Days after a mistrial was declared in the murder trial of a former Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy accused of shooting and killing a Black man in 2020, about 100 people gathered at the Thompson Park basketball court to demand another trial. The gathering, which began at 6 p.m., included speakers, chanting and a march through […]
An Ohio jury failed to reach a verdict in the murder case for the ex-deputy accused of killing Casey Goodson Jr. in 2020, resulting in a mistrial this week. Goodson, a 23-year-old Black man, was fatally shot multiple times in the back by former Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy Jason Meade outside of Goodson’s family’s Columbus home […]
A mistrial was declared Thursday in the murder case of a Meiners Oaks man accused of killing his roommate with a small sledgehammer in 2019, with a new trial slated to start next month. The case against Cameron Lykins, 28, was continued to March 18, when another jury trial has been scheduled at Ventura County […]
Defence lawyers have sought a mistrial in the case against two men charged with the murder of hip-hop DJ Jam Master Jay, saying prosecutors improperly guided a witness. The witness told the court that one defendant confessed to her decades ago that he killed the Run-DMC star and told her “people get what they deserve”. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge who presided over the jury trial that resulted in an $83 million award to writer E. Jean Carroll for her defamation claims against former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his rejection of his lawyer’s unusual midtrial mistrial request was not a close call. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan […]
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Wallace Smith III’s fate hinged Wednesday on whether jurors believed Smith’s life was in danger when he fired 16 shots into George Derment Jr.’s car, killing Derment, early Sept. 23, 2023. Some jurors wanted to convict Smith, 43, of murder, while others wanted to acquit him based on Smith’s claims of self […]
Prosecutors relied heavily on an Erie woman’s testimony as they sought a conviction against one of her co-defendants on second-degree murder and other charges in a 2022 robbery and shooting that led to the death of a city man. But one comment made by Julia Gaerttner on the witness stand Monday led Erie County Judge […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer on Friday renewed a mistrial request in a New York defamation case against the former president, saying that an advice columnist who accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1990s spoiled her civil case by deleting emails from strangers who threatened her with death. Attorney Alina Habba […]
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Friday renewed his request for a mistrial in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case, after she admitted to destroying emailed death threats she received after first accusing the former U.S. president of rape. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, Trump’s lawyer Alina […]
After five hours of jury deliberation on Friday, District Judge Richard Jacquez declared a mistrial after a jury could not come to a consensus. Isaiah Taylor has been in custody for nearly two years after he was one of two teenagers charged in the death of Nicodemus “Nico” Gonzales at a house party in Las […]