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...
Procedures that played out in New York courtroom were banal, but their significance was historic: the first US president facing a criminal trialJury duty in America can often be a banal affair, a day spent in a courthouse filling out forms and telling lawyers when you scheduled your next vacation.But for those New Yorkers summoned to the state courthouse on Monday it was a day when the ordinary had become extraordinary. They arrived to a frenetic scene of loud protest and high security in...
Six years after charges were filed, testimony is set to begin Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with killing a gay former high school classmate. Samuel Lincoln Woodward of Newport Beach is charged with the Jan. 3, 2018, killing of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein. Woodward is charged with murder with sentencing enhancements for a […]
Juror 8 is a man who has lived on the Upper East Side since the 1980s and is a retired wealth manager who still consults with some clients.
‘What you are largely going to be left with is a left-of-centre, relatively well-off group of jurors, relative to the rest of the country because that’s Manhattan,’ Steve Duffy tells The Independent
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...
Opening statements are expected Wednesday in the trial of an Idaho man charged with killing his wife and his then-girlfriend’s two youngest children in an unusual case rooted in extremist religious beliefs.
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The TV show followed exactly the murder trial of Thomas Crompton who half strangled, then bludgeoned his 34-year-old wife of only a few months, Angela Phillips, to death in 2012.
OJ Simpson's 1995 double murder trial was one of the most watched events in TV history. Simpson was sensationally acquitted at the end of the trial in a decision that shocked the world
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s history-making criminal trial is set to start Monday with a simple but extraordinary procedural step that is vital to American democracy. A group of regular citizens — Trump’s peers, in the eyes of the law — will be chosen to decide whether the former president of the United States