Prejudice warning for bomb jury
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The jury at the year-long fertiliser bomb plot trial are urged to ignore prejudice in reaching a verdict.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - An accused bomber threatened witnesses, telling them to keep their mouths shut about his involvement in an airline attack that killed 331 people, a Crown prosecutor said in closing arguments Tuesday.
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The judge in Phil Spector's murder trial may ask jurors to consider a lesser charge, after they fail to reach a verdict.
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One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen "when a big black guy beats up on a small woman."
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Jurors in Phil Spector's murder trial may have to consider a lesser charge, after failing to reach a unanimous verdict.
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Two men face a retrial over the 21 July bombings after a first jury failed to reach a verdict.
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A woman who opened a letter bomb was shunned by colleagues who were also hurt in the blast, a court hears.
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The presiding officer in charge of U.S. military commissions in Guantanamo Bay has recommended that two panel members be dismissed from hearing cases of suspected terrorists because they could be considered biased.
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Jurors deciding the case of a reputed Klu Klux Klansman will have to decide without hearing from him whether he took part in the deadly attacks of two black teenagers in the Jim Crow-era.
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Showdown over judge who ruled for a white woman's use of a racial insult to a black colleague.
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Jurors in the trial of a man for the murder of a British gap-year student are warned not to assume guilt.
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A lawyer for one of Conrad Black's three co-defendants urged jurors on Thursday not to lump the men together when they decide if the four stole millions of dollars from the former media baron's company.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A confession purportedly made by one of the men accused in the Air India bombing case offends all the rules of common sense, a defence lawyer argued Friday.
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London police who excused a Muslim officer from standing guard at the Israeli Embassy insisted yesterday that the decision was based on his safety rather than personal beliefs. The Sun newspaper reported that Alexander Omar Basha's request was because of moral objections to Israel's bombing of Lebanon. However, the police officer's union said he expressed fears for ...
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LONDON, Feb. 7 -- At least six people have been injured by seven letter bombs in Britain over the past three weeks, in what police said could be a campaign by animal rights extremists or a disgruntled motorist fed up with this country's automobile laws -- or both.
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A judge criticises evidence presented at the trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in Omagh.
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MADRID (International Herald-Tribune) - As a verdict was due here Wednesday in the biggest Islamic terrorism trial in Europe, the government put security forces on alert and prepared new memorial services for the 191 people who were killed when 10 bombs packed with nails exploded on commuter trains in this capital on March 11, 2004. A three-judge panel was set to read out the verdicts and sentences after nearly five months of testimony by hundreds of witnesses, a spider's web of arguments by more than 40 attorneys and sporadic hunger strikes by several of the 28 defendants - most of them young Muslim men of North African origin who are accused of executing the plot out of allegiance to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda.