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Wed. May 16, 2012

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Photo: Ted S. Warren / AP Deputy prosecutor Grant Blinn shows the jury a photograph as he makes his closing statement in the voyeurism trial of Steve Powell, Tuesday, May 15, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash.
By Christine Harvey, The Times-Picayune A Washington Parish grand jury has declined to charge anyone in connection with the death of a Covington teenager in February in Franklinton.
The punishment verdicts for intoxication assault and failure to stop and render aid followed more than three hours of jury deliberations and a week of emotional testimony in which the parents of Ava Lopez, 18 months old at the time of the April 2009 ...

After two long days inside the courtroom, a jury's been selected in the high-profile trial of Terry Sturgis. Sturgis allegedly beat his 10 year old son Tramelle to death with a wooden club last November.
Steve Cooley said on Tuesday that the corruption investigation of Assessor John Noguez has grown to include other individuals and that he intends to seek grand jury indictments in the near future. In his first public comments about the expanding ...
By BRETT HAMBRIGHT After eight hours of deliberations, a Lancaster County jury decided Tuesday that Jakeem Towles should pay with his life for killing a 20-year-old hip-hop musician two years ago in Columbia.
A jury in Tacoma has reinstated the death penalty for a man convicted of raping, robbing and stabbing a neighbor to death. The Associated Press No comments have been posted to this article.
By Marcus K. Garner A DeKalb County jury is to resume deliberations Wednesday morning on the fate of alleged robbing crew leader Michael Blaine, charged with the deaths of two men.

