Tag: Trial

Tickets to see talk show queen Oprah Winfrey in the flesh were at issue Monday during jury selection in the case against a Chicago...

A Chicago trial due to start Monday will open a window onto two Pakistani terrorist organizations and the men who plotted the 2008 Mumbai...

Iran on Wednesday postponed the trial of three Americans on spying charges without giving a reason, their lawyer said. The US State Department had...

Egypt's military rulers said on Sunday that 190 people detained overnight in connection with deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians in Cairo will face...

A top opposition leader arrested in a crackdown after President Alexander Lukashenko’s election victory appeared in court after months of isolation Thursday as Belarus...

The long-awaited trial of the doctor charged in Michael Jackson's drug death was delayed Monday for four months, with a judge saying defense lawyers...

Attorneys for Michael Jackson’s doctor called Friday for a new delay in his trial for the alleged 2009 manslaughter of the pop icon, due...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for US actor Charlie Sheen are seeking a public trial over his dismissal from the hit sitcom "Two and a Half Men," which was suspended after a public spat between Sheen and the producer. The 45-year-old actor is suing Warner Brothers studios for $100 million for alleged breach of contract after the show was canceled for the rest of the season following Sheen's public tirades against producer Chuck Lorre.
Sheen is also seeking compensation for the rest of

President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill of 2011 into law on Monday, a piece of legislation that grants statutory bail to suspects under trial and convicts whose trials and appeals have not been disposed of within a prescribed time limit. The bill was signed into law at a special ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari signed the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill of 2011 into law on Monday, a piece of legislation that grants statutory bail to suspects under trial and convicts whose trials and appeals have not been disposed of within a prescribed time limit. The bill was signed into law at a special ceremony held at Aiwan-e-Sadr. Presidential Spokesman Farhatullah Babar told reporters that henceforth, a prisoner under trial would be entitled to

NEW DELHI - India's biggest corruption case descended into bickering over the quality of poorly photocopied witness testimonies and noisy ceiling fans on Friday as five senior business executives fought to win bail in a packed and stuffy court.
Judge OP Saini deferred until Wednesday a decision on bail applications of officials from the Indian joint ventures of Norway's Telenor , the United Arab Emirates' Etisalat and from India's Reliance ADA group, owned by tycoon Anil Ambani,

ISLAMABAD - Two Frenchmen arrested in Pakistan for suspected ties to Al Qaeda-linked militants were seized by police hunting an alleged mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings, officials told AFP Friday.
Intelligence officials said the men, known by their first names Zoaib and Sharaf, were between 19 and 22 and came from the Paris region. One is of Moroccan origin and the other's family comes from Pakistan. Both were arrested in the eastern city of Lahore about 10 weeks ago,

COPENHAGEN - Danish artist Kurt Westergaard, known for his controversial caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) , said Friday that he had not been informed of a trial against him in Jordan and said that he would in any case not attend.
"I have not heard about this trial and have not been informed," the 75-year-old cartoonist told AFP when asked about upcoming court proceedings in Amman.
Zakarya Sheikh, spokesman for a group of local media outlets that sued Westergaard in

MILAN - A defiant Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi emerged from court on Monday to launch a bitter attack on "leftist" magistrates who have accused him of offences ranging from tax fraud to paying for sex with a minor.
"I have spent a surreal morning," he told a cheering crowd of supporters gathered outside the Milan court where the latest in a related series of hearings was held on tax fraud charges related to his Mediaset broadcasting empire.
"The prime minister

LOS ANGELES - Gruesome photos of Michael Jackson's autopsy should not be shown to the jury in the involuntary manslaughter trial of the pop singer's doctor, defense attorneys argued in court papers released on Thursday.
Showing the pictures of the "Thriller" singer's autopsy risk jeopardizing the trial in May of Dr. Conrad Murray, they said. Murray is charged with inadvertently causing Jackson's June 2009 death by giving him the powerful anesthetic propofol as a sleep aid, as

MILAN - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial on charges he paid an underage teenager for sex opened on Wednesday and was adjourned until May 31 after a hearing that lasted just 10 minutes.
Berlusconi, who has suffered relatively limited political damage from the "Rubygate" case, did not attend the session, preferring to chair a ministerial meeting in Rome.
Crowds of critics and supporters sparred verbally outside the court over whether the 74-year-old should go

LAHORE - Lahore High Court judge Justice Ch Iftikhar Hussain on Tuesday sought complete record of trial court which acquitted CIA contractor Raymond Davis in double murder case after the legal heirs of deceased Fizan and Faheem had pardoned him by accepting blood-money (Diyat) from accused.
The court passed this order on a writ petition filed by Advocate Rana Ilamud Din challenging payment of Diyat money as, according to him, trial court left a lot of lacunas and acted in haste