Latest Trial Court News
Mobile lands Middlesbrough man in court cells
A TRIAL spectator endured a sleepless night in the cells after he was accused of filming a Teesside judge in court with his mobile phone. Sjad Ahmed was locked up and faced the grim prospect of up to two years' jail
Updated: 10/15/2011 06:40A
Acquittal restored in Quebec murder case
The lower court concluded that admitting the evidence, given the manner in which it was obtained, would have brought the "administration of justice into disrepute" and therefore acquitted Cote. The Court of Appeal for Quebec, however, decided physical
Updated: 10/15/2011 06:21A
Yeddyurappa's bail plea rejected, faces arrest
The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) first chief minister in south India, BS Yeddyurappa, who quit in July over graft charges, Saturday faced jail as a trial court rejected his bail plea and issued a warrant to arrest him. Yeddyurappa was not present in
Updated: 10/15/2011 06:19A
Mobile phone lands Middlesbrough man in court cells
A TRIAL spectator endured a sleepless night in the cells after he was accused of filming a Teesside judge in court with his mobile phone. Sjad Ahmed was locked up and faced the grim prospect of up to two years' jail
Updated: 10/15/2011 06:05A
Yeddyurappa faces arrest, may appeal
The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) first chief minister in south India, BS Yeddyurappa, who quit in July over graft charges, Saturday faced jail as a trial court rejected his bail plea and issued a warrant to arrest him.
Updated: 10/15/2011 05:58A
Trial in dog attack case delayed until February
In Didsbury provincial court on Friday, Crown prosecutor Jim Hittle told commissioner Leslie Morris that the original part-day trial scheduled for Nov. 18 would not allow sufficient time to try the case. "The matter is going to take a significant
Updated: 10/15/2011 05:50A
Trial of ex hospital exec is delayed
Paul Galzerano, 59, a former Groveland resident, had been set to stand trial on Nov. 9 on bribery and larceny charges, but during a hearing yesterday his attorney, Scott Gleason, told a Salem Superior Court judge that he had underestimated how long the
Updated: 10/15/2011 05:42A
Judge reserves decision in Hatcher murder case
Because he was 17 at the time of the alleged offence, the young man is being tried in Halifax youth court, where his identity is protected. The trial got underway Sept. 26. Lawyers made their closing arguments Friday. Judge Jamie Campbell reserved his
Updated: 10/15/2011 05:37A
Bus driver can appeal new-trial ruling
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal of a Nova Scotia court ruling ordering a new trial in a negligence lawsuit against a school bus driver who hit a child. Johnathan Lee Marshall was four when he ran
Updated: 10/15/2011 05:37A
Court upholds conviction
trial counsel's failure to request such an instruction was not objectively unreasonable," the judges wrote. "Therefore, defendant was not denied effective assistance of counsel." By SUSAN FIELD Michigan Court of Appeals judges have upheld the
Updated: 10/15/2011 05:30A