WEST CHESTER — Common Pleas Judge Analisa Sondergaard seemed dismayed.

A North Carolina judge rules that race played an impermissible role in jury selection for a Black man, challenging his death sentence.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s decision to admit expert testimony and remanded the case to a ...

American Red Cross failed to convince a Detroit federal judge that a jury couldn’t side with a fired Lutheran nurse who says ...

U.S. Attorney's Office wants to present evidence of physical therapy business' "profits and wealth," while defense calls such evidence irrelevant.

Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial ...

Former federal prosecutor William Shipley, who represented several January 6 defendants, writes that "bench trials," in which clients choose to have their fate decided by a judge instead of a jury, ...

A jury in April 2023 convicted Perry of murder ... laws of self-defense and said that Garza "demonstrated unethical and biased misuse of his office in prosecuting Daniel Scott Perry." ...

Part of Bowman’s final appeal was that he didn’t get a vigorous defense because his lawyer was racist and worried about what a jury in 2002 South Carolina would think about a Black man and a ...

With the seemingly overwhelming evidence against Mangione, jury nullification could be what gets him acquitted or results in a mistrial, so the defense will lean into this, he said. In most cases, ...