Latest Trial Court News
LeBlanc wins judge's seat in landslide win; takes office April 3
LeBlanc, 42, currently serves as a hearing officer and judicial administrator for the 23rd Judicial District Court and Ascension Parish Court. She took a leave of absence during the campaign, but plans to return to work April 1.
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:54A
Big Bang physicist in terror trial
French police arrested Mr Hicheur, a researcher studying the universe's birth - the Big Bang - at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), in October 2009 after intercepting emails he wrote. The trial began yesterday in a Paris courtroom
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:49A
Dink case may go back to trial
Prosecutor Hikmet Usta has appealed the ruling in the Hrant Dink murder trial, arguing that the crime was an organized hit. Usta said the court's ruling acknowledged the existence of an organization behind the killing, but said there was a "lack of
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:47A
French nuclear physicist on terror trial
But his defenders say he only sent some angry emails and fear he may be unfairly linked with a gunman who recently sowed terror in southern France. Adlene Hicheur, who used to work at Europe's most prestigious particle accelerator, has been in prison
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:46A
French nuke scientist on trial for 'terror plot'
French police arrested Hicheur, a researcher studying the universe's birth -- the Big Bang -- at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), in October 2009 after intercepting emails he wrote. The trial began Thursday afternoon in a Paris
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:45A
Supreme court will hear suicide-pact murders appeal
The court heard during the trial that Gauthier-Lachance and her husband Marc Laliberte were in financial trouble and had formed a suicide pact. A trial heard the children had been drugged and Gauthier had been found with her wrists slit when provincial
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:45A
iTunes, Sony PlayStation Network targeted in suit
The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California and asks for a judgement that Apple infringed and continues to infringe on this patent. It also seeks damages which will decided upon during the trial.
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:44A
Dink case ruling appealed by prosecutor
Prosecutor Hikmet Usta has appealed the ruling in the Hrant Dink murder trial, arguing that the crime was an organized hit. Usta said the court's ruling acknowledged the existence of an organization behind the killing, but said there was a "lack of
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:38A
Jury finds Stobbe not guilty in murder case
The defence argued someone else was responsible for the killing and pointed towards male DNA found on Rowbotham's purse, which was not Stobbe's DNA. After the verdict was read out, Stobbe smiled at the jury as he walked out.
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:36A
Appeals court quashes Florida lawmaker's subpoena
An appellate court says a Florida lawmaker and his aide won't have to testify in a lawsuit involving taxes assessed against online firms that book lodgings. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal cited a common law legislative
Updated: 03/29/2012 11:31A