Criminal Trial of Theranos Founder May Be Delayed by Pandemic
The high-profile trial of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes set for July may be delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
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Iranian Man Convicted in $115M Sanctions-Busting Case
Two sick jurors videoconferencing from home helped convict Iranian national Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad on Monday of a $115 million sanctions-evasion scheme that ran through Venezuela.
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Minnesota Justices Revive Defamation Claims Over Cop’s Murder
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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Roger Stone Warned to Tread Carefully With Biased-Juror Claim
In a dramatic turn of events in the case of President Donald Trump’s confidante Roger Stone, the judge called the jury foreperson attacked by Trump to the witness stand Tuesday in a hearing to determine whether Stone should get a new trial.
Read moreRoger Stone Seeks to Disqualify Judge Based on Her Comments on the Jury
President Donald Trump’s long time friend and ally Roger Stone filed a motion late Friday to have U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson kicked off his criminal case, claiming her statements at his sentencing this week disqualified her.
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Whitey Bulger Juror Regrets Murder Conviction
The notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 years on the lam after he was tipped to his pending arrest.
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Florida High Court Reverses Itself on Death Penalty Verdicts
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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Fighting $105M Jury Award, County Says It Didn’t Target Growing Mine
Still digging itself out from a $105 million jury verdict, Sacramento County on Friday defended its decision to clamp down on a longstanding riverside gravel mine and asked the Ninth Circuit to drill into the mammoth judgment.
Read moreJurors and God
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the convictions of Corrine Brown, a former U.S. representative from Florida, finding that a juror was properly dismissed after he indicated he would base his verdict on what he believed he was told by God. A rule allowing a juror to “base his verdict on something other than the evidence would be antithetical to the rule of law and is contradicted by decades of precedent,” the court determined.
Read moreNo Trump Litmus Test for Jurors in Trial of Immigrant Cleared of Murder
Prospective jurors’ positions on President Donald Trump’s immigration policies won’t play a role in whether they’re seated to decide if an immigrant acquitted of murder is guilty of illegal gun possession charges, a federal judge said in court Wednesday.
Read moreMississippi Man Freed Months After Court Rules Racial Bias
A Mississippi man whose murder conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court for racial bias was released from custody Monday for the first time in 22 years.
Read morePublic Defender
A former deputy public defender claims in superior court that his supervisor at the Maricopa County (Ariz.) Public Defender’s Office, et al., fired him after he objected to underrepresentation of Latinos in county jury pools.
Read moreElon Musk Cleared in ‘Pedo Guy’ Defamation Case
A federal jury deliberated less than an hour before siding with billionaire Elon Musk on Friday, finding the tech wizard did not defame a British cave expert when he called him “pedo guy” in a tweet.
Read moreNAACP Sues Mississippi Prosecutor for Excluding Black Jurors
A Mississippi district attorney who prosecuted a black man six times for the same crime is facing a class action lawsuit that claims he has carried out a 27-year-old pattern of racial discrimination in the jury selection process by excluding black citizens from serving as jurors.
Read moreCivil Case Against Abortion Foes Now in the Hands of a Jury
A jury of nine men and one woman began deliberations Wednesday afternoon over whether Planned Parenthood should be compensated by anti-abortion activists who infiltrated their ranks and recorded abortion doctors and staff.
Read moreJudge Shoots Down Bid to Delay Major Opioid Trial
Jury selection moved forward Wednesday in a bellwether trial over the nationwide opioid epidemic after the federal judge overseeing the sprawling case rejected an effort by drug manufacturers and distributors to postpone the trial.
Read moreAttorneys Set to Pick Jurors in Massive Opioid Trial
Jury selection will begin Wednesday in a major bellwether trial testing the first of thousands of claims filed by local governments against pharmaceutical companies over the nation’s opioid epidemic.
Read moreSupreme Court Grapples With Louisiana Law on Unanimous Verdicts
The Supreme Court appeared unlikely Monday to endorse Louisiana’s view about whether jury verdicts in state criminal trials must be unanimous.
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