#criminal-trial

#criminal-trial

The defence lawyer of Frank Stronach is continuing her cross examination of one of the seven female complainants in the sex assault trial of the Canadian billionaire. On Thursday, the first day of the trial, Leora Shemesh zeroed in on what she suggested were inconsistencies in what the complainant told court that day and previous statements she had made. The woman, who had been employed by Stronach and whose identity is protected by a publication ban, alleged she was sexually assaulted by Stronach in 1981 in a Toronto condo.

After a previous jury failed to reach a verdict in September, a second one this week found a Santa Rosa man guilty of second-degree murder in a fatal stabbing outside a local bar three years ago. A jury of six men and six women deliberated for a day before convicting Braulio Garcia III of killing Asante VanDyke in the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 2023.

A man accused of causing the explosion of an ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) camera in south-east London has told a court he does not recall where he was or what he was doing at the time of the incident. A video has also been released by the Met Police showing the moment the camera exploded in CCTV footage. Retired electrical appliances engineer Kevin Rees is on trial at Woolwich Crown Court accused of damaging the camera in Willersley Avenue, Sidcup.

A domestic abuser has been found guilty of murdering her partner in a hotel room. James Self, 47, died six weeks after Polly Murphy attacked him in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, on 8 November 2023. Essex Police said Murphy had inflicted a "sustained campaign of abuse" upon Self and was "increasingly volatile" in the weeks leading up to the murder. Murphy, 42, of Hornsey Lane Gardens in Highgate, London, will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on 4 February.

Paris prosecutors on Monday requested six-year prison sentences for two former narcotics squad police officers who replaced confiscated cocaine with sugar paste. The defendants, Thierry C, 60, and Christophe J, 50, were members of the French capital's nighttime anti-drugs taskforce but were expelled from the police following their arrests in December 2022. Along with prison sentences, the prosecutor requested the confiscation of €600,000 from the bank account of Thierry C. and a €200,000 fine against Christophe J.

My honest-held belief at the time from the previous incident further down the road is that he's willing to in my opinion, he's trying to kill me, he's trying to hurt me, he's trying to seriously harm me,

The shooting, captured on video, occurred on the 6900 block of International Boulevard in East Oakland. Black accused 55-year-old Roger Johnson, of Hayward, of stepping on his shoe and showed Johnson the butt of an AR-style weapon he had at his waistband, which the defense said was meant to deter Johnson from escalating it into a fight. Instead, Johnson attempted to grab the gun and Black allegedly shot at Johnson during the fracas, killing Johnson's friend, 55-year-old James Stephens, according to court records.

During testimony Wednesday, as a bespectacled O'Connor, clad in a black sweater, looked on alongside her attorney, a witness identified as Jane Doe 11 answered questions from Deputy District Attorney Morgan Willis. The questions were oriented toward establishing O'Connor as a mastermind of the illicit parties, and to bolster a prosecution argument that O'Connor's sexual fascination with the children fueled the alleged crimes.

A French court on Thursday sentenced a doctor to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, in an alleged attempt to discredit co-workers. Frédéric Péchier, 53, worked as an anaesthetist in two clinics in the eastern city of Besançon, when patients went into cardiac arrest in suspicious circumstances between 2008 and 2017. Twelve could not be resuscitated. Péchier's youngest alleged victim, four-year-old Teddy, survived two cardiac arrests during a routine tonsil surgery in 2016.

Prosecutors accuse the defendant of murder and five counts of attempted murder. He is alleged to have coerced vulnerable teenagers online into harming themselves; in one case, a 13-year-old is believed to have died by suicide. In total, prosecutors list 204 offences said to have been committed when the accused was a minor or young adult, involving more than 30 child and teenage victims.

With four serving gardaí and a retired superintendent facing serious charges of unlawfully interfering in road-­traffic prosecutions, it is not just their reputations that are on the stand.

Thalha Jubair 19, from East London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall in the West Midlands spoke only to confirm their names and enter pleas at the brief hearing. They are both charged with conspiring to commit unauthorised acts against Transport for London (TfL) under the Computer Misuse Act. In addition, Mr Flowers is accused of attempting to hack computer systems belonging to California-based Sutter Health and another US company, SSM Healthcare Corporation. Mr Jubair has also been charged with failing to provide passwords for his devices.

On Monday, Paul Doyle, 53, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court by videolink from prison for a 30-minute administrative hearing ahead of his trial next month. Last month he entered not guilty pleas to dangerous driving, affray, 18 charges of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, nine counts of causing GBH with intent, and two counts of wounding with intent.

WARNING: This story details allegations of child abuse. A forensic pathologist has testified the autopsy he performed on a 12-year-old who was in the care of two Burlington, Ont., women was unable to determine the boy's cause of death. However, Dr. Michael Pickup said he could also not rule out possible causes of death, including hypothermia, or cardiac arrest linked to severe malnourishment.