Sentences with phrase «about a murder trial»

Agatha Christie's tweedy sleuth Miss Marple is a juror with a hunch about a murder trial.

The Face of an Angel centers on a director (Bruhl), who is hired to make a film about a murder trial in Italy, but ends up finding love with a young bartender in the process.

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Resnick wrote two books about the murders and the trial, 1994's Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted and 1996's Shattered: In the Eye of the Storm.

Few shows have taken the Internet by storm like Making a Murderer, Netflix's true crime documentary about Steven Avery's murder trial.

The trial of O.J. Simpson was only partly about one particular man accused of murder.

If jurors find a defendant guilty of murder, they can take testimony about postpartum issues into consideration during the trial's punishment phase.

The acquittal of a Baltimore police officer charged with murder and six other crimes in the death of Freddie Gray has dealt a devastating blow to the prosecution, legal experts say, and raises questions about whether the state should press ahead with the trials of four other officers.

An appeals court in Manhattan ruled that a reporter for The New York Times could not be subpoenaed to testify at a coming trial about her jailhouse interview with a man accused in the decades - old murder of a 4 - year - old known as Baby Hope.

Dean Martin had his final leading role in this obscure drama about a San Francisco lawyer defending a black militant (Thalmus Rasulala) on trial for murder.

Longo agrees to help Mike write a book about the murders as long as Mike will only publish the book after the trial and he will teach Longo how to write.

He has a sagelike quality, spinning yarns about a woman on trial for murdering her husband or invoking Euclid to make moral sense of how to handle the Confederate delegation en route to Washington, using these ostensible digressions to illuminate truths he presents as self - evident.

Opening Shot: A close - up of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) staring ahead as we hear a voice over of Grace talking about all the things she's been called in her life, especially during her murder trial and imprisonment.

(The press materials understandably keep mum about Basic Instinct but are not at all reluctant to describe the murder trial as «reminiscent of the romantic intrigue contained in such courtroom movie classics from the late 1950s as Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining momurder trial as «reminiscent of the romantic intrigue contained in such courtroom movie classics from the late 1950s as Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining moMurder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining movies.)

A week after a verdict was reached in Trayvon Martin's murder trial, «Fruitvale Station,» a drama about the killing of a young African - American man, continues to score big at the specialty box office.

The Girl from Monaco (R for sexuality and profanity) Romantic comedy about a criminal defense attorney (Fabrice Luchini) who travels to Monaco to handle a murder trial only to end up competing for the affections of a perky, TV weather girl (Louise Bourgoin) with his own bodyguard (Roschdy Zem).

What You Need To Know: We don't know about you, but between the «Paradise Lost» trilogy and 2012's «West Of Memphis,» we start to question about how much more there is to be said about the shocking West Memphis Three murder trial and subsequent fight for justice that's been ongoing for the past twenty years.

Severely disfigured facially, plagued by blinding migraines, and subjected to power grabs by the board of seven old timers whose disdain for him is an open secret, David finds himself relaying his unbelievable story to a psychologist (Kurt Russell) from prison, about to stand trial for murder.

Amalric speaks frankly about the stakes involved in collaborating with wife Stéphanie Cléau on the film, in which an illicit affair leads to a very public murder trial.

It's about a young Ivy League grad who ends up working as a sports reporter in Greenwood, Mississippi; covers a promising high school football player he thinks is destined for the NFL; then comes back to town six years later when the player is on trial for murder.

«Spirit of Justice will see Phoenix travel to Khura'in Village, where he reunites with Maya Fey and also ends up getting involved in deadly trials about murder.

When I cite an article like the New York Times» «Secret «Kill List» Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will,» New York Times, 29 May 2012, liberals either claim ignorance («I don't know what «secret kill list» you're talking about») or deny the facts outright («that's just Republican propaganda, president Obama isn't murdering U.S. citizens without a trial!»).

Via Siouxsie Law I came across an interesting recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Georgia that reversed a murder conviction because the trial court allowed the prosecution to introduce «irrelevant and highly prejudicial character evidence» about a teenage defendant's «goth» lifestyle.

