appeared troubled Monday by the actions of a Georgia prosecutor in disqualifying all the black prospective jurors from the death penalty trial of a black teenager who was accused of...
View ArticleEx-headmaster at Carlsbad boarding school is partially acquitted in...
A former Army and Navy Academy headmaster was acquitted Friday on four of five charges that he had molested two cadets during a 1997 ski trip. The jury deadlocked on charges that he molested another...
View ArticleJudge in Jerry Sandusky case seeks info on grand jury leaks
The judge handling convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky's appeal ordered Pennsylvania's attorney general on Thursday to provide him and the former Penn State assistant football coach's lawyers any...
View ArticleJustices review Georgia DA’s choice of all-white murder trial jury
WASHINGTON — Prosecutor Stephen Lanier’s meaning was unmistakable when he urged jurors in north Georgia to sentence the defendant to death in part to deter other people “out there in the projects.”...
View ArticleTestimony that led to mistrial in El Rukn case a $68,000 error
Testimony by a former Chicago police detective that triggered a mistrial in the ongoing saga of a wrongfully convicted former death row inmate has turned out to be a $68,000 mistake. U.S. District...
View ArticleJustices review DA's choice of all-white murder trial jury
Prosecutor Stephen Lanier's meaning was unmistakable when he urged jurors in north Georgia to sentence the defendant to death in part to deter other people "out there in the projects." Almost everyone...
View ArticleMistrial for Alabama police officer who threw Indian man
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Wednesday declared a second mistrial when a jury deadlocked again in the case of an Alabama police officer accused of throwing an Indian man to the ground, according to...
View ArticleMistrial declared in US cop's assault on Indian grandfather
Washington, Nov 5 (IANS) For the second time in less than two months, a US judge declared a mistrial in the case against an Alabama police officer charged with slamming an Indian grandfather to the...
View ArticleSandusky lawyer wants charges dismissed if leaks were made to grand jury
BELLEFONTE — The judge handling convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky's appeal ordered Pennsylvania's attorney general on Thursday to provide him and the former Penn State assistant football coach's...
View ArticleIn Indian grandfather assault case, a second mistrial as US jury can't decide
Washington: After marathon deliberations spread over four days, a 12-member jury hearing the case of police brutality on an Indian grandfather in the US, has failed to arrive at a decision. The first...
View ArticleSecond mistrial declared for Alabama officer who threw Indian man to ground
Jury deadlocked again in second trial of Eric Parker, who was charged with violating civil rights of Sureshbhai Patel after being caught on video flipping him...
View ArticleIndian grandfather assault case declared mistrial for second time
After marathon deliberations spread over four days, a 12-member jury hearing the case of police brutality on an Indian grandfather in the US, has failed to arrive at a decision. The first trial of the...
View ArticleIndian grandfather assault case declared mistrial for 2nd time
The second trial within two months of an American police officer charged with using excessive force against an Indian grandfather partially paralysing him has ended in a mistrial after marathon...
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