Trial

William G. Porter, 26, is charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment. Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake repeatedly stated the officers will get a fair trial in the city.

A federal appeals court on Monday said Louisiana could continue plans to try Angola 3 member Alfred Woodfox for a third time in the 1972 murder of a prison guard.

A judge has delayed the trial of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of killing nine Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church in a race-inspired shooting earlier this year. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel agreed to push back the trial to no later than January to give both defense attorneys and federal prosecutors respective time […]

UPDATED: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 5:00 PM ET According to the Associated Press, Judge Barry Williams announced Tuesday that Officer William Porter will be the first officer charged in the unlawful arrest and death of Freddie Gray to go on trial. Porter was accused of “failing to provide of request medical care” for Gray during […]

UPDATE: Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:10 AM EST: A judge has ruled that trials for the six officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest and death will not be moved from Baltimore. This is a developing story. ————— As a second hearing for the officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray begins Thursday morning, a judge will […]

Randall Kerrick, the police officer charged with killing Jonathan Ferrell, said he thought he was going to die during the encounter.

A judge has denied Suge Knight’s request to dismiss his fatal hit-and-run case after the key witness refused to identify him, PEOPLE reports. Knight and his lawyer, Thomas Mesereau, were in front of Superior Court Judge Stephen A. Marcus in Los Angeles Tuesday when Marcus declared the case would proceed. Mesereau argued the case should be dropped after […]

Arrested at 17, Carlos Montero has been in Riker’s Island for 7 years without being convicted http://t.co/aMP8eaWNs0 via @dailykos — JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) June 16, 2015 A 24-year-old Manhattan man has spent nearly seven years in New York City’s Rikers Island jail awaiting trial, a jaw-dropping record for pretrial incarceration that is unlikely to end soon, […]

A New York medical examiner has concluded what many suspected after watching video of Eric Garner’s fatal police encounter: The Staten Island man died as the result of an illegal police chokehold. NBC’s New York affiliate has the story: The city medical examiner has ruled the death of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father whose death in police […]

The trial of the man charged with fatally shooting Renisha McBride began this week. Theodore Wafer‘s lawyer has tried entering evidence into the proceedings to defame McBride’s character. Roland Martin talks with Rashad Robinson and Dream Hampton about the McBride shooting trial on “NewsOne Now.” Listen to their analysis of the trail below. Be sure to listen to “NewsOne Now” with Roland […]

Saturday, a Florida jury  found Michael Dunn guilty of three counts of attempted murder and another count stemming from his shooting into a car full of teenagers, an incident which led to the death of  17-year-old Jordan Davis. Jurors didn’t, however, convict Dunn of murder for killing Davis. Attorney Eboni Williams and Judge Kevin Ross joined […]

John Philips, the lawyer for the family of Jordan Davis, joined Roland Martin Friday to discuss the trial of Michael Dunn, Jordan’s killer, and the possibility of an acquittal in the case. Philips told Martin that the Davis family is anxiously awaiting a verdict. “It’s day 448 since they lost their son,” said Phillips. “They’re ready […]