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A majority of judges on Brazil’s Supreme Court reviewing charges against former president Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday voted for him to stand trial for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the government after he lost a 2022 election. The first three members of a five-judge panel voted to put Bolsonaro on trial. …
Read More »French actor Gérard Depardieu stands trial in Paris over sexual assault allegations
WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial Monday in Paris on charges of sexually assaulting two women on a movie set, in a case seen as a potential watershed for the #MeToo movement in France. …
Read More »Greenpeace USA to defend its actions during Dakota Access Pipeline protests at civil trial
A Texas pipeline company’s lawsuit accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline goes to trial in North Dakota on Monday, in a case the environmental advocacy organization says threatens free speech rights and its very future. The lawsuit stems from the protests in …
Read More »Lawyers seek acquittal, new trial for human smugglers convicted after family died at Manitoba-U.S. border
Lawyers for two men convicted of human smuggling charges by a Minnesota jury after a family from India froze to death in Manitoba while trying to walk across the Canada-U.S. border in 2022 are asking for their clients to either be acquitted in the case or get a new trial. Harshkumar …
Read More »Judge allows testing of George Floyd tissue samples as officer seeks new trial on civil rights conviction
A judge has granted permission to Derek Chauvin’s lawyers to have tissue samples from George Floyd’s body examined. It’s part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his federal conviction of violating Floyd’s civil rights after he was also convicted in Floyd’s 2020 killing. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson granted the order Monday, agreeing to …
Read More »Benjamin Netanyahu begins testifying in his corruption trial, calls charges ‘ocean of absurdness’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand on Tuesday in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, setting off what’s expected to be a weekslong spectacle that will draw unwelcome attention to his legal woes as he faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes and the fighting in Gaza …
Read More »Defendant in YSL gang and racketeering trial stabbed while awaiting jury verdict
One of two men who was indicted along with rapper Young Thug and is awaiting a jury verdict was stabbed in jail but is expected to be in court Monday, his lawyer said. Lawyer Doug Weinstein confirmed that his client, Deamonte Kendrick, who raps as Yak Gotti, was stabbed Sunday. …
Read More »Jury selection starts in Minnesota trial of 2 men charged after family died crossing Manitoba-U.S. border
A trial in Minnesota for two men accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in Manitoba as they tried to make it across in 2022, starts this morning with jury selection. Potential jurors are being called from across parts …
Read More »Rays’ Wander Franco, who awaits sex abuse trial, arrested in armed altercation
Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who awaits trial in a sexual abuse case, was arrested for his involvement in an armed altercation in the Dominican Republic countryside, police said Monday. Meregirdo Espinosa, a Dominican police spokesman, told The Associated Press the altercation happened in a parking lot in San …
Read More »Most criminal cases in Ontario now ending before charges are tested at trial
Emily Quint says she would never have pursued the prosecution of the man she alleges sexually assaulted her nearly three years ago if she’d known what she’d go through. “The whole process was horrific,” said Quint. “The way that it ended, my whole world went up in flames.” A year …
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