The accused – Erin Patterson, (image credit: AP) MORWELL: A jury in Australia began deliberations Monday in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms for lunch. Three of Patterson’s four lunch guests, her parents in law, Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail’s […]
Karen Read, a 45-year-old financial analyst from Mansfield, Massachusetts, was found not guilty on Wednesday of second-degree murder, manslaughter, and leaving the scene of an accident in the 2022 death of her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe. The jury did find her guilty of operating under the influence (OUI), for which she received one […]
A New York judge declared a mistrial Thursday on the remaining rape charge against Harvey Weinstein after a heated dispute inside the jury room prompted the jury foreperson to refuse further participation in deliberations.“Deliberations became heated to such a degree I am obligated to declare a mistrial on the one count on which you didn’t […]
Even before the state trial began last month for the former police officers charged with fatally beating Tyre Nichols in Memphis, the defense notched an important victory. The officers’ lawyers persuaded the judge to seat a jury from the area around Chattanooga, Tenn., hundreds of miles from where surveillance and body cameras captured the officers […]
(Picture Courtesy: Facebook) As jury selection begins today in the federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, all eyes are on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where the first steps of a high-stakes legal process are unfolding.Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to charges […]
