To the editor: I worked in Los Angeles as an attorney for 30 years, mostly downtown in the Stanley Mosk Courthouse. Sometime during that period, that court decided to use tape recorders instead of court reporters at hearings. ("No transcript, no appeal: California courts face 'crisis' over lack of records," April 12) Visualizing blank or garbled recordings being the only evidence of what transpired at a hearing, I was nervous. I forget for how long the hearings were taped, but it was soon...
The opinion stops short of saying lawyers can carry guns into courtrooms, but hints that will probably change once someone files another lawsuit.
The Supreme Court confirmed the appeal court’s conviction of Moreno B. (35) and Giërmo B. (40) for the murder of Derk Wiersum. Their sentences of 30 years in prison for planning and executing the defense attorney’s murder is thereby final - no appeal is possible against the Supreme Court ruling.
A Sheffield man will appear in court today (April 15) following a stabbing in Darnall. Adil Mohammed, aged 24, of Acres Hill Road, Sheffield is the second person charged with attempted murder in connection with the incident. He is remanded in police custody. On Staniforth Road on Tuesday evening (April 9), a 21 year-old man suffered multiple stab wounds after a fight broke out between a group of men. Subscribe to The Star’s free newsletter The victim remains in hospital. Adam Mohammed, aged 28,...
Follow the day’s news liveCounter-terror raids launched in Sydney as part of investigation into Wakeley church stabbingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastInspired by similar protests in the United States, students from Sydney University established a protest on the quad in support of Palestine last night, stating they will remain until the uni cuts ties “with Israeli universities and weapons manufacturers”.In the US, dozens of students have been arrested at...
The 15-year-old died from catastrophic internal bleeding after the bloody assault on the afternoon of November 7 last year, at the junction of Church Lane and Church Road in Horsforth. The 15-year-old accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is on trial at Leeds Crown Court. He accepts having the 13-cm-long knife and killing Alfie, but denies murdering him, claiming it was self defence. The horrific incident happened in front of scores of young pupils leaving the nearby primary school...
The court said that the electoral process in India is a ‘humongous task’ and rejected suggestions to order a return to ballot papers.
The family of a Italian chef who was murdered in Sheffield say their son was a “good person who maybe fell into some trouble” before he died. An inquest was held yesterday (April 23) over the death of Carlo Giannini, whose body was found in Manor Fields Park, off City Road, Sheffield, on the morning of May 12, 2022. He was 34. However, at the hearing on Tuesday, Carlo’s mother and father, Rosalba Galluzo and Antimo Giannini, had to learn two things they never knew before - that he died with...
The Supreme Court of Finland will hear arguments in the case of an evangelical lawmaker and a Lutheran bishop who are accused of hate speech in expressing their biblical views on homosexuality, defense attorneys said.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. The lawyer for Lucy Li – a young woman accused in a Stoney Creek double shooting – presented a new account of events in court on Tuesday. The details come on the fourth day of testimony from a key witness, who survived being shot in the heart. Li and Oliver Karafa are accused of killing […]
The man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death is on suicide watch. Candido Rodriguez, 51, was arrested for the murder of Melanie Woods, 33. Rodriguez wailed uncontrollably in the courtroom as he was arraigned
The lawyer representing Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man accused of orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, said the public should not believe his client as he prepares to represent him in what is setting up to be the year’s biggest trial.