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The criminal trial in The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump was held from April 15 to May 30, 2024. Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels as hush money to buy her silence over a sexual encounter between them; with costs ...
A frame from undercover video captured July 18, 2017, featuring former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan presented to a jury during Madigan's corruption trial Monday, Nov. 25, 2024.
Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of Donald Trump's company, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to lying under oath during his testimony in the ex-president’s civil fraud case ...
TOMS RIVER - In a surprise twist, testimony at the trial of Christopher Gregor in the murder of his 6-year-old son concluded Tuesday, with the defendant telling the judge he would not take the ...
Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S. 40 (1980), is a United States Supreme Court case involving the spousal privilege and its application in the law of evidence. In it, the Court held that the witness-spouse alone has a privilege to refuse to testify adversely; the witness may be neither compelled to testify nor foreclosed from testifying.
For example, when an individual with a criminal record testifies in their own trial, that past record can be presented to persuade the jury that they are the kind of person who would have done what they are accused of in the present. In a sense, the critics' worries have come to pass because relevant scholarship indicates that there is a ...
After very detailed testimony – that appeared to offer little to the state’s case – the witness stood down. The court is now on recess for lunch. Testimony will resume at 2.30pm ET.
In addition, grand jury witnesses may be prosecuted for perjury or making false statements in their testimony. In Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441 (1972), the US Supreme Court confronted the issue of the type of immunity, use or transactional, constitutionally required to compel testimony. The Court ruled that the grant of use and ...