Sentences with phrase «testified in a murder trial»

A mother and child who testified in a murder trial more than 20 years ago that led to a man's life sentence may have received $ 1,000 in reward money, some trips to a theme park and basketball games for the son, according to court filings in the case.

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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.

Ganesh Ramsaran testified in his own defense Thursday during his murder trial in Chenango County Court in Norwich.

These murders are not a premeditated, strategic type of killing, noted Hanlon, who testified in the James Holmes Colorado theater mass murder trial in Denver in July.

Examples from the exhibition include: William Moore McCulloch, who worked tirelessly for equal rights at the risk of political suicide and was recognized by President Kennedy for his important influence in passing the Civil Rights Act; Edward Brooke, one of the first Republicans to call on President Nixon to resign in light of the Watergate scandal; Mose Wright, who in 1955 testified at the trial of the men who brutally abducted, tortured, and murdered his great nephew, Emmett Till, for allegedly whistling at a white woman; and Lois Jenson, a Minnesota miner who, in 1988, filed Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. and won the first class - action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States.

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.

In Bradshaw, the accused was implicated in two murders by a former co-accused Thielen who refused to testify at trial, but agreed to re-enact the case for the policIn Bradshaw, the accused was implicated in two murders by a former co-accused Thielen who refused to testify at trial, but agreed to re-enact the case for the policin two murders by a former co-accused Thielen who refused to testify at trial, but agreed to re-enact the case for the police.