The domestic violence trial of U.S. women's soccer star Hope Solo was delayed on Tuesday after a judge in Washington state ruled that her attorney had not had adequate interview access to the two family members she is accused of assaulting.
Defense lawyers in the Colorado theater massacre case want a second court-ordered sanity examination undergone by accused gunman James Holmes barred from his upcoming murder trial, court documents on Thursday showed.
A former bodyguard of Rwanda's Paul Kagame was sentenced to life on Friday for plotting to kill the president, but he complained that he had been kidnapped and said he would appeal.
One of three Americans held in North Korea on charges of crimes against the state said he was anxiously awaiting his trial and appealed for U.S. government help to secure their freedom, a news report said on Thursday.
Israel's high court on Monday outlawed a detention center where African migrants are held without trial and ordered some 2,000 inmates there released over the next three months.
Singer Patti LaBelle took the stand on Wednesday in a federal civil trial and denied telling her 400-pound bodyguard to attack a man standing too close to her luggage at the Houston airport in March 2011.
After three gruelling days of cross examination of the defense's expert witness, the murder trial of the man known as "Blade Runner" would resume on May 5.
A lawyer representing Amanda Knox said he was confident Italy's top court would uphold a verdict clearing the American student and her former boyfriend of the 2007 murder of Briton Meredith Kercher.
Mark Strong Sr., of Thomastan, Maine was convicted of 12 counts for promoting prostitution and one count of conspiracy for his role in a sex operation with his mistress Alexis Wright's Zumba studio in the quiet Kennebunk town on Thursday.
The day included court testimony that Arias was kept away from her dead lover Travis Alexander's Mormon friends, and that their affair was kept by secret by him.
Five men accused of gang-raping and murdering a 23-year-old student in New Delhi in December will be formally charged in court on Saturday, which will set the stage for the beginning of their trial.
