Latest Trial Court News

One-year jail term to man in cheque bounce case
PTI | 11:04 AM,Apr 15,2012 New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI) The Delhi High Court has upheld a year-long jail term imposed on a man by a trial court in a cheque bounce case. Upholding the trial court's order for a year in jail for one LN Chaturvedi whose cheque
Updated: 04/15/2012 02:21A

Judge: Some jurors against retrying Clemens
WASHINGTON -- The judge presiding in the new Roger Clemens perjury case said some jurors in the first trial told him that retrying the famed pitcher was a waste of taxpayer money, a newly discovered transcript shows. US District Court Judge Reggie
Updated: 04/14/2012 11:47P

After mistrial, Clemens' perjury trial gets do-over
will go from the golf course to the court house. (Darrin Shaw / Las Vegas News Bureau / Associated Press / March 29, 2012) By Ian Duncan WASHINGTON -- Jury selection begins Monday in the do-over trial of All-Star pitcher Roger Clemens,
Updated: 04/14/2012 11:38P

Norway trial to focus on Breivik's sanity
A first court-ordered psychiatric exam found him insane, while a second opinion came to the opposite conclusion. "This question will certainly permeate a large part of the trial," one of the two prosecutors in the case, Svein Holden, told news channel
Updated: 04/14/2012 11:15P

New AGP appointment challenged in court
Haq was appearing before the Supreme Court being a prosecutor in a contempt case against Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani. Qadir had served as National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Prosecutor General. But he was removed after declaring his
Updated: 04/14/2012 11:04P

No accused can seek leniency under guise of 'being minor'
NEW DELHI No accused should be allowed to wrongly seek leniency under the guise of being a minor, the Supreme Court has said, slamming a trial court for allowing a rape accused to face a court for juvenile delinquents as there was ambiguity over his
Updated: 04/14/2012 11:01P

Rightwingers see opportunity as Breivik goes on trial tomorrow
OSLO An Oslo court has insisted it will not allow Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik to use his trial to convey his ideology to the masses, but the courtroom still risks ending up a platform for extremism. The far rightwinger considers the trial,
Updated: 04/14/2012 11:01P

BC Supreme Court allows medical marijuana users can have it in tea and brownies
By Louise Dickson, Times Colonist April 14, 2012 7:15 PM People authorized to use medical marijuana can bake it in brownies and drink it in their tea, not just smoke it in dried form, the BC Supreme Court ruled Friday. People authorized to use medical
Updated: 04/14/2012 10:21P

BC Supreme Court allows medical marijuana users can have it in tea and brownies
By Louise Dickson, Times Colonist April 14, 2012 7:15 PM People authorized to use medical marijuana can bake it in brownies and drink it in their tea, not just smoke it in dried form, the BC Supreme Court ruled Friday. People authorized to use medical
Updated: 04/14/2012 10:21P

'No one will touch him in Dinagat Island'
Ecleo was sentenced to reclusion perpetua (at least 30 years imprisonment) on Friday when Judge Soliver Peras of Regional Trial Court Branch 10 pronounced him guilty of parricide for killing his wife Alona in Jan. 5, 2002, in their residence in Forest
Updated: 04/14/2012 09:41P