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Just after the last selections of alternate jurors were made, a man set himself on fire outside the courthouse, horrifying onlookers. But the case was not delayed. The final jurors [...]

''Oops, that sounds bad'': One prospective juror read aloud one of her old posts and apologized. Donald J. Trump is a creature of social media. And the lawyers representing him [...]

The former president flashed signs of irritation at times, but also seemed to fall asleep, before jolting back awake. Former President Donald J. Trump seemed alternately irritated and exhausted Monday [...]

Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. On the morning of Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman walked into [...]

The revelation, which the juror said figured in the deliberations at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial, led prosecutors to seek an inquiry and the defense to call for a new trial. Federal [...]

Col. W. Shane Cohen had served on the case for less than a year and set a January 2021 jury selection date that now appears uncertain. This article was produced [...]

The judge has set next January to begin jury selection in the long-awaited trial of five men accused of plotting the terrorist attacks. But big logistical challenges remain. This article [...]

Women in Chile, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere know: Stopping violence against women starts with politics and power. SÈO PAULO, Brazil -- During the jury selection process for Harvey Weinstein's criminal [...]

The defense is ''systematically eliminating every young white woman,'' a prosecutor said during jury selection. Half of the 12 jurors selected this week in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein [...]

The movie producer's lawyers say they cannot find a fair jury in New York City because of intense publicity and protests surrounding the trial. One week before opening statements in [...]

The movie producer's lawyers say they cannot find a fair jury in New York City because of intense publicity and protests surrounding the trial. One week before opening statements in [...]

Several celebrities were among those who might be mentioned or might testify at the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein, a judge said. The actresses Salma Hayek, Rosie Perez and Charlize [...]

WASHINGTON -- Doug Evans, a white prosecutor in Mississippi, has spent decades trying to convict Curtis Flowers, a black man, of the 1996 murders of four people inside a furniture [...]

MIAMI -- With sexual abuse allegations from dozens of girls in Florida back in the national spotlight more than a decade after they first surfaced, Jeffrey E. Epstein, a wealthy [...]

ST. LOUIS -- The potential jurors stole curious glances at Gov. Eric Greitens, the defendant, whose famous face usually appeared in glossy campaign ads. They told the courtroom they had [...]

When two Albuquerque police officers went on trial for murder last fall after the fatal shooting of a mentally ill homeless man, things did not look good for them. Police [...]

A 12-member jury has been selected for Bill Cosby's criminal trial as both sides agreed on two final members on Wednesday after clashing over the panel's racial makeup. Two members [...]

PITTSBURGH -- Sorting through a jury pool already exposed to the blaze of publicity over allegations against Bill Cosby, lawyers and a judge on Monday selected the first five jurors, [...]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania judge on Monday denied a request by Bill Cosby's lawyers for extra scrutiny of potential jurors ahead of the entertainer's upcoming trial on sexual-assault charges. [...]

For weeks, potential jurors have filled the long wooden benches in Manhattan courtrooms. Some of them said they knew little or nothing about the case that was nearly four decades [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNEWARK -- The jury of seven women and five men that will decide whether a political scandal involving the closing of approach lanes at the George Washington Bridge rose [...]

For months, Donald J. Trump has used his role as a provocateur to attract attention and high poll numbers in the Republican presidential campaign. But now some of his statements [...]

BALTIMORE -- As jury selection opened Monday in the trial of the first of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, more than half of roughly 75 [...]

A jury has been selected in the trial of Sheldon Silver, the once powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly who faces political corruption charges. Lawyers for Mr. Silver [...]

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver got his first good look on Monday at the prospective jurors who will hear his case and decide his fate. He did not seem to know or [...]

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires on Wednesday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week [...]

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- After months of delays, jury selection ended late Tuesday in the trial of James E. Holmes, who is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 during [...]

BOSTON -- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sat in the federal courthouse here on Tuesday in front of 64 prospective jurors who were waiting to see who among them might decide whether he [...]

The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case says jury selection is going so efficiently that the first phase will be cut short. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. had planned [...]

BOSTON -- One potential juror said she was biased against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev because he is Muslim. ''I already feel that he's guilty,'' she said. Another choked back tears as she [...]

BOSTON -- One potential juror said his wife was an intensive care nurse who had treated victims of the Boston Marathon bombing. Another had posted comments on social media while [...]

DENVER -- To choose a jury in the trial of the man charged with killing 12 people in a packed Colorado movie theater, court officials mailed notices to 9,000 people [...]

The first phase of jury selection in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing ended Wednesday as the last of more than 1,350 prospective jurors filled out [...]

Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of a man accused of murdering 6-year-old Etan Patz, and the judge warned potential jurors the proceedings could take more than two [...]

ATLANTA -- The trial promises to be both bizarre and tragic, with elementary teachers facing the possibility of prison, a major metropolitan school district named as a racketeering ''enterprise'' and [...]

In the terrorism trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who prosecutors say was a top adviser to Osama bin Laden, the specter of the Sept. 11 attacks has naturally loomed heavily [...]

In the days and weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, a Kuwaiti-born cleric, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, became a familiar figure in propaganda videos for Al Qaeda, appearing in some with [...]

SANFORD, Fla. -- A jury of six women will decide whether George Zimmerman was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in an altercation [...]

SANFORD, Fla. -- The mother whose 18-year-old ''lives in a hoodie'' was in. So was the young man who said he paid little attention to the story of the shooting [...]

During jury selection last week in the fraud trial of two former associates of John C. Liu, the city comptroller, federal prosecutors asked the judge to excuse a doctor who [...]

Seven women and five men on the main panel and four alternates were selected in a courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa., for Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse trial. Opening statements by [...]

Connections to Penn State were not enough to keep prospective jurors from being chosen to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate on child sexual abuse charges. Six jurors were selected, including a [...]

State prosecutors asked the judge in the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case to bring in a jury from another Pennsylvania county, saying it was needed because of pretrial publicity and [...]

CHICAGO -- Finally, 18 months after the arrest of Rod R. Blagojevich, the ousted former governor of Illinois, he found himself seated at a table in a courtroom here Thursday, [...]

The first day of jury selection in the Cheshire triple murder case offered a taste of the intense emotions the case has brought to Connecticut, but ended without any jurors [...]

John A. Muhammad grew increasingly frustrated as he and prosecutors questioned potential jurors on the first day of his second trial in the sniper shootings in the Washington area in [...]

THE side show of jury selection all too often takes over the circus in American trials. And the central culprit in that takeover is the peremptory challenge, a practice by […]