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Judge: Olney murder suspect unfit to stand trial
Mary Siegfried, Goodlett's attorney, asked that he be evaluated for competency to stand trial. In court papers, Siegfried wrote that Goodlett suffers from a bipolar schizoaffective disorder that involves mood disturbances and psychosis.
Updated: 10/16/2011 08:08P
Teacher to face trial in student assaults
A Montgomery County teacher is expected to face trial on charges that she punched, kicked and choked her first-grade students. The trial for 36-year-old Susan Lee Burke is scheduled to begin Monday in Montgomery County Circuit Court.
Updated: 10/16/2011 08:08P
CA upholds P14-B settlement between Napocor, Meralco
The validity of the settlement agreement is still to be determined by the RTC [Regional Trial Court] during trial, and the settlement's pass-through provision which appears to be the cause of the petitioner's fear is still to be threshed out and
Updated: 10/16/2011 08:03P
Unjustness of death penalty underlined again
Witnesses who had testified at his trial later said that prosecutors had coerced them. Even death-penalty supporters protested against his execution, saying that he should be given a new trial. But the courts denied his appeals. In his final words,
Updated: 10/16/2011 07:55P
Hough-McVeety to stand trial
WOODSTOCK— The woman accused of defrauding more than $100000 from a Woodstock business will stand trial. Ontario Court of Justice Judge Marietta Roberts made the ruling Thursday after a two-day preliminary hearing.
Updated: 10/16/2011 07:43P
Swelling crowd in provincial offences court means new prosecutor needed
"The only reason we haven't scheduled more court time is because I don't have a prosecutor to put in that courtroom," he said. Waits for trial have also increased dramatically. It can now take as long as nine months for a matter to go to trial,
Updated: 10/16/2011 07:38P
High Court upholds life term of married couple in murder case
The court, however, acquitted a third accused, who was also sentenced to a life term by a trial court for helping the duo in the murder and later escape from Delhi in 2002. Upholding the verdict of the trial court, the division bench of Justices BD
Updated: 10/16/2011 07:35P
Daniel alleges plot to malign him
has accused unnamed individuals and groups of deliberately planting stories and peddling inaccurate reports meant to paint him in bad light and give the impression of guilt even before the conclusion of his trial at an Abeokuta High Court.
Updated: 10/16/2011 07:34P
Defense to begin in bribery trial of Md. Sen. Ulysses Currie
The first three weeks of the trial in US District Court in Baltimore suggest that jurors have no simple task ahead. They have heard alternately head-spinning and mind-numbing testimony involving seven existing or proposed Shoppers locations.
Updated: 10/16/2011 07:26P
COURT OF APPEAL STRIKES OUT BATCH FAYE'S APPEAL
Justice Agyemang added that an order for a re-trial in this jurisdiction where witnesses may not be easily traced after such a long time will not be the proper order to make. “This is quite apart from the fact that in a criminal case,
Updated: 10/16/2011 07:19P
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