Defense attorney Jamal Johnson claimed, 'All of the [Command Response Team] officers in this case, they are invested. They have a motive to lie.' This statement was made during the trial of Guy Rivera, accused of killing NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.
As the defendant, 55-year-old Colin Gray, sat just feet away listening, the students recounted the horror they endured on Sept. 4, 2024, at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, allegedly at the hands of Gray's then 14-year-old son, Colt. Judge Nicholas Primm, who is presiding over the case, ordered the media not to show the students' faces during the televised trial. The defense did not cross-examine any of the students who testified.
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The public outcry was swift and furious-this was, after all, by some reports, the most photographed tree in the country, the so-called Sycamore Gap Tree. "The senseless destruction of what is undoubtedly a world-renowned landmark-and a local treasure," was how one law enforcement official described it in the pages of the New York Times, before the culprits had even been apprehended.
Julia Wandelt, 24, turned up at the home of Kate and Gerry McCann and sent sinister letters and messages repeatedly begging for a DNA test. The 24-year-old Polish national gasped and put her hands to her face when jurors returned a guilty verdict for harassment on Friday, but a not guilty verdict for stalking. The jury unanimously decided Julia Wandelt was not guilty of stalking, but guilty of harassment (Go Get Funding)
Members of the far-right terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) murdered 10 people, carried out bombings and robbed banks in several German states between 2000 and 2007. In 2018, Beate Zschape, the sole surviving NSU member, was sentenced by the Higher Regional Court in Munich to life in prison, with the court determining a particularly severe degree of guilt. The trial was one of the biggest in Germany's postwar history.
Magnus Humphrey had known Maleesa Mooney only for a few days, but the Minnesota man had already become "obsessive" about the model, who lived in a downtown L.A. apartment. "That's my girl, that's my woman," he would say about Mooney during the five days they spent together in September 2023, according to her friend, Kiersten Dossett. The two were rarely "more than one foot apart," she said. Humphrey made comments about marrying Mooney, 31, who joined him at a family barbecue during their weeklong relationship.
The trial for an investor who allegedly kidnapped Ontario's self-proclaimed 'Crypto King' after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars to him is set to begin Tuesday in Toronto. Akil Heywood, 41, is facing three charges related to the alleged kidnapping of Aiden Pleterski in early December 2022, and two counts of extortion. Heywood was one of five men charged in July 2023 in connection with the alleged kidnapping.
Some background for starters: Cardi B was sued by a former security guard for $24M who alleged Cardi scratched her face with her fingernail and spat on her. While many celebrities would rather keep things hush and settle out of court, Cardi B had the time to fight the case. The accusations were taken to trial and produced some very memorable moments ranging from hair care inquiry to a very colorful descriptions of the security guard during her time at the stand:
Three men who called themselves the three musketeers chased down a man walking his dog before he was stabbed to death in a street, a court has heard. Kieran Shepherd walked his pet before being chased by three men in broad daylight in Great Baddow near Chelmsford in Essex in 2024, CCTV footage played to jurors at Chelmsford Crown Court showed.
Henrik Landerholm, the former national security adviser, is on trial for negligent handling of classified information after leaving documents in an unlocked hotel safe.
Simon Patterson told family members that he suspected Erin Patterson was trying to poison him before she hosted a deadly lunch that left multiple relatives dead.
Aidan Nugent, a 31-year-old man from Co Armagh, has been ordered to stand trial for eight charges of sexual assault. These incidents are alleged to have occurred in the United States.