Latest Trial Court News
Accuser in Philadelphia Church scandal is questioned in court
By Dave Warner | PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A former US Marine testifying in a sex abuse case rocking the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Archdiocese stood by his testimony under cross-examination on Thursday that he had been molested by a priest in the case
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:26P
Details of Rafferty's life emerge at Tori Stafford murder trial
Michael Rafferty is shown in a police handout photo released as court exhibits at Rafferty's trial in London, Ont., Thursday, April 5, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO LONDON, Ont. - A hazy picture of the man accused of killing eight-year-old Victoria
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:24P
'Blond bandit' pleads guilty
Stephanie Schwab, 26, pleaded guilty at a hearing in US District Court in Alexandria to one count each of bank robbery, transporting a stolen vehicle and conspiracy to distribute heroin. According to court documents, Schwab admitted to a string of
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:18P
Jury Selected In Jennifer Hudson's Family Murder Trial, She Is On Witness List
By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter The man suspected of killing Jennifer Hudson's family appeared in a Chicago court on Thursday to face the potential jurors in his murder trial, and those being considered to decide his fate gasped when they realized
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:18P
The Real Trial for Health Care Reform
By Michael Sivy | @MFSivy | April 5, 2012 | + Carolyn Kaster / AP Over the past couple of weeks, the Supreme Court's hearings on President Obama's health care reform have dominated the headlines. The case is big news, of course, with huge legal and
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:15P
Sandusky in court
The defense has also withdrawn an attempt to prevent the attorney general's office from using at trial secretly recorded conversations between Sandusky and two of the 10 boys he is accused of sexually abusing.
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:15P
District judges' string of recusals haunt Jefferson Parish's traffic camera suits
As lawyers set their sights traffic cameras affixed to school buses this week, litigation involving Jefferson Parish's stationary cameras has quietly watched a rotary of judges head for the exits, court records show. Since September, five judges in the
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:10P
Live: Talbert not bound over for trial
By The Capital-Journal Monroe E. Lockhart III and Anthony Fitzgerald Talbert Jr. are in Shawnee County District Court for preliminary hearings Thursday. The two are charged, along with Jacob Barnett, in a Nov. 10 home invasion.
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:08P
Court puts cow suit out to pasture
The existing standard does not recognize "the risk that exists if (a cow) is allowed to roam unattended onto a public street," Justice Michael Kavanagh wrote for the court. In 2008, Hastings filed a negligence suit against the owner of the farm where
Updated: 04/05/2012 06:06P
Court officials release partial plan for arrested RNC protesters
Court officials are contemplating more hearings at night. "The plan is to expedite," said Michael Bridenback, trial court administrator for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Hillsborough County. "A lot of folks will be out-of-towners.
Updated: 04/05/2012 05:57P