Latest Trial Court News
State settles lawsuit with developer for $3M
(AP) — A District Court judge has approved a $3 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by a Billings developer after the state backed out of a contract to build an office building in Helena. The settlement was approved Monday by District Judge Jeffrey
Updated: 04/10/2012 11:09A
Fla. Justices Hearing County Term Limit Cases
The 4th District Court of Appeal has upheld Broward's term limits. A trial judge ruled against Sarasota's limits. The 2nd District Court of Appeal bumped the Sarasota case to the Supreme Court without a decision. AP.
Updated: 04/10/2012 11:07A
Trial For Boy Murder Suspect Begins
A juvenile court trial has begun at the Lawrence County Government Center for Jordan Brown, who was just 11 when he was charged with fatally shooting his father's eight-months-pregnant fiancee. Brown, now 14, is charged by prosecutors with killing
Updated: 04/10/2012 11:04A
European court OKs extradition to US of terror suspect in Oregon training camp
The court said Abu Hamza Masri and four other terrorism suspects could be sent to face trial in the US without fear that they would face "inhuman and degrading" conditions in a maximum-security prison if convicted. The men had argued that they could be
Updated: 04/10/2012 10:59A
Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik "not psychotic": report
In a report submitted to the Oslo District Court on Tuesday, psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas concluded Breivik was criminally sane on July 22 last year when he killed and injured hundreds. According to the report, a forensic psychiatric
Updated: 04/10/2012 10:58A
Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik "not psychotic": report
In a report submitted to the Oslo District Court on Tuesday, psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas concluded Breivik was criminally sane on July 22 last year when he killed and injured hundreds. According to the report, a forensic psychiatric
Updated: 04/10/2012 10:58A
Timeline: SIT probe of Gulbarg society massacre
By evening, 69 people, including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri were charred to death. June 8, 2006: Zakiya Jafri, wife of Ehsan Jafri, submits a complaint to be lodged as an FIR alleging that the police had not registered the FIRs against Narendra
Updated: 04/10/2012 10:37A
UK can extradite 5 terror suspects to US
Britain can extradite a radical Muslim cleric and four other suspects to the United States to face terrorism charges, Europe's human rights court has ruled. The case centring on Mustafa Kamal Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri,
Updated: 04/10/2012 10:36A
Zarakolu released from prison pending trial
Zarakolu heads the Belge publishing house, which has published numerous books on the oppression of the national minorities in Turkey and the Armenian Genocide. Zarakolu had said after his arrest that during the raid to his house the police confiscated
Updated: 04/10/2012 10:34A
Three Amity homicide victims tried to flee knife-wielding attacker, medical
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff Thayne Ormsby looks around the courtroom on the day of the opening statements in his triple homicide trial in superior court in Houlton on Monday, April 9, 2012. Deputy Attorney General William Stokes addresses the jury
Updated: 04/10/2012 10:34A