An attorney for one of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting the killing of George Floyd asked a state judge to dismiss the case against him, arguing transcripts of body camera footage and interviews with investigators prove his innocence.
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A woman accused of helping her Army soldier boyfriend bury the body of fellow soldier Vanessa Guillen after he repeatedly struck her in the head with a hammer in a Fort Hood armory made her first appearance in federal court Monday.
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Prosecutors accused a man of conspiring with his new wife to keep the bodies of her children hidden on his rural Idaho property, adding to the charges he faces in the strange case that involves the couple’s doomsday beliefs and the deaths of their former spouses.
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Florida police officers can be heard laughing and celebrating after shooting protesters with rubber bullets during a May protest against police brutality, according to newly released body camera footage.
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A U.K. High Court judge ruled Monday that actor Johnny Depp violated a court order by failing to disclose evidence relating to his drug use to lawyers for British tabloid The Sun, which he is suing for libel.
Read moreBill Cosby can appeal two issues in his sexual assault case, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. The court will consider whether allegations of uncharged misconduct with five women were properly allowed during trial and whether it was improper to allow evidence from a civil case against Cosby.
Read moreA state investigator testified Thursday that a white man was heard saying a racist slur as he stood over Ahmaud Arbery’s body, moments after fatally shooting the black man with a pump-action shotgun.
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There was an abundance of evidence when officers arrived at the scene on a February afternoon in coastal Georgia: A man, apparently unarmed, lying on the street, soaked in blood. The suspected shooter, a shotgun, eyewitnesses. And video of the incident.
Read moreFour civil rights groups sued Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in federal court, claiming she illegally changed the rules of evidence in sexual harassment and assault cases, in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act.
Read moreThe Commission for Lawyer Discipline sued Daniel J. Rizzo in Harris County Court, claiming that as lead prosecutor in a capital murder case against Alfred Dewayne Brown, he failed to disclose exculpatory information; Brown was convicted in 2005 but in 2019 was found “actually innocent.”
Read moreAn appeals court in California upheld the conviction of Blake Leibel, a graphic novelist who tortured and killed his fiancee in 2016. The victim, Iana Kasian, died of extreme blood loss after Leibel ripped apart her scalp. The lower court did not err in admitting into evidence one of Leibel’s graphic novels, the appeals court ruled.
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The city of San Antonio claims in a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security that government officials helped the Texas attorney general build his case against the city over a sanctuary ban but stonewalled requests for evidence and testimony.
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Accused by TV’s Aunt Becky of withholding evidence, federal prosecutors have doubled down on their claims against the former “Full House” actress ensnared in the college admissions scandal.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas upheld the convictions of Craig Davison for his role in a “sordid tale of kidnapping and murder” of two men he blamed for burglarizing his house. While another man confessed to kidnapping and murdering the victims, and a woman pleaded guilty to assisting in the crimes, the court properly admitted evidence showing that Davison had abused both when they did not do what he wanted.
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Before appointing a forensic examiner or considering sanctions against a Tennessee county for the loss of months of dashboard camera footage – possible evidence for nine lawsuits against a single sheriff’s deputy accused of a range of misconduct – a federal magistrate wants to ensure the footage is actually gone.
Read moreThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled against Guantanamo detainee Ammar al Baluchi – facing capital charges relating to the planning of the 9/11 attacks – who seeks evidence from an alleged CIA “black site” where he claims he was tortured. The government, which plans to decommission the site, has provided “digital and photographic” evidence of the site, and Baluchi has not shown that those representations are insufficient.
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The federal government’s case against a Russian national accused of hacking tech companies LinkedIn, DropBox and Formspring in 2012 faltered Wednesday, as the judge overseeing the jury trial expressed some concerns about the prosecution’s evidence.
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Rafia Sultana Shareef did not know her son and his wife would carry out a mass shooting – a deadly act of terror – the last time she saw them on the morning of Dec. 2, 2015.
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New evidence against Mexico’s former top security official has been uncovered since he was charged with taking tens of millions of dollars in bribes to protect Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s Sinaloa cartel, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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Doubling down on their discovery demands in the college admissions bribery case, “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband told a federal judge Thursday that the government waited a year and a half to turn over evidence they see as exculpatory.
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