Bulletin: Rajesh and Nupur Talwar: India; Case called "a tragedy of errors"...
"Like many in India, I was transfixed by the news of the double murder of 14-year old Aarushi Talwar and the Talwar’s live-in household help, Hemraj, in Noida. I watched in disbelief, and later...
View ArticleCameron Todd Willingham. Texas;...Another excellent Slate post by Jeremy...
NOTE FROM LAURA HELMUTH, PUBLISHER OF SLATE: "Our most ambitious and important story of the week was Jeremy Stahl’s Fresca on the trials of Ed Graf, a man who was convicted of killing his sons in a...
View ArticleBulletin: Douglas Prade; Ohio; He wins right to another hearing over DNA...
"Former Akron Police Captain Douglas Prade has won another round of court hearings on DNA evidence in his bid for a new trial in the 1997 shooting death of his ex-wife. It marks the second time in...
View ArticleBulletin: Daniel Green: Massachussets; Judge mulls verdict in alleged shaken...
"There are no witnesses to what happened to a 3-month-old baby that caused bleeding on his brain and both retinas; bruising on his armpits, one leg and the top of his spine; and an injury to his...
View ArticleBulletin: (Grits for Breakfast); Texas; Ed Graf; Cameron Todd Willingham;...
"Two recent high-profile news stories shined a spotlight on the use of incentivized jailhouse snitches to supplement flawed arson science in high-profile murder cases. Jeremy Stahl, Slate, "The Trials...
View ArticleBulletin: Up-coming New York conference to include a few voices which do not...
"This fall’s NYC Abusive Head Trauma/Shaken Baby Syndrome Conference, sponsored jointly by the Queens County District Attorney’s Office and the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, will...
View ArticleBulletin: Joseph Scott Pemberton: Phillipines; U.S. Marine Testifies in...
"A United States Marine accused of killing a transgender woman in the Philippines acknowledged on Monday that he had choked her until she was no longer moving, but he stopped short of saying that he...
View ArticleBulletin: Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton; Philippines: 'Phillippine Star;...
"A forensic expert testified in court yesterday that transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude was possibly still alive when Pemberton left him in a motel room here in October last year. Rachel Fortun, a...
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Bulletin: Henry Keogh; Australia; Lawyers for alleged murderer say his third...
"The Advertiser can reveal counsel for Mr Keogh have filed an abuse of process application with the Supreme Court, seeking to derail their client’s third Supreme Court trial scheduled in May 2016. It...
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Bulletin: Henry Keogh: 'Adelaide Now' story based on court documents filed by...
Henry Keogh’s third murder trial is doomed to fail lawyers claim.Supreme Court documents reveal prosecutors still intend to call evidence from Dr Colin Manock at Keogh’s trial over the death of fiance...
View ArticleBulletin: Robert Lee Stinson; Milwaukee; Alleged bogus chew mark case: "A...
"A federal appeals courtroom has thrown out a civil rights lawsuit by a person wrongfully imprisoned for 23 years who claimed a detective and two dentists conspired to border him with bogus chew mark...
View ArticleBullletin: Frits Van Beelen; South Australia; Convicted murderer wants...
"Convicted murderer Frits Van Beelen has moved to have his conviction overturned, 25 years after being freed from a 17-year jail term for killing teen Deborah Leach. Van Beelen’s appeal will target...
View ArticleBulletin: Ivan Henry: British Columbia: Ian Mulgrew: Long-secret letter lands...
"On the eve of his landmark trial seeking compensation for wrongful conviction, Ivan Henry has inadvertently learned that the woman who fingered him had “strong emotional ties” with the lead Vancouver...
View ArticleBulletin: Rajesh and Nupur Talwar: India; Their Defence lawyer Tanveer Ahmed...
"The Talwars were “absolutely framed” in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi, claims the dentist couple’s lead defence lawyer who also questions the investigation saying it had “become too...
View ArticleBulletin: Daniel Green; Massachusetts: Judge convicts him of severely...
"A judge has convicted a man of severely injuring his son, then 3 months old. Lawrence Superior Court Judge Mary Ames delivered the verdict Monday in the bench trial of Daniel Green, 30, the Salem News...
View ArticleBulletin: Sandra Higgins; Ireland; (Publisher's note: Oooops! News of the...
"A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a childminder accused of causing serious harm to a ten-month-old baby. Registered child-minder Sandra Higgins, 34, of The Beeches, Drumgola Wood,...
View ArticleBulletin: Gugsa Abraham "Abe" Dabela: Connecticut: Family raises questions...
A new website has launched as part of the investigation into the death of Redding lawyer Gugsa Abraham "Abe" Dabela . Dabela was found dead in his car in April 2014 of a gunshot wound to the head....
View ArticleBulletin: United States Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton; Philippines;...
"The camp of United States Marine Lance Corporal Joseph Scott Pemberton, who is charged with the murder of Filipino transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude in October last year, claimed that the...
View ArticleBulletin: David Harold Eastman; Australia; Stay application (Bid to avoid...
"A bid to avoid retrial by David Harold Eastman is expected to be heard in February. Meanwhile, a decision on whether to further relax the murder accused's bail conditions will be delivered on Friday....
View ArticleBulletin: United States Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton: Philippines; Lawyers...
"The lawyers of the family of slain transgender Jeffrey “Jennifer” Laude said a settlement with the camp of US Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton is impossible now that both parties have rested...
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