Latest Trial Court News
Supreme Court lets stand $10.3 million award in Palm Beach County medical
The Fourth District Court of Appeal in 2009 upheld the award saying, "It is therefore well settled that retrospective laws are generally unjust." And the high court, in the unrelated case, reiterated that sentiment. Malove had hoped that the supreme
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:23P
Guantanamo trial for Cole bombing suspect delayed for a year
9, 2012 to hear the case of the captive whom the Bush White House branded Osama bin Laden's chief of Arabian Gulf terror operations. At one point, Nashiri turned to the soundproofed spectators gallery at the opposite end of the basketball-court-sized
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:22P
al-Mustapha: Parties to adopt final addresses today
The court will thereafter fix a date to give its verdict. al-Mustapha and Lateef Shofolahan, described as an aide to the late Kudirat Abiola, wife of deceased politician and businessman, Chief Moshood Abiola are standing trial on charges of conspiracy
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:20P
Murder Trial Continues For Man Accused Of Strangling Wife
By Shumuriel Ratliff / Reporter A murder trial begins for an Onslow county man accused of killing his wife and burying her behind their home. Soyer Moll sat before a judge in the Onslow County court house on Wednesday. The 22-year-old is facing first
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:17P
Court nominee popular with councilors, questioned over Bulger ties
Before joining the Trial Court, Roper worked in the law office of Brian Callahan, in Dorchester, and briefly started his own private practice before his court appointment. Councilor Charles Cipollini also raised questions about Roper's decision to ask
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:16P
Justice Out of Argentina's Dark Past: Dictatorship Era Torturers Sentenced
Many had mixed emotions about the verdict, especially torture survivors who have carried the burden of surviving and living without justice for more than 30 years. “Today there's mixed feelings, on one side there's the celebration after struggling for
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:15P
US state drop rape as an accomplice charge against polygamist sect leader
Warren Jeffs had been found guilty of rape by accomplice ” a 2007 conviction that was overturned last year by the Utah Supreme Court, which cited improper jury instructions by the trial judge. "As a result of the conviction in Texas, we decided not
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:15P
Breeders deny any cruelty
They have been on trial in Palmerston North District Court for 32 days. SPCA inspectors raided their Heretaunga Rd property, between Dannevirke and Woodville, on March 5, 2007, and found 161 cats and 87 dogs allegedly living in poor conditions.
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:13P
Former SPHS Freeway Death Case Could Move Forward
Although she described the evidence as "thin,'' a judge said today a negligence lawsuit filed against the state and City of El Monte by the parents of former South Pasadena High School student Sophia Ilona Salazar could move forward,
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:12P
Trial of five activists a complete sham, says coalition of rights groups
In addition to representatives of several of the groups, civil liberties lawyer Jennie Pasquarella observed the trial at Abu Dhabi's Supreme Court on behalf of the coalition and has written a report detailing its "flagrant due process flaws.
Updated: 11/09/2011 06:12P