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...
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (WDTN) -- The trial of the man accused of causing a deadly school bus crash last August began Monday with the seating of the jury. After questioning the potential jurors, attorneys for both the prosecution and defense settled on a dozen and three alternates. The judge gave those jurors instructions about their responsibilities []
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) -- The trial for a man accused of causing a deadly school bus crash is set to begin on Monday. Hermanio Joseph faces involuntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide charges for a crash in Clark County last August. 2 NEWS is breaking down what we know ahead of the trial. On Aug. 22, []
SEATTLE >> Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a suburban Seattle police officer charged with murder in the death of a 26-year-old man outside a convenience store in 2019 — the third person the officer had killed in the past eight years.
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.
Karen Read has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges. The prosecution says she hit her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, with her vehicle outside of a home in Canton.
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...
A Las Vegas man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son is due to appear in court on Tuesday. Brandon Toseland, 37, is getting a new defense lawyer, according to court documents.
A defence lawyer for one accused in a Sarnia murder trial floated theories of how her client’s DNA ended up on a bloodied knife and other key evidence past an expert biologist and the jury Thursday.
PHOENIX — Prosecutors said 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. Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink declared a mistrial on April 22. After the mistrial, the Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office had the option to retry Kelly — or...