Just a week after New York’s highest court found that the risk of deportation entitles noncitizens to jury trials on misdemeanor charges, the Bronx district attorney changed her tune Tuesday about seeking the U.S. Supreme Court’s review.
Read moreSince noncitizens can be deported after convictions on mere misdemeanors, they are entitled to have those charges decided in jury trials, New York’s highest court ruled 5-2 Tuesday.
Read moreA federal judge refused to overturn a $2.75 million jury award against the city of Los Banos and a police officer who shot to death Sonny Lam, denying the city’s request for judgment as a matter of law and a new trial.
Read moreConvicted Tuesday by a federal jury, finance executive Peter Cash Doye, 41, and real estate broker Raquel Reid, 38, both of San Diego, face more than 80 years in prison for a $49 million real estate loan fraud.
Read moreNew York’s highest court appeared reproachful Thursday of the decision to let jurors in the 2010 trial of four gang members remain anonymous.
Read moreThe Arizona Court of Appeals reinstated a $30 million jury award to parents whose son was killed in a high-speed police chase in which he was not involved.
Read moreWith opening statements still a week a way, attorneys ironed out a jury Wednesday for the New York trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Read moreAn overtly racist, 120-year-old Louisiana law with roots in the Jim Crow era that allows split juries of as few as 10 of 12 to convict even in life-sentence cases may be history after the Nov. 6 elections.
Read moreIn a capital-murder case where two transcripts are at odds on whether the trial was constitutional, Justice Sonia Sotomayor explained Monday that the Supreme Court had no choice but to turn away the appeal.
Read moreFor weeks, jurors have heard bewildering bits and pieces about the life of Ronald Hamilton, who has been convicted of killing two people on the night of Feb. 27, 2016, including a rookie police officer working her first shift.
Read moreA jury will decide whether a Fresno police officer used excessive force when he shot and killed a 45-year-old father of five, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Read moreTwo jurors who voted to hold Monsanto liable for a man’s fatal cancer from using the weed killer Roundup called a California judge’s intention to gut the $289 million verdict “unreasonable” Thursday, and rejected criticism they had been emotionally manipulated into making the finding without evidence.
Read moreIn a pair of documents filed late Tuesday, Bayer subsidiary Monsanto asked a California judge to overturn a $289 million jury award to a San Francisco Bay Area man because there is not enough evidence to support the man’s claims its Roundup weed killer caused his terminal lymphoma and his lawyers manipulated the jury.
Read moreA divided Eighth Circuit panel declined Friday to hear the appeal of a gay man who several civil rights groups claim may have been wrongfully sentenced to death based on some jurors’ belief that he would enjoy life in prison with other men.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday upheld a $44.7 million verdict against the city of Chicago and in favor of a man who was permanently disabled after he was shot in the head by an off-duty police officer following a night of drinking.
Read moreScoffing at the chance of a plea deal, a defense attorney for Statue of Liberty protester Therese Patricia Okoumou pushed Tuesday to have her act of civil disobedience weighed by a jury, rather than a judge.
Read moreDecades before Paul Manafort’s lobbying work for a pro-Russia political party led to a U.S. criminal conviction, his lobbying on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government sparked an investigation as well.
Read moreA juror in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial says a lone holdout prevented the jury from convicting the onetime Trump campaign chairman on all 18 counts.
Read moreThe jury in the financial fraud trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort sent a note to the judge on the fourth day of deliberations saying it’s struggling to reach a unanimous verdict and wants further instructions.
Read moreHeading into a second day of deliberations Friday, Paul Manafort’s jury is learning quickly that the presiding judge has few indulgences for them.
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