Judge Won&#39;t Throw Out Peterson Charges
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A judge on Monday denied a defense motion to dismiss the charges against Scott Peterson, saying the evidence presented so far in his murder trial was enough to justify a conviction if the jury so decides.
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LOS ANGELES: A US judge dealt a double blow to Michael Jackson yesterday, refusing to throw out the child molestation charges against him or to delay his trial.
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A military judge on Monday rejected a motion to dismiss charges against the suspected ringleader of abuses at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison after lawyers questioned whether he could get a fair trial.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s defense lawyers rested their case Tuesday without calling him to the stand. Judge Alfred A. Delucchi told jurors the prosecution would call eight rebuttal witnesses Wednesday.
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The judge in the Scott Peterson trial Monday rejected a defence request to move the case to another community and pick a whole new jury to decide whether Peterson should get the death penalty for killing his pregnant wife.
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Michael Jackson may consider a California district attorney an old enemy, but the court doesn&#39;t. The judge in Jackson&#39;s child-molestation case rejected arguments Thursday that Santa Barbara County DA Tom Sneddon was &quot;blinded by zeal.
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A judge refused Wednesday to dismiss the case against a man charged with murdering the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
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REDWOOD CITY - In the Scott Peterson murder trial the defense has been trying to explain Peterson&#39;s actions on the day he was arrested.
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The lead defense lawyer in the Scott Peterson murder trial, Mark Geragos, urged jurors on Tuesday to put aside any hatred for his client&#39;s boorish ways.
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The judge presiding over the Scott Peterson murder trial dismissed another juror today, after taking a similar action on Tuesday, when a juror was ousted for misconduct.
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Now that a jury has reached a decision on Scott Peterson&#39;s fate, can we not see Gloria Allred every blessed day, at least for a little while?
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Scott Peterson&#39;s murder trial resumed Monday with his attorneys defending the assertions of an expert who testified about when Laci Peterson&#39;s fetus died.
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Scott Peterson wasn&#39;t trying to flee the country when he was arrested holding nearly $15,000 in cash and his brother&#39;s driver&#39;s license while driving a Mercedes-Benz he had recently purchased in his mother&#39;s name, his parents testified Monday.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s own claim that he was out fishing near where his pregnant wife&#39;s body later turned up is proof enough to convict
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Mark Geragos, Scott Peterson&#39;s attorney, may have promised jurors more than he could deliver, critics argue. ( AP/Tony Avelar, Pool).
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The federal judge who presided over the trial of former Gov. Don Siegelman and ex-HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy refused on Monday to throw out their convictions on government corruption charges.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- A judge today denied a defense motion to dismiss the charges against Scott Peterson, saying the evidence presented so far in his murder trial was enough to justify a conviction if the jury so decides.