Latest Trial Court News
Court: Victim, 17, to remain in custody for now
Sacramento County prosecutors had the teen placed into juvenile hall awaiting her testimony in a trial alleging suspect Frank William Rackley abducted and raped her last July. Rackley is also a suspect in a second area rape.
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:08P
SACRAMENTO - A 17-year-old alleged rape victim/witness will remain in custody ...
Sacramento County prosecutors had the teen placed into juvenile hall awaiting her testimony in a trial alleging suspect Frank William Rackley abducted and raped her last July. Rackley is also a suspect in a second area rape.
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:08P
Westfield District Court gets new 5-year lease, as state officials announce it
By Ted LaBorde, The Republican Photo by Mark M. Murray / The RepublicanWestfield District Court Judge Philip A. Contant, left, along with state Sen. Michael R. Knapik, center, and Paul C. Picknelly, appear at a press conference at which it was
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:07P
Westfield District Court gets new 5-year lease, as state officials announce it
By Ted LaBorde, The Republican Photo by Mark M. Murray / The RepublicanWestfield District Court Judge Philip A. Contant, left, along with state Sen. Michael R. Knapik, center, and Paul C. Picknelly, appear at a press conference at which it was
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:07P
Advocates for mentally ill erred in lawsuit - US court
The case must now begin anew, possibly with the US Justice Department taking the lead, the court said. Disability Advocates Inc brought the case on behalf of people with mental illness, following a model that is common in US courts for an association
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:07P
Michigan State C Derrick Nix waives formal reading of drug-related charges
The Lansing State Journal reports (http://on.lsj.com/I3pSQJ ) Friday the 21-year-old waived the arraignment in an Ingham County district court and must appear at a pre-trial hearing on an undetermined date. Court records say Nix was arrested about
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:03P
FREEDOM BID BY BRITON JAILED FOR KILLING FAMILY
But the 32-year-old it consultant, from Worksop, Notts, yesterday launched a legal bid to have the convictions quashed by the state's supreme Judicial Court. His lawyer Stephen Paul Maidman argued that officers did not have the appropriate warrants
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:01P
Injury to a child trial to resume Monday
On Tuesday, testimony began in the trial of Kendra Faye Keppler, 23, in the 104th District Court. Keppler was arrested Oct. 15, 2010, on a charge of injury to a child. Prosecutors say Keppler hit her daughter, causing a bruise on her right cheek.
Updated: 04/06/2012 07:01P
Advocates for mentally ill erred in lawsuit: court
The decision by a federal appeals court sweeps aside a trial judge's finding that the State of New York discriminated against thousands of people living in adult homes. The case must now begin anew, possibly with the Justice Department taking the lead,
Updated: 04/06/2012 06:57P
British killer in U.S jail wants new trial and claims police raid on his home
The Nottinghamshire computer engineer was jailed for life without parole over the 2006 double killing, but his lawyers yesterday (FRI) told the Massachusetts supreme court in Boston that much of the crucial evidence heard at his trial was unlawfully
Updated: 04/06/2012 06:51P