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Lawyers, Crown battle over race-based jury question

Rakhi Ruparelia, associate professor at the University of Ottawa faculty of law, says the case shows how difficult it has been to move past the 25-year-old Parks question. The Ontario Superior Court o... read more

Wife's death was 'sum of years of suffering,' Cadotte murder trial told

For the Crown ... defence lawyer Elfriede Duclervil asked jurors to focus on how Cadotte’s mental state had deteriorated during Lizotte’s decade-long battle with the disease and the toll ... read more

What happens when billionaires battle gossipmongers? Prepare for explosions.

Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, blasted his disdain into the maw of the Internet, essentially delivering the equivalent of a lawyer’s opening statement with the entire planet sitting in the ... read more

New Orleans man who shot three black men in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is sentenced to 10 years

Roland Bourgeois Jr pleaded guilty to two federal criminal counts last October in a deal with prosecutors, ending a years-long legal battle ... over. The officer who fatally shot Glover was convicted ... read more

How racial bias likely impacted the Stanley verdict

Indeed, in R v Rogers, the trial judge stated that “racism will be at work on the jury panel as soon as the victim is described as an Aboriginal.” The judge ruled that a race-based ... questions surro... read more

American presidents: 9 facts you (probably) didn’t know

However, the process whereby the Continental Congress elected a president continued for over ... the 1775 battle of Quebec (which the British won). While the war ground on, Burr not only fought for in... read more

Experts, Indigenous advocates renew call for more diversity on juries

During jury selection, the Crown and defence ... Toronto lawyer Jessica Orkin said problems with Canada’s jury system can’t be solved with one fix. She represented an Aboriginal man, Clifford Kokopena... read more

How Videos of Police Brutality Traumatize African Americans and Undermine the Search for Justice

The images also torment him with questions ... Florida jury that deliberated the wrongful death case awarded the family just $4 in damages. In response to the ruling, the Hill family lawyer ... read more

Travis Vader's lawyer says new suspects will be named as murder trial begins in Edmonton court

In dramatic opening statements, both the Crown and defence fired their first volleys in what is expected to be a protracted courtroom battle over the next five weeks ... Lyle and Marie McCann.” Defenc... read more

'Proof Of Collusion' Author Seth Abramson: Evidence Against Trump Will 'Blow A Jury's Hair Back'

These are the haunting questions that would have sounded completely ... There's no particular reason why any new attorney general appointee from Donald Trump should have to take over the Russian inves... read more

Trump vs. the Constitution

Special counsel Robert Mueller is determined to interview him and has reportedly threatened to issue a grand jury subpoena if Trump refuses. The most dangerous questions Trump faces ... upheld the ind... read more

Evidence questions remain as trial set for Outlaws leader

An attorney for Randy "Mad" Yager argued that a traffic stop in September 1994 was not legal and evidence found in the car should be suppressed. That evidence included the bloody vest of a murdered He... read more