Latest Trials News
A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that had kept him on death row until last month, when he was acquitted in a retrial. The...
Demonstrators in France praise Gisèle Pélicot's courage in harrowing drug and rape trial
PARIS (AP) — Women and men demonstrated together Saturday in Paris and other French cities in support of Gisèle Pélicot and against sexual violence highlighted by the harrowing trial of her ex-husband and dozens of other men being prosecuted for rapes while she was drugged and unconscious. ...
Trial of Salman Rushdie's assailant will remain in the New York county where the stabbing happened
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — An appellate court on Friday denied a request to move the trial of the New Jersey man charged with attacking author Salman Rushdie with a knife in 2022, clearing the way for the trial to move forward in the western New York county where the stabbing occurred. ...
Parkland shooting judge criticizes shooter's attorneys during talk to law students
MIAMI (AP) — The former judge who presided over the trial of the 2018 Parkland high school mass murderer sharply criticized his public defenders during a presentation to Miami law students Thursday, saying they acted unprofessionally and crossed several lines while representing him. ...
Prosecutors ask Massachusetts' highest court to allow murder retrial for Karen Read
BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have called on the state's highest court to allow them to retry Karen Read for murder in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, arguing against defense claims that jurors had reached a verdict against some of her charges before the judge declared a mistrial. ...
US agency adopts rule to make it easier for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions
The Federal Trade Commission adopted a final rule Wednesday that will require businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships. The “click-to-cancel” rule will prohibit retailers and other businesses from misleading people about...
Lawyers for Sean 'Diddy' Combs ask judge to release identities of his accusers
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asked a New York judge Tuesday to force prosecutors to disclose the names of his accusers in his sex trafficking case. The lawyers wrote in a letter to a Manhattan federal court judge that the hip-hop music maker needs to know the...
Jury seated for Indiana trial of suspect in 2017 killings of 2 teen girls
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The last of 16 jurors were seated Tuesday for the murder trial of a man charged in the Indiana killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a winter hike. Twelve jurors and four alternates were chosen Monday and Tuesday in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to hear...
Ex-Louisville officer who fired shots in Breonna Taylor raid readies for 3rd trial
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A former Louisville police officer accused of acting recklessly when he fired shots into Breonna Taylor’s windows the night of the deadly 2020 police raid is going on trial for a third time. Federal prosecutors will try again to convict Brett Hankison of...
Prosecutor drops an assault charge against a Vermont sheriff after two mistrials
NORTH HERO, Vt. (AP) — A simple assault charge has been dropped against a Vermont sheriff accused of kicking a shackled detainee twice in the groin after two mistrials in the case, prosecutors said Monday. A judge declared a second mistrial on Oct. 7 in the case of Franklin County...
