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The trial for the 2001 murder of Tara Baker entered its third day in Athens on Wednesday. Forensic testimony has established that Baker was strangled with a printer cord and stabbed before her ...

Jimmie Duncan walked free after a judge overturned his 1998 murder conviction and granted him bail, citing unreliable forensic testimony that relied on discredited bite-mark analysis. A judge found ...

In December 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bottom of a staircase inside her Durham, North Carolina home. Her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, told authorities he discovered her after ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The focus in court today is shifting from eyewitness accounts to science. Jurors today are getting a closer look at forensic evidence, including the bloody clothing investigators ...

WORCESTER – Jurors began deliberating Nov. 12 in the murder trial of Matthew Vanier, the former Gardner man on trial for allegedly bludgeoning his neighbor to death in 2017. As of noon Nov. 13, jurors ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The first day of testimony in the Lanaya Cardwell trial began Wednesday with witnesses describing the initial response to Nevaeh Gardner’s disappearance and presenting ...

King Kamehameha I united the Hawaiian Islands to create the Kingdom of Hawaii. His statue stands outside of Ali'iolani Hale, the home of the Hawaii Supreme Court. (Candace Cheung/Courthouse News) ...

The Katanga trial has been going on since 2024, and few cases in recent memory have gripped the country in the same way. From ...