Karen Read’s lawyers want to bring back jurors to grill them on acquittal claims
Karen Reed’s lawyers have petitioned a Massachusetts judge to recall 12 jurors to court to support claims by four of them that they intended to acquit her of murder, more than a month after her trial was declared a mistrial. “Call the jury, your judge,” Reed’s attorney, Martin Weinberg, said during Friday’s hearing. “Listen to […]
Sen. Bob Menendez ‘has faith’ as jurors deliberate in corruption case
He praises them. New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez said he was relying on his faith on Friday as he left a Manhattan federal courthouse, where jurors in his high-stakes bribery trial had deliberated for three hours without reaching a verdict. “I have faith in God and in the jury,” the embattled Democrat said in English […]
Bob Menendez lawyer tells jurors there is no direct evidence linking senator to bribes
Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) defense attorney tried to rip a hole in the government’s case against the senator, telling jurors there was no direct evidence tying him to allegations of bribery and corruption. Adam Fee, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the same office that is prosecuting Menendez, said during closing arguments on Tuesday that the government is “asking […]
Karen Read jurors had ‘agreement’ to acquit her of killing cop boyfriend, lawyers claim
Karen Reed’s defense argued Monday that before the judge issued a mistrial, some jurors had “agreed” to find her not guilty of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend. His lawyers asked the judge to dismiss charges of second-degree murder and leaving the scene of an accident. Karen Reed speaks during the trial. Greg Durr/The Patriot […]
Karen Read supporters, critics clash outside court as jurors fail to reach verdict in police officer’s death
Karen Reed trial draws huge crowd Reed, who is charged with involvement in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Department officer John O’Keefe, has received support and opposition from people virtually tailgating outside the courthouse. (Patriot Pics/Backgrid for Fox News Digital) Supporters and critics of Karen Reed, who is on trial for the murder […]
Jurors might believe Hunter Biden is guilty and vote to acquit him anyway
The jury deciding Hunter Biden’s fate may still return a not guilty verdict even as they believe President Joe Biden’s son is guilty of the three felony firearms offenses he faces in his historic federal firearms trial. Even if prosecutors were to successfully prove that Biden purchased a .38 caliber revolver at a Delaware gun […]
Individual Claiming To Be Juror’s Cousin Posted About Trump Conviction On Social Page Before Verdict, Judge Says
Judge Juan Merchan notified lawyers on Friday that a comment reading “Trump will be guilty” had been posted to the court’s Facebook page the day before the jury was due to deliver its verdict. Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records on May 30 in a case brought by Democratic District Attorney […]
Judge Merchan alerts Trump lawyer, Manhattan DA’s office to Facebook comment purportedly made by a juror’s ‘cousin’
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Marchan said Friday that a Facebook user claiming to be the “cousin” of a juror in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial suggested the juror had advance knowledge of last week’s guilty verdict. “Today, the court became aware of comments posted on the Unified Court System’s public Facebook page and […]
Trump asks judge to lift gag order banning comments on jurors, witnesses after conviction in NY ‘hush money’ case
NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the judge overseeing his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money payments to porn actresses to lift a gag order in the case for which he was convicted last week. Before the trial began in April, Judge Juan Merchan restricted Trump’s public comments about jurors, witnesses […]
CNN’s Elie Honig Says There’s Legitimate ‘Questions’ About Whether Trump Judge Allowing Jurors To Pick Crime Is ‘Fair’
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig asserted on Tuesday that there are reasonable questions about the fairness of Judge Juan Merchan enabling jurors to choose between three crimes to convict former President Donald Trump without being in unanimous agreement. Merchan instructed the jury Wednesday that they do not need to agree on the “unlawful” means […]