Peter Liang, the NYPD officer who is accused of shooting and killing Brooklyn resident Akai Gurley, “did nothing” to help Gurley after the shooting, a witness testified in court yesterday. Liang is charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide and faces up to 15 years in prison.
If you'd like to hear Tiny Doo's mixtape No Safety, you can do so here. But be aware that by listening to it, you may somehow be implicated in nine California shootings for which 14 men are about to stand trial. Tiny Doo himself is one of those men, and even prosecutors admit that the only crime he committed is…
A Philadelphia man who fatally shot his sister-in-law in April of 2007 had been awaiting trial for seven years before he was transferred today to a state-run nursing home. According to Philly.com, various assessments showed that Marvae Dunn, 64, was not aware enough to stand trial.
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius will be suspended for at least a month so that the former Olympian can be assessed by a team of psychiatrists.
Salvatore Perrone, a 65-year-old garment salesman from Staten Island, stands accused of executing three Brooklyn shopkeepers in 2012. In a trial tentatively scheduled for the fall, the defendant will represent himself. Perrone launches his defense just a month after medical experts declared him mentally fit for…
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a 52-year-old German conman, best known for his infamous posing as Clark Rockefeller, was found guilty of murdering a California man 28 years ago. Gerhartsreiter has lived for many years using the name Rockefeller and claimed to be an heir to their fortune.
O.J. Simpson spent this Thanksgiving inside of a jail cell. He's currently doing time for armed robbery, but the details of his famous 1994 murder trial have still not escaped him.
The trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin has yet to begin, but there are already complications. Today, Zimmerman's defense team — led by lawyer Mark O'Mara — formally requested that the assigned judge remove herself from the case. Judge Jessica Recksiedler's husband works with a CNN analyst who…
Former supermodel Christie Brinkley-and her lawyer-want you, me, and everyone else to know what a prick her ex, teen-screwing architect Peter Cook, really is. "The couple, who are due in court to hammer out custody issues on July 2, went to New York's supreme court on Thursday in an attempt to settle an escalating…
Last night, a reader emailed us why we hadn't been covering the sexual harassment trial against hip-hop monthly The Source and its founders, Raymond "Benzino" Scott and David Mays. The trial has wrapped up already -a federal jury in Manhattan ordered the defendants to pay $14.5 million to former editor in chief…
