FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Someone is booked into jail for murder, and then released. Some people find this unfathomable. First, it’s not murder until there’s a conviction. Second, the Constitution ...
A Black defendant has received a new trial in a Michigan court after a district judge, who is white, said that the defendant “looks like a criminal.” The Washington Post reported that in a 3-0 ...
“I don’t appreciate being misled,” said a New York judge after seeing an AI avatar used to represent a defendant. A defendant in a New York appeals court has been slammed by a judge for using an ...
Is a video of a defendant trying to escape from court by leaping toward the ceiling authentic? No, that's not true:A ...
Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...
When Can Defendant Pleading Self-Defense Introduce Evidence of Alleged Attacker's Past Violent Acts?
From People v. Guerra, decided today by New York's high court: We are asked once again to discard the rule recognized in People v. Rodawald (N.Y. 1904) and People v. Miller (N.Y. 1976) that ...
In 2011, Robert McCoy was tried on three counts of first-degree murder for the 2008 shooting deaths of Christine and Willie Young – the mother and stepfather of McCoy’s estranged wife, Yolanda – and ...
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