In a recent case, the New York Court of Appeals revisited the allocation of decision-making authority between defense counsel and a defendant. In People v. Hogan, 1 the court has now determined that ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A defendant in a Sissonville child abuse and human trafficking trial left the stand Friday after two days of testifying in his own defense. Donald Lantz and his wife Jeanne ...

Bonnie Baker updates her previous article which discussed the Supreme Court’s decision in Diaz v. the United States. In that article, she discussed how Diaz had upended the interpretation of Federal ...

He was only 16 years old when he was accused of shooting Kayla Rincon-Miller to death. Now, two years later, he has taken the stand to tell his story in his trial. On Friday, May 1, the fifth day of ...

On September 12, 2023, plaintiffs Monica Kelly-Lewis, Gia Lewis-Grows, and Levar Lewis, successors to the estate of decedent Brouney Lewis, filed this asbestos action in Louisiana State Trial Court in ...

To speak, or not to speak? That is the question criminal defendants face at trial. In three recent high-profile criminal trials, the defendant answered that question with a firm yes and took the stand ...

A Florida appellate court has affirmed the convictions and 20-year prison sentence of Joel Gingery for two counts of sexual battery with force, while asking the state’s highest court to clarify ...

During opening statements on Monday, Darion Abel’s attorney asked a jury to find his client guilty but mentally ill of shooting his girlfriend 17 times in her Munhall home. But on Thursday, Abel’s own ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WTHR/Rich Nye A Lafayette woman is now charged with helping a jailed inmate try to communicate with co-defendants in the shooting ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - A Theodore man charged in a triple homicide shot one victim in the face as he was on the ground and chased another down a hill before shooting him, according to testimony at a ...