An Illinois jury is set to continue deliberations Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of a sheriff’s deputy who shot Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 for help and was later killed ...
• Jury to return: The jury in the trial of Brian Walshe will resume deliberations on Monday after spending more than three hours considering the case today. Walshe is accused of killing his wife, Ana ...
The jury trial is a cornerstone of democratic governance and a vital protection against government overreach, and its ...
This article highlights ongoing racial bias in U.S. jury trials, focusing on a Mississippi case where prosecutors, led by Doug Evans, repeatedly removed Black jurors to secure a death sentence.
London (CNN) — For hundreds of years, Britons accused of substantial crimes have had the right to be tried by their peers in a court of law. But now as the country grapples with an acute backlog of ...
Judges and lawyers should consider a more jury trial-like approach where deliberation begins after the last exhausted lawyer, at the end of rebuttal, drenched with sweat, slumps into the nearest chair ...
BACK OUTSIDE HERE AT BREAKING NEWS, WE NOW KNOW THE 14 MEN AND WOMEN WHO WILL DECIDE THE FATE OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY JUDGE HANNAH DUGGAN. A JURY LATE THIS AFTERNOON, SEATED IN THIS HISTORIC TRIAL RIGHT ...
Utica, N.Y. ― An Oneida County jury is scheduled to resume deliberations Monday morning in the trial of three former corrections officers accused of killing an inmate last winter. The three guards ― ...
The United Kingdom on Tuesday unveiled its reform plans to scrap jury trials for crimes with an expected sentence of less than three years. The measure aims to reduce a “record backlog of cases” in ...
Justice secretary David Lammy has announced one of the most significant changes to criminal justice in England and Wales in decades, by scrapping the use of jury trials for most offences that carry a ...
The right to trial by jury dates back to at least the 12th century. The government’s proposals to limit it in England and Wales, many argue, run counter to the UK’s core democratic principles. And as ...