We have previously blogged about the trial court decision where a jury found Forcillo guilty of attempted murder in the death of 18 - year - old Sammy Yatim («Yatim»).

There is a chilling tale in the UK press this week about the trial of a man accused of abducting and murdering a child.

Canada Laura Babcock's murder trial to hear testimony about her financial records, Canadian Press http://legalnews.findlaw.ca/news-id-479957/ Sentencing arguments today for man convicted of murder in death of Montreal clerk, Canadian Press Muslim FBI agent who helped Canada wants to reclaim his religion from jihadis, Canadian Press

And even though Confidential doesn't identify the defendant by name, saying «murder trial» and «beginning mid-July» probably is sufficient for the defense to know what case he's talking about.

Today at Legal Blog Watch, I have a post about the Christopher McCowen Murder Trial Blog, following the trial on Cape Cod of McCowen for the 2002 murder of former fashion writer Christa WorthiMurder Trial Blog, following the trial on Cape Cod of McCowen for the 2002 murder of former fashion writer Christa WorthinTrial Blog, following the trial on Cape Cod of McCowen for the 2002 murder of former fashion writer Christa Worthintrial on Cape Cod of McCowen for the 2002 murder of former fashion writer Christa Worthimurder of former fashion writer Christa Worthington.

This is a 1999 film adaptation a book about a former Japenese soldier put on trial for the murder his neighbour.

Ron Sylvester, the Wichita Eagle reporter who we wrote about last May for his Twitter coverage of a capital murder trial, this week won permission from U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten to send live posts from the courtroom.

The Appeal Court believes that there was «independent» evidence at the trial to suggest that Oland's «false statement» to St. John police about what jacket he had been wearing the night his father was murdered was «concocted».

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Miller also posts about Adnan Syed — his murder case was the subject of the first season of Serial — who was granted a new trial based on new evidence unearthed by the podcast.

We wrote here in October about the Christopher McCowen Murder Trial Blog set up by the Cape Cod Times.

Over the past 10 years, Mr. Clifford, 44, has worked on about a dozen murder trials and defended some of Ottawa's most notorious accused.

At trial, the prosecution's main «evidence» was its claim that Hardin and Clark committed the 1992 murder as part of a Satanic sacrifice — this was despite the fact that the state's own expert acknowledged that nothing about the crime was consistent with a Satanic ritual sacrifice.

Given what the Supreme Court has done here, on what basis do we criticize a judge who, say, gave a media interview about the emotional difficulty of trying a gruesome sexual assault and murder trial?

Slansky v. Canada (Attorney General) et al. 2013 FCA 199 Evidence — Witnesses — Privilege — General — Public interest privilege Following a murder trial, counsel for the defence (Slansky) filed a complaint about the trial judge with the Canadian Judicial Council (CJC).

Boston Government Investigations & White Collar Defense group partner Brian Kelly is quoted in this article about former FBI supervisor Robert Fitzpatrick, who faces sentencing this week for lying on the stand at James «Whitey» Bulger's murder trial.

How can there be issues with overcharging in murder trials if the jury must be instructed about the lesser included offenses?

In a February 4, 2010, article in the Toronto Globe and Mail about what is going to be a «high - profile» trial for murder, under the headline

If his dad had gotten life insurance, Simba would a) be the beneficiary and inherit some money; b) already had had the conversation with Mufasa about Scar's murderous plans so he would have peace of mind knowing it wasn't his fault; and c) be a star witness in Scar's murder trial.

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By the time Nikolas Cruz goes on trial for 17 counts of murder, and 17 counts of attempted murder, only his defense lawyers will still be arguing about a disordered mind and diminished culpability.

Meanwhile in Boston, after decades on the FBI's «Ten Most Wanted List,» James «Whitey» Bulger Jr. was about to stand trial on 32 counts of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, weapons and murder charges.

The petition has argued the Folbigg convictions were unreasonable in light of more recent knowledge about children's sudden deaths, particularly relating to cardiac conditions, and the trial's acceptance of a default diagnosis of murder after incorrect evidence about the incidence of four children's deaths in one family.