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Glanville denied the motion [64] and the trial was paused on July 1 until a higher court ruled on the recusal. [65] Two weeks later, Glanville was recused and the trial resumed under the direction of Shukura L. Ingram. [66] [11] Ingram recused herself three days later, citing "an improper relationship between a defendant and one of her former ...
DPP v Camplin (1978) [1] was an English criminal law appeal to the House of Lords in 1978. Its unanimous judgment helped to define the main limits of defence of provocation chiefly until Parliament replaced the defence with one of "loss of control" in the Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
In Scotland, a preliminary hearing is a non-evidential pre-trial diet in cases to be tried before the High Court of Justiciary, conducted to enable the court to determine whether both parties, the prosecution and the defence, are ready to proceed to trial. The hearing may also address ancillary procedural matters.
Detention before charge is commonly referred to as custody and continued detention after conviction is referred to as imprisonment. Because imprisonment without trial is contrary to the presumption of innocence, pretrial detention in liberal democracies is usually subject to safeguards and restrictions. Typically, a suspect will be remanded ...
The misconduct allegations against Willis first surfaced in a court filing by Mike Roman, a former high-ranking Trump aide who is now one of Trump’s 14 remaining co-defendants in Georgia.
The defendant Anthony Faretta was accused of grand theft in Los Angeles County, California. Well before the trial began, the defendant requested permission to represent himself. Questioning by the judge revealed that he had once represented himself in a criminal case and that he believed that the public defender's office was under a heavy case ...
Court orders that prohibited two criminal defendants from possessing firearms while they awaited trial were constitutional because they were in line with past restrictions on firearms, a federal ...
Court restrictions barring two pretrial criminal defendants from possessing guns were constitutional, a federal court ruled Monday. Firearm restrictions on defendants awaiting trial are ...