Latest Trial Court News
Supreme Court knocks out main challenger to President Chavez re-election
Lpez, the son of a well-to-do family, says the accusations were trumped up and called it unconstitutional to suspend him from politics without first giving him a trial. The human rights court is part of the Organization of American States (OAS),
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:56A
Higher power rates seen after court approves Napocor-Meralco compromise
Speaking through Associate Justice Jane Aurora Lantion, the CA turned down the arguments of government lawyers that the settlement agreement will result in consumers shouldering unfair power rate increases. "Petitioners' fear that the settlement
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:55A
'I SQUEEZED JOANNA YEATES' THROAT'
THE neighbour accused of murdering Bristol woman Joanna Yeates squeezed his hands around her throat for just 20 seconds, a court yesterday. After more than a week of Dutchman Vincent Tabak's murder trial, jurors were finally given details
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:55A
December Trial Set For Convicted Sex Offender
His trial is scheduled for Dec. 5 in US District Court in Oxford. He has pleaded not guilty. The 28-year-old Byrd was required to register as a sex offender because of a 2010 conviction in Florida for touching of a child or a mentally defective,
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:52A
Judge doesn't want children testifying in pre-trial hearing against Warren
A New Jersey Superior Court judge denied a motion to have the six children allegedly victimized by a 42-year-old Warren County man testify before his trial as to whether their accounts of abuse were tainted by investigators. Judge Ann Bartlett said she
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:50A
Former Rep. Kohring will plead guilty to federal charge
The first round of prosecutions of the Alaska cases was supervised by the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section under the Bush administration. The US Attorney's Office in Anchorage, which prosecutes most federal crimes, was barred from
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:50A
'Baseline Killer' trial's defense scheduled to make final case
Five years after Mark Goudeau was arrested, a Maricopa County Superior Court jury is poised to decide whether he is the “Baseline Killer.” He has already been convicted of 19 felonies
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:46A
Closing Arguments Today In Natomas Coach's Murder Trial
Closing arguments in the murder case of a popular Natomas football coach are scheduled to resume today in Sacramento Superior Court. Defendants Dejon Wayne Murray, Maurice Edward Reed Jr. and Kenneth Oliver Owens Jr. are on trial
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:38A
'Extreme force was used'
Lt-Col Ian van der Nest was testifying on the seventh day of the murder trial in the High Court sitting in Ventersdorp. He described the direction of the blood stains in the farmhouse where Terre'Blanche was murdered and what this indicated.
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:34A
Murder trial under way in 2010 shooting death
Investigators said that Wallace, his cousin Marcus Wallace, 27, and Keidric McKinstry, 21, were among a group of residents in the Hay Court housing complex who went to Creekwood Village that night to fight with men from the Meadow Lawn neighborhood,
Updated: 10/18/2011 04:31A