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Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Opening statements will begin Friday in the trial of subway rider Daniel Penny charged in the May 2023 choking death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man, in a New York City subway car. The jury was seated Wednesday. The trial is […]

Scott Dudelson/Getty Images (LOUISVILLE, KY) — Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the federal retrial of Brett Hankison, a former Louisville police officer accused of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend and their neighbors in 2020, when Taylor was shot and killed in a botched police raid. The initial trial […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — With a jury of six men and six women selected and sworn in, arguments in the gun trial of Hunter Biden get underway Tuesday morning when prosecutors and defense counsel deliver their opening statements. The president’s son stands accused of three felony charges related to his efforts to obtain […]

San Francisco Police Dept (SAN FRANCISCO) — David DePape’s state trial on charges in the 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi is underway after DePape was sentenced in his federal trial for the hammer assault. Opening statements are set to begin in the case on Wednesday for the break-in and attack at the Pelosis’ San Francisco […]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the trial of Victoria Jacobs, an Uzbekistan native who is charged with using cryptocurrency to fund Syrian-based terrorist groups and launder supporters’ contributions. It is the first-ever terrorism financing trial in the New York State court system. The six-count indictment, filed in January 2023, […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (AURORA, Colo.) — Paramedics “did nothing” to help Elijah McClain, the 23-year-old Black man who died following a police encounter, according to the Colorado prosecutor who delivered opening remarks in the trial of the two EMTs charged in McClain’s 2019 death. Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec were the Aurora Fire and Rescue […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Opening statements in the trial of hip-hop star Young Thug, who is facing gang-related charges in a sweeping RICO indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, are expected to begin on Monday. The rapper’s attorney, Brian Steel, confirmed the development to ABC News. This comes nearly 11 months after jury selection […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Opening arguments are slated to begin in Idaho Monday in the murder trial of Lori Vallow Daybell, who is accused of killing two of her children in a doomsday plot. Lori Vallow Daybell and her husband, Chad Daybell, were charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the 2019 […]