Indianapolis police officers are acquitted in the 2022 death of a man at his parents’ home
Jurors began deliberating Friday morning and took less than three hours to come up with a verdict following five days of testimony.
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Court officials, media preparing for Delphi double-murder trial
Nearly two years after his arrest, the man accused of the February 2017 murders of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams in Delphi is set to go to trial.
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New murder trial affirmed for Elkhart man with mental disability
A man with a mental disability who has for years claimed he was wrongfully convicted of an Elkhart murder and who spent more than 15 years behind bars can proceed to a new trial after the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a post-conviction relief order vacating his murder conviction.
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Veteran, young lawyers win $20M jury verdict in unique case tried amid pandemic
Facing unusual circumstances including a case tried during the pandemic, a team of plaintiff lawyers from Yosha Cook & Tisch secured a multi-million-dollar victory for their personal-injury clients. The total verdict reached $20 million, adjusted by a fault reduction for a net win of $12.2 million.
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New territory: State courts prepare for return of jury trials
As Hoosier trial courts prepare for the return of in-person proceedings with COVID-19 precautions, many unanswered questions remain about the best practices for safely conducting jury trials.
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Former AG Curtis Hill to stand trial after judge denies accusers’ requested delay
Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is set to stand trial before a jury next week, following two years of delays — and nearly seven years since Hill allegedly groped a lawmaker and three staffers during a party.
Weaver: Confiscated cameras not a good look for the court or the media
It’s not often that photojournalists’ cameras get confiscated by the government, at least not in the American land of press freedom. But it happened at the Delphi double-murder trial.
Jury selection underway in Delphi double-murder trial
Eight women and six men have been selected so far to a jury in the trial of a man charged in the Indiana killings of two teenage girls during a winter hike in 2017.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial set for May
A May 5 trial date was set Thursday in Sean “Diddy” Combs’sex trafficking case, and a prosecutor argued that the jailed hip-hop mogul’s lawyers were trying to exclude a “damning piece of evidence” by claiming it was leaked by the government.
Jury selection begins in corruption trial of former Illinois House speaker
The case against Madigan, who resigned in 2021, is one of Illinois’ largest corruption trials in years. The 82-year-old is charged in a multimillion-dollar racketeering and bribery scheme that included the state’s largest utility, ComEd.
Jury awards teen pop group OMG Girlz $71.5 million in battle with toy maker over L.O.L. dolls
The jury found that a handful of the dolls infringed on OMG Girlz’s “trade dress” and/or misappropriated the “name, likeness and identity” of the music group.
For jury duty, David Letterman auditioned for a role he’s never gotten
The longtime host of “The Late Show with David Letterman” found himself answering questions rather than asking them when a federal judge in New York City put the entertainer through an audition of sorts for a possible role as a juror in a criminal trial.
California man who sold fentanyl-laced pill liable for $5.8 million in death of customer
Brandon McDowell has been behind bars since 2022 with a fentanyl possession conviction. But the parents of the victim have now won an additional $5.8 million judgment against him for the death of their daughter.
Texas jury to decide if student’s parents are liable in a deadly 2018 school shooting
The victims’ lawsuit seeks to hold Dimitrios Pagourtzis and his parents, Antonios Pagourtzis and Rose Marie Kosmetatos, financially liable for the shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018. They are pursuing at least $1 million in damages.
Detroit-area mall guards face trial in man’s death more than 10 years later
McKenzie Cochran, 25, was unarmed and repeatedly told guards, “I can’t breathe,” while face down, following a dispute at a jewelry store inside Northland Center in 2014, witnesses said.
Trial of ex-politician in killing of Vegas reporter opens with video of attacker ‘lying in wait’
A jury in a hushed courtroom saw security video of a person wearing bright orange clothing slip into the yard of a home where a veteran Las Vegas investigative journalist was ambushed and killed nearly two years ago as the trial of a former elected county official charged with the reporter’s murder began Wednesday.
Jury finds defendant guilty in infant co-sleeping death case
Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers announced that on July 31, a jury found Taylor Alexis Smith guilty as charged for the death of her infant son Wade Wilson.
Mistrial declared in case of Indiana man accused of fatally shooting 5, including pregnant woman
A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of an Indianapolis man accused of fatally shooting five people, including a pregnant woman. Marion County Superior Judge Chris Miller declared the mistrial Tuesday in the trial of 20-year-old Raymond Ronald Lee Childs III after a witness verbally confronted the defendant in front of the jury.
Harvey Weinstein retrial in NYC tentatively set for November
A judge has tentatively scheduled Harvey Weinstein’s planned retrial on rape and sexual assault charges to begin on Nov. 12.
Second phase of NRA civil trial over nonprofit’s spending set to open in NYC
The second phase of the civil trial against the National Rifle Association and its top executives is set to begin Monday in Manhattan, with New York Attorney General Letitia James seeking an independent monitor to oversee the powerful gun rights group.
Gold bars and Sen. Bob Menendez’s curiosity about their price takes central role at bribery trial
The evidence is considered crucial in the government’s effort to prove that Menendez and his wife received gold bars, cash and a luxury car from 2018 to 2022 from three New Jersey businessmen who benefited from favors Menendez allegedly delivered in return.
Hunter Biden convicted of all 3 felonies in federal gun trial
The son of President Joe Biden was found guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.
UPDATE: Jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial begin deliberating
It’s the first of two trials Hunter Biden faces in the midst of his Democratic father’s reelection campaign. The younger Biden is also charged with failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes in a case scheduled to go to trial in September.
Back from France, the first lady attends Hunter Biden’s gun trial as prosecution wraps up
Federal prosecutors aimed to wrap up their gun case against Hunter Biden on Friday with two final witnesses in their effort to prove that the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun purchase form when he said he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.