No victims, no smoking gun, Conrad Black trial told
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Conrad Black's lawyer told jurors on Tuesday that prosecutors failed to produce victims or a smoking gun in 14 weeks of trial to prove the former media baron stole millions of dollars.
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Deposed media tycoon Conrad Black stole millions from shareholders because he thought he &quot;deserved&quot; the money, a prosecutor said in closing arguments Monday at a Chicago fraud trial.
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The judge presiding over Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial refused a request from his lawyers on Wednesday to bring back to the stand and try to further discredit the star witness against the former media baron.
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Media tycoon Conrad Black is convicted on charges of fraud and obstructing justice but is cleared of others including racketeering.
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There was no murder weapon and no witness. But in the end, the jurors who decided Scott Peterson's fate said his seeming lack of sorrow and the circumstantial evidence were enough to convict and send him to death row.
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Media & professional: Fallen press baron Conrad Black stage managed  show of support from Donald Trump to fend off angry investors, a jury hears.
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Prosecutors did not abuse their subpoena power in charging a former soldier with raping an Iraqi girl and killing her family, according to a court decision announced Monday.
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The chief executive of tobacco holding company Vector Group Ltd. backed away from past admissions that smoking is a proven cause of disease during testimony on Monday in the government's racketeering trial against the industry.
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Ukraine has closed all criminal cases against acting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko because she committed no crimes, the chief prosecutor said on Friday.
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At a pretrial hearing for the Robert Blake murder case last month,   there was no rush for courtroom seats. No crowd of spectators. No cable   TV talking heads dissecting every motion.
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The testimony of more than two dozen witnesses and reams of documents shown to jurors at Conrad Black's fraud trial has not produced the telling piece of evidence that resoundingly implicates the one-time media mogul, attorneys observing the 11-week trial said.
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All but closing the books on a crime that helped give rise to the civil rights movement, a grand jury has refused to bring any new charges in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was beaten and shot after whistling at a white woman in the Mississippi Delta.
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Former media mogul Conrad Black is  guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice but  innocent of racketeering, a U.S. jury found on Friday.
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A man arrested on suspicion of murdering five women speaks of his relief at being told he faces no charges.
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The U.S. jury in the criminal fraud  trial against former media mogul Conrad Black and three  co-defendants told the judge on Tuesday it is deadlocked in  trying to reach a unanimous decision.
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A lab director who tested DNA in the Duke lacrosse rape investigation testified Wednesday that the district attorney never asked for a final report on his work, but that he and Mike Nifong did not conspire to hide evidence from the defense.
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The jury in the fraud trial of media tycoon Conrad Black is due to deliver its verdict imminently.