By Grace Wong, Court TV KENOSHA, Wis. (CourtTV) – The Rittenhouse verdict paved the way for a passionate debate about guns, self-defense and justice. What the public was unaware of was the sequence of events taking place before the widely contended verdict that has captivated so many. More
November 22, 2021
A jury resumed deliberations Monday in the civil trial of white nationalists accused of conspiring to commit racially motivated violence at the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in 2017. More
November 22, 2021
The suspect in a Christmas parade crash in suburban Milwaukee that killed five people was free on $1,000 bail posted just two days before the deadly event. More
November 22, 2021
By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — None of the three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery had cause to make a citizen’s arrest when they saw him in their neighborhood, according to a prosecutor, who said Monday in closing arguments that the defendants decided to pursue him “because he was a […] More
November 22, 2021
The trial of father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan is nearing an end. More
November 22, 2021
Attorneys were scheduled to give closing arguments Monday in the murder trial of three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. More
November 22, 2021
Fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes accused of bamboozling investors and patients about her startup Theranos and its medical device took the witness stand late Friday in her trial. More
November 19, 2021
Texas judge declared mistrial in first murder case against man charged with killing 18 older women in Dallas area over two-year span but prosecutors vowed to continue to pursue convictions. More
November 19, 2021
As the last of five "not guilty" verdicts read aloud Kyle Rittenhouse shook with sobs and collapsed nearly falling out of sight of television camera fixed on him in Wisconsin courtroom. More
November 19, 2021
Denver suburb Aurora agreed to pay $15 million to settle lawsuit brought by parents of Elijah McClain - Black man died after suburban Denver police stopped him and put him in a neck hold. More
November 19, 2021
By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was indicted Friday on 27 additional charges, with prosecutors saying he stole nearly $5 million in settlement money he had obtained for his dead housekeeper, an injured state trooper and other people and fees meant for his law firm. There are […] More
November 19, 2021
Former top public defender whose firing 5 years ago was condemned by local NAACP chapter Kevin Gough is known in legal circles for pushing the envelope if he thinks it will benefit client. More
November 19, 2021
By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges Friday after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S. Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up, fell […] More
November 19, 2021
By AMY FORLITI and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for Kyle Rittenhouse have requested a mistrial based on several issues, including claims that prosecutors acted in bad faith and that the state gave them an inferior copy of a video that may be a key piece of evidence in the case. >>>READ MORE: […] More
November 19, 2021
The jury at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial returned for a fourth day of deliberations Friday, the morning after the judge raised eyebrows among lawyers when he let a juror take home a copy of the detailed legal instructions he gave to the panel. More
November 19, 2021
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy claims to be “the appointed son of God” and in 2019 claimed he stopped a major earthquake from hitting the southern Philippines. More
November 19, 2021
Florida detective investigating the disappearance of Carole Baskin's second husband said "Tiger King" star had three times refused requests for interviews and that the probe was ongoing. More
November 18, 2021
Defense attorneys rested their case in the Ahmaud Arbery trial after calling seven witnesses, including the shooter. More
November 18, 2021
Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial jury deliberated for a third full day without reaching a verdict, while a judge barred MSNBC from court. More
November 18, 2021
Three men are charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, and jurors will have to decide whether one, two, three or none of them is guilty. More
November 18, 2021
By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. (AP) — Lawyers for nine people hurt during the 2017 “Unite The Right” rally in Charlottesville told a jury Thursday that white nationalists “planned, executed and then celebrated” racially motivated violence that killed one counterprotester and injured dozens more. Their arguments in U.S. District Court in […] More
November 18, 2021
By RUSS BYNUM and JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who killed Ahmaud Arbery testified Thursday that Arbery did not speak, show a weapon or threaten him in any way before he raised his shotgun and pointed it at the 25-year-old Black man. Under cross-examination by the prosecution on his second […] More
November 18, 2021
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt stopped the execution of death row inmate Julius Jones on Thursday, commuting his death sentence. More
November 18, 2021
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a request by Steven Avery to review his conviction, a case that became the focus of a popular Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” More
November 18, 2021
Julius Jones, 41, who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday. More
November 18, 2021
Rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed Wednesday inside a beloved local cookie shop in his hometown of Memphis. More
November 18, 2021
According to court documents, the girl's older biological sister told a detective she saw Isabella in a dog cage, with duct tape on her nose and mouth and not breathing. More
November 18, 2021
Kyle Rittenhouse trial verdict watch Kenosha, Wisconsin and Defense Attorney Kevin Gough creates controversy in Brunswick, Georgia. More
November 18, 2021
Lawsuit alleges Alec Baldwin recklessly fired gun when it wasn't called for in script when he shot and killed Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on New Mexico set of "Rust." More
November 17, 2021
By MICHAEL TARM, SCOTT BAUER and AMY FORLITI Associated Press KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys asked the judge to declare a mistrial even as the jury in the murder case was deliberating Wednesday, saying the defense received an inferior copy of a potentially crucial video from prosecutors. Judge Bruce Schroeder did […] More
November 17, 2021
