| Packed courtroom for Diana hearing | | Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:45:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was only the first of many preliminary hearings into how the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed will be conducted. But judging by the banks of TV cameras at the entrance of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, and the massed ranks of journalists scribbling inside, there is still intense media interest in anything related to the princess's death. .... | |
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| | | Comair awaits union's pay cut vote | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:45:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Today's results of a ratification vote by Comair's flight attendants will determine whether the bankrupt regional airline finally wins cost cuts from the holdout union or faces a new courtroom battle that could spill onto a picket line. The last votes for or against a $7.9 million concession deal that cuts flight attendant pay by 7.5 percent will be collected by 10 a.m. today. Counting will begin at 1:30 p.m., and results could be announced as early as late afternoon or as late as Wednesday. If approved by the 1,000 members of the rank-and-file, Comair and the union will likely get the court's OK to enact the new pay scale. .... | |
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| | | Transcript of Judge Lewis' courtroom confrontation | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:46:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Transcript of video posted on YouTube of a courtroom confrontation involving 3rd District Judge Leslie Lewis on Feb. 24, 2006. Judge Lewis: "I have a prejudice concerning deer hunters and people who kill deer and transport deer that have been shot ... (cut in tape) Have you ever actually looked at a deer when they're alive?" Michael Jacobson: "Uh, huh." Lewis: "And it doesn't bother you that you can see its heart beating?" (pause) "I'm asking you a question, I expect an answer." Michael Jacobson: "Yeah." Lewis: "Were you starving? Did you need the meat?" Michael Jacobson: "I wasn't the one that shot the animal." Lewis: "Would you have stopped your friend?" Michael Jacobson: "Nope, I wasn't there at all." (cut in tape) .... | |
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| | | Convicted Felon Taped Making Threats | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 6:45:51 AM by Blog57 Team | | There is proof from Williamson County that courtroom security cannot be overlooked. A convicted child molester was caught on tape threatening to kill several people in the courtroom. It is an audio tape sent chills through the courthouse. It all started earlier this week when Jimmy Jay Jensen was ordered to serve five life sentences and two 20-year sentences for sexually assaulting a young girl over a period of seven years. Jensen is 44-years-old from Taylor. He was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child. Those are first and second degree felonies. After the sentencing, Jensen was taken back to the jail where he got on the phone, called his mother, and said... "If I'd a had a gun, I'd a shot her and the f-----g judge, you know, John Bradley too.... | |
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| | | Judge Visits Miami Courtroom Ahead Of Couey Trial | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:45:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | The judge in the murder trial of the man accused of killing Jessica Lunsford visited Miami-Dade County Tuesday, months before the trial is set to begin. Intense pretrial publicity in the rural area where 9-year-old Jessica was killed last year forced authorities to move the trial of John Couey to Miami. .... | |
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| | | Artist uses skills to tell story from courtroom | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:45:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | When news cameras are not allowed into the courtroom, artist Vicki Behringer brings headline-grabbing cases to life using watercolors. As a witness testifies, her pencil moves quickly and effortlessly across a sketchbook, and a face emerges to greet her. "It flows through me sometimes. When I tap into the flow, it just happens," she said. Behringer, who says she is in her mid-40s, has been painting Northern California courtrooms for 17 years. She is one of two artists who frequent the halls of Contra Costa Superior Court -- most recently painting the trials of convicted killers Susan Polk and Scott Dyleski. She also has covered the trials of Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. The paintings Behringer sells to newspapers and television news stations sometimes are the only visual record of witnesses or a defendant's courtroom demeanor.... | |
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| | | Second trial of Hammersla begins | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:45:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | HAGERSTOWN - After raising a preserved wooden board that allegedly was used to beat a 68-year-old Smithsburg woman to death, Washington County Deputy State's Attorney Steven Kessell whacked a chalkboard eraser off a low courtroom wall and described for a new jury the fate that Shirley P. Finfrock met on Nov. 12, 2003. Kessell's animated opening statement came after attorneys took nearly three hours to seat a jury to hear the prosecution's second attempt at its case against Jack L. Hammersla Jr., whose 2004 first-degree murder convictions and sentence of life without the possiblity of parole in Finfrock's death were overturned in February by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. The appelate court ordered a new trial, saying that witness testimony about stolen jewelry during Hammersla's July 2004 trial should not have been admitted since information leading to the discovery of pawn slips for that jewelry came from a jailhouse snitch whose statements were inadmissable.... | |
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| | | Courtroom security beefed up in Jordan's murder trial | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 2:45:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Madison County Sheriff's deputy stopped 19-year-old Ashley Richardson and her grandparents Thursday as they entered the courtroom where the triple murder trial of David Lynn Jordan was under way. The deputy made sure they weren't there to testify before letting them take a seat toward the rear of the medium-sized courtroom. .... | |
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| | | Top cop to-be in Bergen court | | Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:45:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | The man poised to be Newark's next top cop was in a Bergen County courtroom yesterday trying to overturn two municipal court convictions stemming from a dispute with police on the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The parkway police ticketed Garry McCarthy for obstructing traffic and his wife, Regina, for "unreasonable noise" after a February 2005 dispute in which the couple were handcuffed and accused of hurling profanities at the police. But the couple's attorney, David Hoffman, argued yesterday the charges were based on the fabrications of two of the parkway police officers. He said one of them, Detective Thomas Rossi, had 24 previous civil complaints filed against him in a short period of time. Hoffman said one of the best indications Rossi and Officer Roman Galloza concocted their stories was that the separate reports they filed on the incident were virtually identical.... | |
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| | | EU builds ultra-modern courtroom in Kigali | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 8:46:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Kigali, Rwanda, 09/06 - The European Union (EU) has built at a cost of 500,000 Euro, a 400-seat capacity courtroom for use by the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICCR), which is expected to be transferred here soon from Arusha in Tanzania, an EU statement said here Monday. The statement said the court with modern infrastructure of international standards, is equipped with simultaneous interpreting system. "This major investment... is in addition to other projects by the European Union to support the judicial sector, including the traditional courts the `Gacaca,`" Head of the EU delegation in Kigali, David Mac Rae, said. According to him, a well-equipped judicial system that operates correctly is crucial for the development of any society.... | |
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