An attorney for a Georgia man sentenced to 32 years in federal prison for two armed bank robberies asked an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to grant him a new trial based on an FBI forensic examiner’s incorrect testimony explaining DNA evidence.
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In a rape case that sparked outrage over the ruling that a finger in the anus is no more sexual than a handshake, Croatia won a bit of save-face for protecting the victim’s privacy.
Read moreIn a dispute relating to court restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic, Nevada Chief U.S. District Judge Miranda Du vacated a U.S. magistrate judge’s order granting the government’s motion to continue the hearings of two men charged with breaking into a hardware store and stealing firearms. Du remanded the case with instructions to immediately release the men from custody.
Read moreA lottery winner who lost all of his money on a failed Titanic-themed bar was denied his right to a speedy trial by the Irish government, the European Court of Human Rights found Thursday.
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A state judge erred in slapping a high-profile Dallas attorney with $177,000 in sanctions over a pretrial phone survey because the survey was not a ploy to taint the jury pool, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Read moreCourthouses shuttered. Thousands of trials on hold. Legal deadlines pushed. The coronavirus pandemic has crippled the U.S. legal system, creating constitutional dilemmas as the accused miss their days in court.
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A state appeals court tossed on procedural grounds a case involving charges of child rape and human trafficking against the leader of a Mexican megachurch who lived in Southern California.
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A Houston man accused of beating two immigrants to death with cohorts in his human smuggling ring had his indictment thrown out Thursday by a federal judge who blasted prosecutors for delaying his trial for 14 years.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court handed down a tempered victory Wednesday for a man suing two media outlets, ruling that a defamation case against a local newspaper and a statewide television news channel needed closer scrutiny from a jury.
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Owning stock in a collapsing Icelandic bank may have affected the impartiality of judges in a trial of one of the bank’s top executives, the European Court of Human Rights found Tuesday.
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Convicted murderers no longer need a unanimous jury to sentence them to death, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in a dramatic reversal.
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers went to court Thursday with a last-minute demand to halt jury selection and move his rape trial out of New York City, where they say intense publicity, protesters and even the consideration of supermodel Gigi Hadid as a juror have turned the case into a “media and entertainment circus.”
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A Texas plastic surgeon serving life in prison for a murder-for-hire plot does not deserve a new trial even if cellphone data showing he met with the hitman months before the murder was improperly admitted as evidence, Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday.
Read moreNew rape charges against Harvey Weinstein in California are “next to meaningless” in his Manhattan criminal trial, a judge with the latter court ruled Tuesday, moving the long-delayed case into its next stage, jury selection.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreLawyers 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 moreLawyers 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 moreA 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 moreDismissive 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.
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