Defense attorneys in Sen. Bob Menendez’s federal bribery trial rested their case Wednesday without his taking the stand. Menendez, D-N.J., briefly spoke to reporters after he left the New York courthouse and explained his decision not to testify. “From my perspective, the government has failed to prove every aspect of this case,” he said, adding […]
NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez decided not to take the stand in his own defense against federal corruption charges, though he talked about it “at length” with his attorneys. Menendez (D-N.J.) told U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein on Wednesday afternoon he would not testify, moments before his team of lawyers rested their defense case. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The defense for Sen. Bob Menendez rested Wednesday without the New Jersey Democrat testifying at his New York bribery trial. Lawyers for Menendez called several witnesses over two days in an effort to counter seven weeks of testimony and hundreds of exhibits and communications introduced by Manhattan federal prosecutors. Menendez, 70, […]
The defense has rested its case in the Karen Read murder trial after calling its final three witnesses to the stand on Monday. Read, 44, of Mansfield, has pleaded not guilty to charges including second-degree murder in the death of John O’Keefe, her Boston police officer boyfriend. The judge in the case is now talking […]
Lawyers for Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman charged with murder in the 2022 death of her police officer boyfriend, began calling witnesses to the stand in an effort to portray their client as the victim of an elaborate law enforcement conspiracy seeking to frame her for the killing. The testimony began Friday as the trial […]
Jury deliberations in Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial began Monday in Wilmington, Del., following closing arguments after the defense rested without calling the president’s 54-year-old son to testify. Hunter Biden is facing three felony charges over whether he lied about his addiction to crack while applying to purchase the firearm six years ago. He has […]
The prosecution has rested its case against the US president’s son, Hunter Biden, who is accused of lying on a federal gun-purchase form when he said he was not using drugs at the time he bought a revolver in 2018. Prosecutors say Hunter Biden was actively using drugs and purposefully lied on the form. They […]
Former President Donald Trump appears in court during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 20, 2024, in New York City. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. (Steven Hirsch-Pool/Getty Images) New York state […]
Donald Trump will not testify at his New York criminal hush-money trial. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He has relentlessly attacked the case against him as a political “witch hunt” and “sham.” Donald Trump did not take the witness stand in his own defense at his historic New York trial on criminal […]
NEW YORK – Donald Trump‘s defense lawyers on Tuesday rested their case at his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star without calling the former U.S. president as a witness. Taking the stand would have given Trump, the Republican candidate for the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, the chance […]
Donald Trump will not testify at his New York criminal hush-money trial. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. He has relentlessly attacked the case against him as a political “witch hunt” and “sham.” Donald Trump did not take the witness stand in his own defense at his historic New York trial on criminal […]
Lawyers for Donald Trump rested their case Tuesday without calling him to testify in the first criminal trial of a former president — and after a defense witness got into a heated back and forth with one of the prosecutors. Trump had said before the trial he would “absolutely” testify. “I’m testifying. I tell the […]