'Abuse' case focus on witnesses
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Prosecution witnesses face cross-examination over nine charges in the Iraq  'abuse case.'
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Expert witnesses have a problem the moment they step foot into a courtroom. They try to radiate integrity and the kind of honesty that comes with an intellectual devotion to their chosen field. But everyone knows they are on the stand to collect a check.
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Most potential jurors for the Michael Jackson child abuse trial have heard about the case, underlining the difficulty the pop superstar could face in getting a fair hearing.
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The prosecution in Michael Jackson's child molestation case has accused the defense of abusing the judicial process with sweeping demands for medical records of the alleged victim and his family, including gynecological records for his mother and information on his 3-month-old brother.
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The first defence witness in the war crimes trial of  Slobodan Milosevic trial is set to take the stand.
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The government has set the stage for the testimony of a former HealthSouth Corp. executive who could be their most important witness in the fraud trial of ousted chief executive Richard Scrushy.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A military judge hearing evidence in the abuse cases at Abu Ghraib prison demanded yesterday that prosecutors speed up the investigation.
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Lawyers in the Michael Jackson case  argue whether evidence should be discussed in an open court.
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Journalists are insisting help is needed for those required to bear witness to the atrocities of war.
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A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court. There have been hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists paid tens of thousands of dollars. The judge himself even hired an expert to help him make sense of it all.
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FORT HOOD, Texas - A lawyer for a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal claims that public positions taken by President Bush and military leaders have made it impossible for his client to get a fair trial by a military jury.
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urveillance tapes made last year in a Brooklyn matrimonial judge&#39;s office and played publicly by prosecutors for the first time yesterday show the judge, Gerald P. Garson, offering a lawyer detailed instructions on how to argue a case ...
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Juries in child sex abuse and theft cases could be told the previous convictions of defendants.
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Defense lawyers on Wednesday sought to  poke holes in a government witness's story of an angry  confrontation with a former Enron Corp. accountant charged with  fraud after the witness disclosed a secret deal with Merrill  Lynch at the heart of the first criminal trial of former  employees of the fallen energy company.
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Witness intimidation is having a profound effect on the criminal justice system in N.J. and across the country.
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In a calculated risk rarely seen in a federal courtroom, three defendants accused of helping a convicted terrorist communicate deadly messages to overseas followers spent several weeks on the witness stand testifying in their own defense.
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The 'disappearance' of a witness who helped convict a former police torturer raises fears that the nightmare isn't over