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Inaccurate historical details often become embedded in the narrative because of frequent repetition. Such was the case with a murder trial that involved prominent Yukon lawyer George Black in 1922.This is a cautionary note for those gathering historical accounts to dig deep and evaluate the content carefully, or risk perpetuating historical myths., It is often difficult to get to the truth of history, and Yukon history provides many such challenges. For example, some tall tales from the gold rush era have been [...]

SITUATION: You go, armed, to a relative's home to protect her from her abusive husband ... and you end up charged with murder. LESSON: Avoid confrontations if you can. If [...]

It was the beginning of one of those long summers in Bloomington, Illinois, the air so heavy you could chew it. The evening before, he and his girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, [...]

Byline: Ummar Jamal 'The reasoning assigned by the trial Court for awarding capital punishment are quite strange. The trial Court has quoted a verse from Mahabharata, which we feel to [...]

In July 2000, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting, a convicted paedophile who had been released early from a four-year sentence for abducting and assaulting a young girl. [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / Briefing NEWS The never-ending jail sentences [I.Sentences of “imprisonment for public protection” (IPPs) have been widely condemned, but many are still in force] Why were IPPs [...]

Byline: Anadi Tewari 'It is an absolutely wrong concept in your mind that if a person is charged with murder, he has to remain in jail,' the Court orally observed [...]

Byline: Abhimanyu Hazarika The Bombay High Court had in July 2019 upheld the death penalty imposed by the trial court for the murder of his mother, wife and two-year-old daughter [...]

Byline: Praisy Thomas Those sentenced are Ismail, Muneer, Sidhique, Muhammed Anees, Shuhaib, Jasim, and Samad. They are alleged to be activists of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). The Kerala [...]

Byline: Anadi Tewari While upholding the conviction of the duo for murder, the Court opined that the case did not fall within the category of 'rarest of rare cases' to [...]

Netflix has released a true crime drama and a documentary about the Menendez brothers' high-profile '90s trial. But both projects leave out two new pieces of evidence that were made [...]

Ryan Murphy's latest true crime drama is about two brothers who killed their parents in 1986. He said the show was the best thing to happen to Erik Menendez and [...]

Byline: Sahyaja Ms The Court also said that it would be risky even to award imprisonment for life since he would be a potential danger to the other inmates in [...]

Although Beverly Hills brothers Lyle and Eric Menendez didn’t get away with the murder of their mother and father, it was a perfect crime in one respect: it set the [...]

Editor's Note: Ronald K.L. Collins is a retired law professor, noted legal scholar, and the author or co-author of 13 books. He recently published Tragedy on Trial: The Story of [...]

Editor's Note: Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch, III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The following [...]

Byline: Just Earth News A US woman, whose son is accused of killing four people during a shooting incident, is now facing allegations of taping her elderly mother to a [...]

(https://thewrap.com/tag/monsters-the-lyle-and-erik-menendez-story/) “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” is now on Netflix, bringing renewed interest to the case of the two brothers who murdered their parents. But as with any [...]

Before the O.J. Simpson case transfixed America and forever changed the media, there was the Menendez Brothers case. It’s this highly publicized trial that stands at the center of Ryan [...]

Byline: Praisy Thomas The 4-year-old, daughter of one of the convicts, was discovered in a six-feet-deep pit on October 30, 2013. The Kerala High Court on Friday commuted the death [...]

Byline: Steve Schuster, sschuster@wislawjournal.com As both members of the prosecution and the defense are waiting for the Wisconsin Court of Appeals to make a decision about the fate of convicted [...]

Byline: Prashant Jha The Delhi High Court on Wednesday unveiled an online portal named the Delhi High Court e-Museum , featuring original copies of landmark judgments, historical documents, artifacts and [...]

Tyrese Haspil is expected to be sentenced Tuesday for murdering NYC tech CEO Fahim Saleh. The DA plans to ask for 50 years to life, a term Haspil's lawyer calls [...]

A Florida man who allegedly struck a dealership co-worker in the head with a metal baseball bat has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge. Steve Tilbury, 29, allegedly attacked [...]

The criminal justice system, in theory, must be impartial. The only admissible considerations within the system, in theory, are intended to derive from a dispassionate weighing of facts in evidence. [...]

A New Orleans-area jury found a 25-year-old Louisiana man guilty of manslaughter Aug. 16 in the 2022 shooting death of a coworker while both were employed at a Hyundai dealership. [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench The High Court upheld the conviction and sentence handed down by an Additional District and Sessions Judge in December 2013. The Punjab and Haryana High Court [...]

Byline: Praisy Thomas The Court modified the conviction of the five accused including Baiju from murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The Kerala High Court on Friday commuted [...]