Sentences with phrase «evidence in the murder trial»

State Police investigator Kelly Strack holds a package containing toll tickets entered in evidence in the murder trial of Christopher Porco on Monday.

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If Durst goes to trial on murder charges in Los Angeles, evidence from the HBO series is likely to come up, though the New York Times notes that Durst's lawyers will likely challenge the admissibility of any recordings from The Jinx.

In May, while the gun was being held as evidence for the trials of Trackling and Bannister (the girl lived, and the assailants would be found guilty of attempted murder and attempted armed robbery in July 1996), Trackling did something not unusual for a young prisoneIn May, while the gun was being held as evidence for the trials of Trackling and Bannister (the girl lived, and the assailants would be found guilty of attempted murder and attempted armed robbery in July 1996), Trackling did something not unusual for a young prisonein July 1996), Trackling did something not unusual for a young prisoner.

THE BRONX — A man whose 2013 murder conviction was vacated in April because prosecutors withheld key evidence at trial will not face another trial, according to the Bronx District Attorney.

According to him, the lawyers for Gregory Afoko — the suspect standing trial for the murder — must be interested in this evidence.

ON THE eve of the verdict of the high - profile trial in Perugia, Italy, in which Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are charged with the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, DNA evidence brought by the prosecution is being questioned by nine US specialists in DNA forensics.

Two seed pods from a desert tree are the star witnesses in a murder trial in Arizona, in what is thought to be the first case in which the genetic fingerprint of a plant has been used as evidence.

For what may be the first time, fMRI scans of brain activity have been used as evidence in the sentencing phase of a murder trial.

(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.)

The city was torn into moonlit strips — the dour Castle, the High Kirk where Reform preachers stoked hearts and minds, the dark maw of the Grassmarket and the tenements sliding down the long spine to the palace where Jamie Saxt (but six years our elder) slept uneasily amidst the ghosts of his many murdered regents, his fantasies of sorcerers... On Inchcombe island the abandoned monastery was a black ship with its cargo of souls, going nowhere... In the nearby Auld Kirk of North Berwick the witch trials were proceeding by that most reliable proof: evidence under torture.

When we last saw Theo Boone, he uncovered key evidence in a landmark murder trial, ensuring that justice was served.

Whilst you are investigating the murders you will obtain evidence and statements from classmates and the environment — these can be used in the trials in various ways.

It's a fun little game split between socialising with a reasonably charismatic cast, followed by a grizzly murder that forces you to investigate crime scenes looking for clues and evidence, and climaxing in a classroom trial in an attempt to discover the identity of the guilty.

A court worker unloads evidence before judges during a trial for seven men accused of murdering 26 - year - old sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora in 2013.

Judges review evidence during the murder trial of seven defendants accused of killing sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora in 2013.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ordered a new trial for a B.C. man convicted of two counts of first - degree murder in a case involving the admissibility of hearsay evidence and threshold reliability.

The committee heard evidence from a juror in a trial that involved the murder of a young woman by her boyfriend.

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

The committee also heard from one of the jurors from the Paul Bernardo murder trial who testified that she has to watch «those girls being raped and tortured — wasn't just watching evidence; it was sitting in a box where I felt I couldn't do anything to save them.

Not only did Frey build a case for witness misconduct and evidence tampering by two prosecution witnesses in a Louisiana murder trial that landed Kelly's client, Jimmy Duncan, on death row, but he even conducted an interview with another prosecution expert witness.

The defence presented no evidence in the second - degree murder trial of Raymond Cormier, closing arguments to be heard Tuesday.

Addressing this issue, particular value should be attached to those cases where the defendant provides evidence in the form of a witness statement or is prepared to give evidence at any subsequent trial, and does so, with added force where the information either produces convictions for the most serious offences, including terrorism and murder, or prevents them, or which leads to disruption to or indeed the break up of major criminal gangs.

Shortly afterwards, the Old Bailey aborted another murder trial because witness evidence had been heard by a jury, from anonymous individuals, in apparent contravention of this ruling.

Activity data recovered from an Apple Watch will be reportedly become key evidence for the prosecution in an Australian murder trial.

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.