Kurdish Activist Wins Free Speech Case Against Turkey
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of a Kurdish activist by not giving her a fair trial after her speech-related arrest.
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Charlottesville Lawyers Seek Order to Stop White Nationalist Threats
Lawyers for the victims of a violent rally two years ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, have asked a federal judge to stop a high-profile white nationalist from threatening them or their clients online.
Read morePanel Hears Fired Town Official’s Bid for New Trial
Lawyers for a man who claims he was fired by a small Missouri town for political reasons argued Tuesday before the Eighth Circuit that he should given a new trial because a black potential juror was struck on the basis of race.
Read moreSEAL’s Trial Delayed as Defense Seeks Info on Email Snooping
A judge delayed the murder case Wednesday of a decorated Navy SEAL to first make sure the government’s monitoring of defense team emails did not compromise his right to a fair trial.
Read moreFeds Rebuff Mueller Report Assertion by Indicted Russian Firm
Dismissive of a Russian company’s invocation of the Mueller report to dodge charges that it interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, prosecutors spent just five pages Thursday responding to it.
Read moreEx-Black Militant Appeals Conviction for Killing Cop
A former leader of the Black Panther Party and Atlanta civil rights activist fought Friday in the 11th Circuit for another chance at overturning his conviction and life sentence for murdering a sheriff’s deputy two decades ago.
Read moreIndicted Russian Firm Says Mueller Report Trampled Its Rights
A company accused of funding the Russian troll farms that favored Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016 told a federal judge Thursday that release of the special counsel’s report makes a fair trial unlikely.
Read moreJury Instructions Debated in Wisconsin High Court
The Wisconsin Supreme Court grappled with the side-by-side notions of truth and reasonable doubt in oral arguments Tuesday, hearing debate over whether the language in jury instructions adequately informs jurors about reconciling courtroom evidence to the end of a verdict.
Read moreMueller Ties Roger Stone to Russia, WikiLeaks
The parties in the Roger Stone criminal case must be very careful about what they say to the media and in public, especially at or near the courthouse, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read morePanel Hears Claims of Unfair Trials for Separated Families
Separating children from their parents at the border can easily be seen as a constitutional issue, a Fifth Circuit judge said Tuesday during a hearing about five children who were separated from their parents “indefinitely” after the parents were charged with misdemeanor offenses for crossing into the U.S. illegally.
Read moreReligious Juror Focus of Ex-Lawmaker’s Bid to Overturn Conviction
One year into former Congresswoman Corrine Brown’s five-year federal prison sentence, an 11th Circuit panel heard arguments Friday over whether her conviction should be overturned based on the trial court’s dismissal of a juror who said God told him Brown was not guilty.
Read moreFair-Trial Concerns Raised in Murder of Iowa Student
A 20-year-old University of Iowa student went for an evening run in her hometown and did not return home. For five weeks the family’s desperate search for Mollie Tibbetts drew national attention, but the story took an ugly turn when Tibbetts’ lifeless body was found hidden in a cornfield and a Mexican immigrant was accused of her murder.
Read moreEU Magistrate Backs Irishman’s Protest of Greek Fine
An Irish court should be allowed to protect one of its citizens from a judgment abroad of which the man did not receive prior notice, a magistrate with Europe’s highest court determined Thursday.
Read moreNY’s Top Court Calls Out 5-Year Wait for Manslaughter Trial
Dismissing the indictment of a teen who pleaded guilty to killing a Sweet 16 partygoer, New York’s top court ruled 4-3 Thursday that the 5-year road to trial was excessive.
Read moreNJ Court Tosses Conviction on 2012 Assault Spree
Ordering a new trial on four Bergen County sexual assaults that punctuated the summer of 2012, New Jersey’s high court ruled Thursday that serious errors tainted the conviction.
Read moreTriple Murderer Wants New Look at Forensic Evidence
An Ohio man convicted of three murders claims in a federal lawsuit that he is entitled to a new, impartial evaluation of the forensic evidence used against him after the state suppressed other evidence in his favor, including concerns that an analyst was biased.
Read moreHigh Court Takes on Louisiana Death Penalty Case
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up the case of a Louisiana death row inmate who claims a trial court violated his right to a fair trial by refusing to let him fire his attorney and represent himself.
Read moreOlivia de Havilland, 101, Gets Speedy Trial on Privacy Claims Against FX
A California judge on Wednesday granted 101-year-old actress Dame Olivia de Havilland a speedy trial on her claims of invasion of privacy against the makers of the miniseries “Feud: Bette and Joan.”
Read more‘El Chapo’ Lawyers Protest Legal-Funding Obstacles
With U.S. prosecutors threatening to seize any money El Chapo would spend on a private defense team, attorneys for the Sinaloa drug lord called it unfair Monday that they would also deny him taxpayer-funded counsel.
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