Latest Trial Court News
Civil suit against Strauss-Kahn to proceed
Photo / AP A hotel maid's sexual assault lawsuit against Dominique Strauss-Kahn can go forward to trial, a judge has ruled, rebuffing the former International Monetary Fund leader's diplomatic-immunity claim. Bronx state Supreme Court Justice Douglas
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:36P
ICO Global Cites Denial of Due Process Resulting from Justices' Recusals
The jury's verdict—the largest in the nation that year?was entered as a final judgment in the amount of $603 million, after extensive post-trial practice in the trial court. With interest, the award had grown to nearly $800 million over the three years
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:36P
'Murder': SC cites AFSPA, lets Army choose what kind of trial
New Delhi: The Supreme Court gave the Army full “discretion” to choose between a court martial and a criminal trial for seven officers accused of killing five persons in an encounter in Pathribal over 12 years ago. Today's verdict is the end-result of
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:33P
Second night in jail for Nupur, order on bail plea today
Ghaziabad Dentist Nupur Talwar, facing trial along with husband Rajesh for the 2008 murder of their daughter Arushi and domestic help Hemraj, was to spend a second night at Dasna Jail on Tuesday after a Ghaziabad sessions court reserved its order until
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:29P
Jury selection to continue in Chemung County hate crime trial
ELMIRA — Nine jurors were seated Tuesday in a hate crime trial in Chemung County Court. Nikoles Dailey, 45, of Holecek Avenue in Southport, is charged with two counts of second-degree assault, with one of those counts charged as a hate crime.
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:28P
Judge orders Navarro case transferred to Marin County
By Jeremy Walsh -- Staff reporter LAKEPORT -- A Lake County judge Tuesday ordered the child sex case against a former sheriff's deputy to be transferred to the Marin County Superior Court. Judge David W. Herrick made the order during a hearing Tuesday
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:28P
Downs asks appellate court for new hearing in Nico murder
Appellate prosecutor Joan Kripke argued that prosecutors merely provided factual records when asked by the judge, and that Downs was not positive he had ever asked for a bench trial. Downs was not present at Tuesday's hearing at the Appellate Court in
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:27P
SC asks Army to take call on trial procedure
The Supreme Court today ruled that the Central Government's permission was required to proceed with the criminal prosecution and trial of five Army personnel on charges of killing five persons in a fake encounter in Pathribal in Anantnag district of
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:25P
Pretrial set for former Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper charged with rape
Patrick Venable, 28, was ordered to stand trial after Special judge RL Hert Jr. ruled April 4 that there was enough evidence presented at the preliminary hearing for Venable to face trial in district court on a count of second-degree rape.
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:23P
Rafferty, accused of murder in death of Tori Stafford, won't take the stand
WARNING: Graphic details from this court case may disturb some readers. Dirk Derstine opened and closed the defence's case with a single witness — a woman who was one of the last people to see Tori alive on April 8, 2009 — in hopes of casting doubt on
Updated: 05/01/2012 04:20P