The jury considering the death penalty for convicted cop-killer Michael Astorga now seems to be back on track - after appearing to be hopelessly deadlocked just 24 hours ago.
By STEVE KARNOWSKI A Minnesota grand jury has indicted a national right-to-die group and several members for their actions in the 2007 suicide of a suburban Minneapolis woman, prosecutors announced Monday.
In their first three hours of deliberation Monday, the jury had questions on the charges related the 2004 incident, which allege that Zisa conspired with two supervising officers to coerce a patrolwoman to remove Tiernan's 16-year-old son's name from a ...
By BRETT HAMBRIGHT A Lancaster County jury has heard all the evidence, arguments and testimony regarding convicted killer Jakeem Towles.
Greg and JaLea Swezey did not know their 17-year-old son, Zachery, was dying, until just before he died from a ruptured appendix on March 18, 2009, a defense attorney told an Okanogan County jury Monday. By then, it was too late to call an ambulance to ...
But following a court ruling last week, Mr Justice Patrick McCarthy directed the jury to acquit him of murder and to consider a verdict of manslaughter.
Gabriel told the jury that his parents, who were in the midst of a contentious divorce, argued frequently. Although he said he never saw his father hit his mother, he said he overheard a loud fight and saw the aftermath on her body.
But a jury found in favor of the railroad late Monday after deliberating for most of the day as well as part of Friday. Union Pacific lawyer Michael Johnson, who is not related to the plaintiff or her late husband, said the decedent's cardiac-related ...
On Tuesday morning, a Santa Fe jury took the major step of finding Astorga guilty of aggravated circumstances in the 2006 murder of Bernalillo County Sheriff Deputy James McGrane.
A jury on Monday found both the Kilgore Fire Department and apparatus manufacturer E-ONE equally at fault in a 2009 training exercise that resulted in the deaths of two firefighters.
APPLETON - Attorneys selected a jury Monday to determine whether Green Bay's Roman Catholic diocese fraudulently misrepresented the risk of a priest who went on to molest two boys in 1978.
After each witness has finished testifying, Walton asks the jury if it has any questions. The 12 jurors and three alternates - one juror has already been excused, for sleeping - represent a broad cross-section of District residents.
A Florida jury at the opening of Adam Kaufman's murder trial heard the frantic 911 call placed by the Florida real estate developer accused of strangling his wife to death in 2007, but whose defense says she died because of a previously undetected ...
By Tresa Baldas After a grueling week of trying to pick a jury, lawyers are expected to make opening statements today in the bid-rigging trial of Bobby Ferguson, longtime friend to ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
By Jessica Dye NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - A federal jury in Brooklyn on Monday found a former New York Democratic state senator, whose brief flirtation with the Republican party gridlocked the senate, guilty of embezzling money from federally funded ...
By Dan Levine | San Francisco (Reuters) - A California jury began another round of deliberations on Tuesday in a high profile trial over allegations that Google's Android mobile platform violates Oracle's intellectual property rights.
By Tresa Baldas Bobby Ferguson was a lying schemer who used his access to the highest level of city government to obtain "millions and millions and millions" of dollars worth of public contracts in aa bid-rigging scheme built on lies and deceipt, ...
Andrew Blomberg told the Harris County jury he didn't mistreat the teen, insisting he never kicked or stomped on his head or neck as prosecutors have alleged.
A Minnesota grand jury has indicted a national right-to-die group and several members for their actions in the 2007 suicide of a suburban Minneapolis woman, prosecutors announced Monday.
Corpus Christi - jury selection is expected to begin tomorrow for a family that's taking Ford Motor Company to court over a fatal accident in 2010.
AP DENVER - A jury has determined that a mental health center in Denver is partly liable for the death of a convenience store clerk who was shot by a patient that had been released by the facility.
By Kyle Martin Richmond County residents will have a greater chance of being chosen for jury duty beginning July 1. The changes in the county's jury pool start this month when jury Clerk Joan Shackelford receives a list of all potential Richmond County ...
Edison Jun Kim, possession of a controlled substance, filed by University of Texas at Dallas. Samuel Clarence Moody Jr., possession of a controlled substance, filed by Collin County Sheriff's Office.
(Charles Sykes / AP) Amy Thompson, second from right, defense attorney for William Balfour, and her team return from hearing a question from the jury during deliberations at Cook County Criminal Court, Friday, May 11, 2012, in Chicago.
In the state's first decision involving juries and social media, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has called on judges to better police jurors' use of the Internet to make sure they do not discuss cases online, and thus risk a mistrial.
At least three police officers have testified before a Bronx grand jury that is investigating the death of a black teenager shot in his bathroom by the police in February, several people briefed on the investigation said.
The jury ultimately voted for Spradlin over her allies, 33-year-old high school teacher Sabrina Thompson of New York and 26-year-old medical saleswoman Chelsea Meissner of Charleston, SC Spradlin, Meissner and Thompson worked together from the first ...
The films were screened only for the four jury members for competition section. "We missed out such a wonderful opportunity to screen some of the finest Hindi films.
Donna Wittner said she is not done fighting for justice even after a grand jury returned with no true bill Thursday in the case of the April 5 death of her 14-year-old son, Brett.
The grand jury also indicted a suspected drunken driver who prosecutors say led police on a high-speed chase in Mendenhall Valley Tuesday.
RICHLAND -- Lisa Campbell was pregnant when she first received a jury summons for Benton County Superior Court. The Richland woman was told to report in April 2011, but she was granted a one-year deferment since that was shortly after her due date.
Photo: M. Spencer Green / AP Amy Thompson, second from right, defense attorney for William Balfour, and her team return from hearing a question from the jury during deliberations at Cook County Criminal Court, Friday, May 11, 2012, in Chicago.
The Monongalia County grand jury has returned 108 indictments for May 2012. To view a complete list of the 108 people indicted, click on the link labeled 'Monongalia County Indictments', located to the right of the story.
Torence "Lil Boosie" Hatch is currently serving an eight year prison sentence on drug charges, but until the jury's ruling yesterday, ha also faced a life sentence for alleged murder. The 29-year-old rapper from Baton Rouge was on trial for the killing ...
A grand jury won't press charges against the Headland police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 33-year-old man.
That juries so often get it right is a credit to their capacity for cutting through the obscurity and obstruction that too often emanates from the bench in Canadian courtrooms.
Troubling details deemed inadmissible by the court were made public Thursday after the nine women and three men of the jury began their deliberations. Court documents laid bare the contents of Rafferty's laptop computer, which police found was used to ...
The Monongalia County Grand jury handed down 108 indictments Friday, including two for first-degree murder. Larry Mitchell, 54, and Jamie Jones, 19, are both charged with murder in connection to separate incidents.
Christopher Pullman will be tried for the third time for first-degree murder, prosecutors said after his second murder trial ended in a hung jury Friday. The 23-year-old Rock Island man was on trial in Scott County District Court, Davenport, ...
AUGUSTA -- Three men accused of breaking into a city apartment last month and threatening two women inside were among the nearly two dozen people indicted this week by a grand jury in Kennebec County Superior Court. Stephen Kirkley, 19, of Albany NY; ...


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