TORONTO - Jurors have begun their deliberations in the trial of Umar Zameer, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Toronto police Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup. The officer, who was in plain clothes, died on July 2, 2021, after he was hit by a vehicle in an underground parking garage at Toronto City Hall. Prosecutors said Zameer made deliberate choices to drive dangerously while there were people nearby, killing the officer. But the defence argued Zameer did not...
A Lauderdale County jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of man accused of murdering a 48-year-old woman on Valentine’s Day 2021.
the jury returned to the judge with a number of questions in relation to the case.
The judge overseeing the trial of a man accused of fatally running over a Toronto police officer repeatedly raised concerns over the prosecution’s changing theory of what happened that night and at one point indicated she did not see how a jury could reach a guilty verdict on murder based on evidence presented in court. During legal arguments not heard by the jury, Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy on several occasions asked the Crown to lay out its narrative for how Umar Zameer...
TORONTO - A man accused of fatally running over a Toronto police officer did not intend to kill anyone and behaved reasonably in the face of what he thought was an imminent threat to his family, defence lawyers said Wednesday, while prosecutors argued he deliberately chose to drive dangerously. The two sides made their final pitches to jurors at the trial of Umar Zameer -- who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Det. Const. Jeffrey Northrup -- with lawyers...
Prosecution counsel Sam Magee KC was opening the case against Cresswell (36), who is accused of Katie Simpson's murder on August 9, 2020 and who also stands accused of one charge of rape on a date between August 2 and August 4, 2020. The trial is being held at Derry Crown Court sitting in Coleraine and Mr Magee was outlining the prosecution case. He said that the prosecution would maintain Cresswell had 'strangled and killed' Katie Simpson, with whom he had previously had relations. The jury was...
The man acquitted of Jill Dando's murder has called for the police to investigate a Serbian hitman that a witness has claimed looks like a mystery man caught on CCTV.
A jury has convicted a man today for the murder of beloved community member Curshawn ‘Kaz’ Terrell.
Prosecutors say they will not retry case after judge declared mistrial last week when jurors unable to reach unanimous verdictProsecutors said on Monday they will not retry an Arizona rancher whose trial in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man on his property ended last week with a deadlocked jury.The jurors in the trial of George Alan Kelly were unable to reach a unanimous decision on a verdict after more than two days of deliberation. The Santa Cruz county superior court judge Thomas Fink...
The trial for Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused who is accused in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, gets underway Monday.
THREE men are dead and one wounded after two shooting incidents between the night of April 19 and the morning of April 20. The first incident occurred on April 19 around 10.42 pm on Piccadilly Street, Port of Spain, near Green Zone Sports Bar. According to reports, Lettrelle Daniel, 23, and Jamal Etienne, 32, both
Authorities relied on text messages, witnesses, security video and phone-tracking data to build a case against a man accused of killing and dismembering a Milwaukee woman with whom he was on a date, court records show. Maxwell Anderson, 33, also of Milwaukee, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and arson in the slaying of Sade Robinson, 19. The two went on a date April 1, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said in a criminal complaint filed last week. A...