Trials

Dani Alves: Former Brazil, Barcelona footballer found guilty of rape

Dani Alves: Former Brazil, Barcelona footballer found guilty of rape

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Soccer star Dani Alves was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub and sentenced to four years and six months in prison Thursday. A panel of three judges at Barcelona’s provincial court convicted the 40-year-old former Brazil and Barcelona defender of sexual assault for the incident on December …

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Trump faces a Monday deadline to ask the Supreme Court to delay his election meddling trial

Trump faces a Monday deadline to ask the Supreme Court to delay his election meddling trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Pres Donald Trump there is a deadline of Monday to inquire at Supreme Court to prolong the delay of his trial allegations that he planned to reverse his 2020 election loss. His lawyers indicated they would file an emergency appeal just four days after the justices heard Trump’s separate motion appeals …

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Jennifer Crumbley, mother of the Michigan school shooter, took the stand at her trial

Jennifer Crumbley, mother of the Michigan school shooter, took the stand at her trial

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — The mother of a Michigan school shooter testified in her own defense Thursday, denying any responsibility for the deaths of four students but also wishing her son had “killed us instead.” “I don’t want to say I’m a victim because I don’t want to disrespect those families who are really the …

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Texas school’s punishment of black student who wore his hair disheveled will face trial

Texas school’s punishment of black student who wore his hair disheveled will face trial

ANAUAC, Texas (AP) – A judge on Wednesday ordered a trial next month to determine whether A black high school student in Texas may continue to be penalized by his district for refusing to change a hairstyle that he and his family say is protected by a new state law. Darryl George, 18, has not …

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Surveillance footage shown at the trial of Michelle Trokonis

Surveillance footage shown at the trial of Michelle Trokonis

Venezuelan socialite Michelle Trokonis was seen with her now-deceased boyfriend Fotis Doulos in security footage showing him ridding himself of evidence of his ex-wife’s murder, her trial was told. Dulos was seen wearing a white T-shirt and black baseball cap traveling down Albany Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut, on the day estranged wife Jennifer Dulos disappeared …

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Juror Michel Trokonis was recused because of the prosecutor’s comment

Juror Michel Trokonis was recused because of the prosecutor’s comment

A nanny to Jennifer Dulos’ five children recalled on the stand Wednesday the panicked day the slain Connecticut mother disappeared in 2019 — while a substitute juror was benched for saying “we love you” to a prosecutor during the ongoing trial of conspiracy charges Michelle Trokonis . Trokonis, who was a friend of Jennifer’s estranged …

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Judge says Trump can wait a week to testify in sex-assault victim’s defamation trial

Judge says Trump can wait a week to testify in sex-assault victim’s defamation trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump may wait a week to testify in a New York defamation trial where he could face millions of dollars in damages after a jury found that he sexually abused a journalist in the 1990s, a federal judge said Sunday. Judge Louis A. Kaplan issued a one-page order …

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Trump faces a $250 million fine, a New York business ban after the conviction

The new year could be off to a rough start for Donald Trump. The former president faces a $250 million fine and ban from doing business in New York when the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial rules in the case later in January. The trial in Manhattan Supreme Court, which has been on hiatus …

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False election fraud claims: Court hearing to decide how much Giuliani should pay poll workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the federal case that will determine how much Rudy Giuliani may have to pay two Georgia election officials he falsely accused of fraud while pushing Donald Trump’s post-election baseless claims in 2020 The former mayor of New York already found responsible in the defamation lawsuit filed by …

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