This article is the first to analyze a pervasive and unexplored constitutional problem: the rights of crime victims against unconstitutional discrimination by juries. From the Emmett Till trial to that of Rodney King, there is a long history of juries acquitting white defendants charged with violence against black victims. Modern empirical evidence continues to show a devaluation of black victims; dramatic disparities exist in death sentence and rape conviction rates according to the race of the victim. Moreover, just as juries have permitted violence against those who allegedly violated the racial order, juries use acquittals to punish female victims of rape and domestic violence for failing to meet gender norms. Statistical studies show that the "appropriateness" of a female victim's ...
What bothers me is that they seem to be saying, 'Some people we have good enough evidence against, so we'll give them a fair trial. Some people the evidence is not so good, so we'll give them a less fair trial. We'll give them just enough due process to ensure a conviction because we know they're guilty'. That's not a fair trial, that's a show trial," [Jerrold Nadler] said. "And we've gone through our review period and we've made sure through the assessment the person is a security threat... I think it's our view that we would have the ability to detain that person," [Jeh Johnson] told Senate lawmakers. He cited the example of a confession "taken at the point of a rifle when a soldier goes in and breaks down the door, and takes a statement from a detainee" in an "inherently coercive en...
A unique case is pending before the Court of Appeals which is considering whether an acquittal was implied when a jury considered two inconsistent second-degree murder counts, finding guilty on one and not specifically specifying the other. The defense maintains an acquittal of the latter charge was implied while the prosecution maintains the man could be tried on the other charge, which he was, and that that conviction should stand.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A high-profile white-collar defendant. A parade of former associates testifying against him. Secretly recorded conversations played for the jury. This isn't the insider trading trial of one-time billionaire money managerin New York. It was the case against ex-HealthSouth Corp. CEO, whose 2005 acquittal in an accounting fraud scandal in Alabama shows that even seemingly powerful government cases can go off track.
Staff Writer America's latest "trial of the century" ended this week with a verdict for the ages - a Florida jury acquitted Casey Anthony of killing her young daughter.
Abel Gonzales' sister said last week that she and Gonzales' other relatives are "devastated" by the acquittal on murder charges for his wife, Mia Gonzales, who fatally shot her spouse nearly four years ago at the couple's Ontario home. What an outcome for such a good guy," Sandy Silva said of her brother. "He was a good man. He was a good husband, and he was an awesome father.
NEW YORK - When two police officers accused of rape were acquitted of everything except misdemeanor misconduct charges, the verdict was seen as a message. Or many of them. Now-fired officer Kenneth Moreno, who is set to be sentenced Tuesday with former partner Franklin Mata, has called the case "a lesson" about what he described as trying to help his accuser.
Despite her acquittal on murder charges, Casey Anthony - scheduled for release from jail Sunday in Orlando, Fla. - will face an uncertain future, as she may always be blamed for the death of her daughter, her lead defense investigator said. Everywhere she goes - five years from now, 10 years from now - there's going to be somebody yelling 'baby killer' to her," said Jeremiah Lyons, a private investigator hired in 2009 by Anthony's attorney, Jose Baez.
The script was written, and the actors were hired. But this was not a Broadway play or a movie. The performance was part of an elaborate scheme that a University at Buffalo researcher had concocted to win acquittal in a formal misconduct hearing run by officials of the state university system in September 2007, according to state investigators.
A critical piece of the evidence leading to that conclusion is the handwritten admission which Mr. [Mohammed Salah] gave to his Israeli interrogators on Aug. 21, 1995 (two-and-a-half years after he had been apprehended by the Israeli authorities). Mr. Salah's counsel, Michael Deutsch, claimed - as indeed Mr. Salah's Israeli counsel had done before him - that his confessions (there were several) were coerced by Israeli interrogators. Mr. Deutsch, who made a point of telling the jury he was Jewish, and whose presentations were sometimes described as "rants", also shared with them his condemnation of Israel, "a violent and racist government," and its "brutal and genocidal occupation" . Earlier, Salah's lawyer [while he was being interrogated in Israel] told me that his client had been tor...
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