Trials

Trump’s historic hush money trial begins with jury selection

Trump’s historic hush money trial begins with jury selection

NEW YORK (AP) — In an extraordinary moment in American history, former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial begins Monday with jury selection. This is the first criminal trial against a former commander-in-chief and the first Trump’s four charges to go to court. With Trump as the presumptive nominee for this year’s Republican nomination, the …

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Jury of his peers: A look at how jury selection will work in Donald Trump’s first criminal trial

Jury of his peers: A look at how jury selection will work in Donald Trump’s first criminal trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is making history criminal process will begin Monday with a simple but extraordinary procedural step that is vital to American democracy. A group of ordinary citizens — Trump’s peers, in the eyes of the law — will be chosen to decide whether the former president of the United States …

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The OJ Simpson Murder Trial: The TV, Movies, Books, and Podcasts

The OJ Simpson Murder Trial: The TV, Movies, Books, and Podcasts

NEW YORK (AP) – The story of The Life of OJ Simpson was inherently cinematic – what began as fodder for a triumphant sports biopic suddenly turned into something much darker and more complex as Simpson slid from fame to infamy after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. It’s no wonder, then, …

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Trump’s hush money trial: What you need to know with jury selection set to begin Monday

Trump’s hush money trial: What you need to know with jury selection set to begin Monday

NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump will make history as the first former president to stand trial on criminal charges when his money laundering case begins Monday with jury selection. The case will force the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to juggle sitting in a Manhattan courtroom for weeks to defend himself against charges involving a …

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New York money laundering case: Judge refuses to delay trial after Trump complains about pre-trial publicity

New York money laundering case: Judge refuses to delay trial after Trump complains about pre-trial publicity

NEW YORK (AP) – The judge in Donald Trump hush money criminal case on Friday rejected the former president’s request to delay his trial because of publicity surrounding the case. It’s the latest in a series of denials of delays that Trump has received from various courts this week as he fights to prevent the …

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Alan Weiselberg sentenced to 5 months in prison in Trump civil fraud case

Alan Weiselberg sentenced to 5 months in prison in Trump civil fraud case

NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Weiselberg, a retired executive of Donald Trump’s real estate empire, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in prison for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil case for fraud filed against the former president by the New York attorney general. Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty last month to two …

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Woman convicted of conspiracy to murder, cover-up in 2019 disappearance of Connecticut mother

Woman convicted of conspiracy to murder, cover-up in 2019 disappearance of Connecticut mother

A woman was convicted Friday of conspiring to kill Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five who disappeared from an affluent Connecticut enclave in 2019 and has never been found. Michelle Trokonis49, was convicted by a jury in Stamford after a lengthy trial in which prosecutors laid out a case that she helped her then-boyfriend, Dolus’ …

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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer asks judge to reject recommended 100-year prison sentence

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer asks judge to reject recommended 100-year prison sentence

NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorney said Tuesday that the court’s proposed 100-year prison sentence for the FTX founder is “grotesque” and “barbaric” and that the most a sentence of several years behind bars is suitable for cryptocurrency crimes, which the California man is still contesting. In appearance arguments filed just minutes before a …

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Classified documents: Trump’s lawyers say presidential immunity protects him

Classified documents: Trump’s lawyers say presidential immunity protects him

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has urged a Florida judge to drop the criminal case on a charge of illegal storage of classified documentsarguing in part that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution, though that broad argument has so far failed in federal appeals courts in a separate case. In one of several …

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