A security camera video showing the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader being attacked at a Malaysian airport and the two suspects hurrying away afterward was presented at their murder trial on Wednesday.
Read moreCiting public access to Waymo’s trade-secrets lawsuit against Uber over driverless-car technology, a federal judge denied several motions for protective orders over hotly contested evidence Thursday.
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Shortly before empaneling a 12-member jury on Thursday, a federal judge ruled that prosecutors can drag a Dumpster that may have been blown up by the accused Chelsea bomber into court for the suspect’s upcoming trial.
Read moreA serial rapist sexually assaulted a woman in 2011 and was not convicted of it until 2016, due to Houston officials’ indifference to a backlog of more than 6,000 untested rape kits, the woman says in a federal class action.
Read moreOn the heels of a sweeping order that dismissed 20,000 Massachusetts drug convictions tainted by evidence tampering, the state’s highest court now faces a call to do the same for thousands more cases handled by another disgraced chemist
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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an apology by a medical provider cannot be used as evidence in a civil lawsuit, even if the statement admits fault.
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Coincidentally timed with efforts by the southeastern states to brace for Hurricane Irma, New York’s highest court focused Thursday on whether government offices have a evidence-preservation duties in the face of “once-in-a-lifetime” storms.
Read moreThe defense in the upcoming Chelsea bombings trial successfully lobbied Tuesday to have evidence of the suspect’s shootout with police and subsequent arrest kept from the jury’s ears.
Read moreScandal-plagued Wall Street financier Benjamin Wey maintained his innocence Wednesday after federal prosecutors dropped securities fraud charges they could not sustain after a federal judge tossed evidence from bad searches.
Read moreA federal judge has sanctioned a radio host in a lawsuit where he claims Taylor Swift ruined his reputation after she reported he groped her during a photo op, because the host recorded a conversation with his supervisors but said he lost the audio.
Read moreA pediatric dentist claims in a defamation lawsuit that TV host Nancy Grace and other media outlets falsely portrayed him as causing the death of a 14-month-old girl through unnecessary dental treatment.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Trial judges should be more skeptical of forensic methods that don’t pass scientific muster, a panel
Read moreFor years, the sheriff’s department in Orange County, California, had a “failed system” that allowed deputies to use jail informants to violate the constitutional rights of criminal suspects, an assistant sheriff testified Thursday.
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Attorneys for a Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy in Mexico seek to show video clips outlining the risks routinely faced by agents as part of his upcoming trial.
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Rejecting claims of police misconduct, a federal judge found Hurricane Sandy to blame for the destruction of evidence in a civil-rights case surrounding the fatal shooting of a Guinean immigrant.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the murder convictions of seven men in a brutal 1984 killing in the District of Columbia, rejecting claims prosecutors withheld key evidence that would have cleared the men.
Read moreOhio death-row inmate Tyrone Noling believes DNA testing of evidence found at the scene of a 1990 double homicide could be his chance to clear his name and avoid execution, and his fate now rests with the state’s highest court.
Read moreA former Rutgers University professor convicted of raping a 29-year-old man with cerebral palsy on her office floor will get a new trial because she wasn’t allowed to present evidence that he consented to the relationship, New Jersey’s appeals court ruled Friday.
Read moreFormer death row inmate Kerry Max Cook, wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape and murder in East Texas decades ago, claims in a federal lawsuit that it’s time for police officers who investigated the case to pay for their extreme misconduct, including fabricating evidence and coercing witness testimony.
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The manslaughter trial for the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile during a traffic stop last summer began Tuesday with jury selection and a motion by the defense to exclude statements about Castile’s permit to carry a firearm.
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