Latest Trial Court News

October trial date set in double-murder case
Logue started to assign an April date for Payne's jury trial, but his attorney, Meena Mohanty, said her co-counsel Sara Zuercher would be on maternity leave starting in April. Logue pushed the trial date back to Oct. 8. Mohanty asked for another court
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:28A

Theresa May to visit Jordan for Abu Qatada deportation talks
Abu Qatada was released on bail this week following a ruling by the European court of human rights, and the home secretary is seeking commitments from the Jordanians that prosecutors will not use evidence obtained by torture in any retrial.
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:27A

Kaneria implicated in English spot-fixing case
Pakistan international spinner Danish Kaneria was named in court on Friday as being involved in a spot-fixing scam that led to the trial of a former English county cricketer. Prosecutors in the case of former Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield,
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:18A

Stanford witness to testify by video
A Florida woman too ill to travel is expected to testify via video linkup Friday morning in the R. Allen Stanford fraud trial. Nothing is known about the woman, only that the 20th day of the trial in US District Judge David Hittner's court will start
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:15A

Ex-Goldman Programmer Conviction for Stealing Code Reversed
Aleynikov's lawyer, Kevin Marino, argued that the trial judge had “bent over backward” to let the government apply the espionage statute and said the case belonged in state court. “We are deeply gratified that the court of appeals has roundly rejected
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:08A

Kaneria implicated in spot-fixing case
London: Pakistan international spinner Danish Kaneria was named in court today as being involved in a spot-fixing scam that led to the trial of a former English county cricketer. Prosecutors in the case of former Essex bowler Mervyn Westfield,
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:06A

US court orders Sterlite to pay $83m damages to Asarco
A US bankruptcy court has ordered India's Sterlite Industries to pay almost $83 million in damages to Asarco for pulling out of a deal to acquire the copper mining company. The bankruptcy court of the southern district of Texas ruled on February 13
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:06A

Underwear bomber
Speaking briefly in US District Court in Detroit on Thursday, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 25-year-old son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, called his sentencing "a day of victory" and said he was "proud to kill in the name of God," according to wire
Updated: 02/17/2012 09:00A

Saudi mufti rejects call to try Hamza by non-religious court
By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: Saudi Arabia's mufti, the country's highest religious figure, has rejected calls to shift the trial of Hamza Kashgari, the controversial former columnist, from religious courts to the information ministry.
Updated: 02/17/2012 08:59A

GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP, INC. : Ex-Goldman programmer's conviction overturned
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction on Thursday night, and said an opinion explaining its reasoning would follow "in due course." The appeals court also directed the trial court to enter a judgment of acquittal.
Updated: 02/17/2012 08:59A