Couple face 'fake drowning' trial
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A couple are going on trial this week charged with staging a fake drowning incident in order to claim $1m.
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A man who spent months in jail after being accused of sexually assaulting and drowning his 3-year-old daughter before DNA evidence cleared him was awarded, with his wife, $15.5 million Thursday.
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A couple await the jury's verdict in a case where they are accused of killing a three-year-old  boy.
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VANCOUVER -- Lost in the mountains of evidence and seemingly interminable arguments made by a phalanx of lawyers at the Air India trial is the fact Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri face more than just murder charges.
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ELKHORN, Wis., Jan. 7 -- A dead woman's letter pointing the finger at her husband helps prove he poisoned her, a prosecutor said Monday as the man's murder trial began. His defense called it a touch of over-the-top theatrics she used to frame him for her suicide as punishment for his cheating.
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco recounted the state's preparations for Hurricane Katrina as she testified Tuesday in the trial of two nursing home owners charged in the drowning deaths of patients who weren't evacuated during the storm.
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Two people at the center of a criminal case against the leader of a polygamous sect may have shared a marriage, but not the same memories of it, according to what they have told jurors.
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A French couple are prosecuted for failing to stop a drunk friend driving home and killing a family in a crash.
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The case of a man who impersonated a firefighter to attack and sexually abuse a woman in her home came down to whether a jury believed he was too mentally ill to be held responsible.
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Prosecutors said Wednesday they would seek the death penalty for two men charged with killing a retired couple for their yacht by tying them to an anchor and pitching them overboard.
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A couple who used a now defunct legal loophole to lie over their son's death, are jailed for perverting the course of justice.
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A couple tell an Australian court they saw UK backpacker Peter Falconio after he is thought to have been killed.
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Jurors began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of using antifreeze to poison his wife, who left a note saying he should be a suspect in the event of her death.
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Disgraced peer Jeffrey Archer and actress Honor Blackman will serve on a the jury of a fictional rape trial.
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The jury in the trial of couple who deny murdering a mother and dumping the body by the road is to resume its deliberations.
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A British man who re-appeared five years after being presumed dead in a canoeing accident and his wife were remanded in custody Friday pending trials for fraud.
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Back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin and his wife were remanded in custody at a court Wednesday on four counts of deception.