Prosecutors Want Trial to Remain in Houston
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Federal prosecutors Friday urged a judge in Houston to keep the fraud trial of three former Enron Corp. executives in the energy trader's hometown, saying that a fair trial is possible.
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Lawyers for former Enron Corp. chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling yesterday urged a federal judge to transfer his blockbuster fraud trial out of Houston, citing a toxic atmosphere in which
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A judge dismissed grand jury indictments Friday that accused a Texas Supreme Court justice and his wife of involvement in an arson at their home, but prosecutors noted the couple had not been absolved and the investigation was continuing.
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Michael Jackson&#39;s trial for charges of child molestation will continue as planned, despite the defense&#39;s best efforts to postpone the proceedings.
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Wesley Snipes' federal tax-evasion trial will go forward next month in this central Florida city, despite arguments by the actor's lawyers.
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Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing the racketeering case against former Gov. George Ryan to set a firm trial date, complaining that additional delays could harm their case because witnesses might die before they have a chance to testify.
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The trial in the Kobe Bryant rape case looked set to go ahead later this month after the state's highest court ruled against prosecutors on Monday over a key piece of evidence in the high-profile case.
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Jurors in the trial of former Enron  chiefs Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling ended a third day of  deliberations without reaching a verdict on Monday, leaving a  Houston courthouse as Lay took the witness stand to defend  himself in a separate case.
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In a challenge that could make or break upcoming trials by a special military commission, defense lawyers are moving to dismiss terrorism charges against
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The murder trial of a nurse accused of killing 10 elderly patients with drug injections will be moved and delayed a few weeks because the two sides could not find enough unbiased prospective jurors in Archer County.
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Prosecutors awaited a last-minute ruling Monday on their request to move the war crimes trial of a former Bosnian army officer accused of allowing Muslim fighters to commit atrocities against Serbs and Croats.
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LOS ANGELES -- Robert Blake&#39;s defense lawyer has vowed to move ahead with the actor&#39;s murder trial despite a recent break-in at the lawyers&#39; apartment-office and the theft of a computer.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Houston woman remained on schedule Tuesday to become the 24th Texas death-row inmate to be executed this year.
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The lawyer for an American citizen jailed without charges for more than a year in Saudi Arabia says he should be set free &#151; or brought home to stand trial if the United States believes it can make a terrorism case against him.
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A federal judge has agreed to delay the trial of a former professor suspected of terrorist ties, in part because of publicity about the case during the state's U.S. Senate race and the amount of evidence that lawyers must study.
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[Presenter] Hearings on the Yukos case are to resume in a Houston court in a couple of hours. The court is expected to look today at the possibility of temporary suspension of all transactions involving the
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MONTREAL (CP) - The May 2 trial date for the former head of the federal sponsorship program is too close to a potentially damaging inquiry and may undermine his trial, his lawyer said Monday.