Latest Trial Court News
Court: Seattle's Gun Ban in Parks is Illegal
In this week's ruling, which affirms the trial court's decision, the Court of Appeals panel wrote: “We hold that under the plain language of RCW 9.41.290 and RCW 9.41.300, the City's attempt to regulate the possession of firearms at designated park
Updated: 11/06/2011 10:07P
Cars may be focal point of Millerberg invesitgation
Damning statements of friends and jail inmates surfaced in search warrants that slipped into the public spotlight, and are now sealed by a 2nd District Court judge. The Millerbergs have been suspects since shortly after Rasmussen disappeared the night
Updated: 11/06/2011 10:04P
Victorian teenage arson charges dropped
But Crown Prosecutor Steven Milesi told the Victorian Supreme Court on Monday that the Director of Public Prosecutions wished to discontinue the case. Justice Paul Coghlan discharged the two teenagers on that basis. Kevin 'Mick' Kane, 47,
Updated: 11/06/2011 09:36P
Appeal attempt fails for violent offender
Brett Simeon was jailed for three years after being found guilty in the Manukau District Court of assault, threatening to kill his wife and mother-in-law, assaulting his wife and being in possession of a knife with an intention to use it to commit an
Updated: 11/06/2011 09:34P
Drug indictments unsealed, trial in January
Guam - Two federal indictments were unsealed in the District Court on Friday. Joseph A. Salas and Ann Marie Santos Toves face drug related charges in two separate indictments that were handed down back in September.
Updated: 11/06/2011 09:12P
AFM 2011: Rob Reiner Planning Film on Proposition 8 Legal Case
Talking politics, he says it is also important for him "to get Obama re-elected, although I don't know if we can." Rob Reiner is developing a film based on the legal challenge to Proposition 8, the California initiative that banned same-sex marriage
Updated: 11/06/2011 08:53P
Carlos the Jackal: I killed 2000 people (and only 200 were a mistake)
Source: AFP VENEZUELAN militant Carlos the Jackal, who goes on trial in a Paris court today, has boasted of committing more than 100 attacks that claimed up to 2000 lives. Asked about civilian bystanders who lost their lives in his attacks,
Updated: 11/06/2011 08:51P
Stabbing after drug deal falls through
An Auckland man stabbed his friend in the heart in an act of "senseless and unnecessary violence" after a deal to sell some jewellery for drugs fell through, Crown prosecutors say. Martin Dennis Olley is on trial in the High Court at Auckland for the
Updated: 11/06/2011 08:48P
Photos: Carlos the Jackal, then and now
Self-proclaimed scourge of capitalism Carlos the Jackal is already serving a life sentence for the 1975 murder of three people. He is going on trial Monday in a seven-judge special anti-terrorism court, charged with complicity in four bombings in
Updated: 11/06/2011 08:45P
Flamboyant terrorist Carlos the Jackal to take the stage again
The Venezuelan native goes on trial in Paris on Monday in a seven-judge, special anti-terrorism court, charged with complicity in four bombings in France in the early 1980s that killed 11 people and wounded 140. Carlos, born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez,
Updated: 11/06/2011 08:44P