Latest Trial Court News
Shocking murder trial continues in Kingston
Shocking testimony at a trial in Kingston into the deaths of three teenage sisters and their father's ex-wife. The Crown says a Montreal man was recorded days after the deaths saying, "there's nothing more valuable than our honour". Court has heard
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:49P
Pletz criminal trial is pushed back
A telephone conference held Thursday through the US District Court in Kansas City ended with lawyers for former Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences CEO Pletz and prosecutors agreeing to a continuance from the Jan. 9 criminal trial docket
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:47P
Police seize hard drives from Orie office
Janine Orie worked as an aide to state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, another sister who is not charged with wrongdoing. Orie's first trial ended in a mistrial in March when Manning ruled defense attorneys introduced doctored documents as
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:45P
Aboriginals of Australia: Man Convicted of Targeted Extortion
During the trial, the Kalgoorlie Magistrates Court heard Sam Tomarchio took his clients' bank cards and PINs in order to recoup the money. Tomarchio told the court he was not operating a money lending business and he never believed helping starving
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:43P
Man charged in hate incidents back in court next month
Pre-trial hearings resume at the Newmarket courthouse next month for a Markham man charged after anti-Semitic graffiti was found in Richmond Hill in the spring. Joshua Burg, 19, was arrested after bridges, buildings, doors and windows near the transit
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:42P
Mike Coffman testifies in redistricting trial, says Democrats see him as
He was the first witness to take the stand today in a redistricting trial in Denver District Court. The witness phase of the trial is expected to end today. The court just took a break. Before that, an attorney for two Latino groups that have joined in
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:39P
Death penalty trial of Columbia County woman might happen in April
A Superior Court judge set a potential date this morning for the death-penalty trial of a Columbia County woman accused of murdering her neighbor and alleged romantic rival. The trial of Rebecca Bowers Sears, 43, will likely start in
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:37P
Cocaine trafficking trial begins
drugs in the back of the truck,” Pate said following Hawkins' indictment by a Morgan County Grand Jury. Opening statements in the trial were scheduled to begin Wednesday morning. Superior Court Judge Hugh V. Wingfield III is presiding over the case.
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:37P
A Genoa Township man convicted of murdering his girlfriend will not get a new
In his appeal, attorneys for Susalla argued the trial court erred when it allowed testimony from a woman who attended AA with Duberg about Duberg's statement that she was afraid Susalla was going to kill her and testimony about his prior acts of
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:36P
Prisoner denies guards' murder bid
The background to the offence is related to a dispute concerning drugs sold by two of the deceased men to Miran Thakrar." The victims were identified only by number to the jury. They were not named. Thakrar used a broken bottle of hot pepper sauce to
Updated: 10/21/2011 12:34P