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Author: BY VIMAL PATEL - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 02:04AM A Tennessee appeals court granted Tim Gilbert a new trial after jurors deliberated in a room named after the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Author: BY ERIN GRIFFITH AND ERIN WOO - Publish Date: September 3, 2021 at 12:08AM For two days, a judge, federal prosecutors and defense lawyers questioned roughly 100 potential jurors before whittling the list down to 12 jurors and five alternates.

Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: May 7, 2021 at 10:12AM Corrine Brown, a Florida Democrat who served more than two years in prison after being found guilty of running a sham charity, was granted a new trial by a federal appeals court.

Author: BY COURT TV - Publish Date: April 20, 2021 at 08:59AM Judge Peter A. Cahill criticized comments by Representative Maxine Waters that if the jury doesn’t return a guilty verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, protesters should “get more confrontational.”

Author: BY TIM ARANGO - Publish Date: March 19, 2021 at 06:36AM The court has selected 12 jurors in the case of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer accused of murder in the death of George Floyd. Opening statements are scheduled for March 29.

Author: BY TIM ARANGO - Publish Date: March 11, 2021 at 08:26AM The quick pace of juror selection and an awaited ruling from the State Supreme Court means opening statements in Derek Chauvin’s trial are likely to begin on March 29 as scheduled.

Author: BY TIM ARANGO AND SHAILA DEWAN - Publish Date: March 8, 2021 at 05:28AM Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged in connection with Mr. Floyd’s death.

Author: BY JAN RANSOM - Publish Date: January 22, 2020 at 06:31AM A day before opening arguments in his rape trial, Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers offered a first glimpse of their plan to undermine his accusers’ credibility.

Author: BY ALAN FEUER - Publish Date: January 16, 2020 at 07:49AM 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.

Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: October 4, 2019 at 08:27AM Deandre Somerville was also required to do 150 hours of community service, write an apology letter and pay a $223 fine after oversleeping, court records showed.

Author: EMILY PALMER - Publish Date: June 24, 2019 at 07:00AM It took six weeks to go through the evidence at Keith Raniere’s trial, but only four and a half hours for jurors to return guilty verdicts on all seven charges. The mood afterward was jubilant.

Author: IAN S. PORT - Publish Date: April 30, 2019 at 07:00AM Avoid it all you want, but you’re missing an incredible show.

Author: JAN RANSOM - Publish Date: April 21, 2019 at 07:00AM A holdout juror accused other jurors of misconduct in the trial of the man convicted of killing Ms. Vetrano, whose body was found in a Queens park.

Author: ADAM LIPTAK - Publish Date: April 1, 2019 at 07:00AM One juror in the 1993 case suggested that sentencing Charles Rhines to life in prison surrounded by other men would “be sending him where he wants to go.”

Author: ADAM LIPTAK - Publish Date: February 18, 2019 at 07:00AM The Supreme Court will consider whether a Mississippi prosecutor’s long record of excluding black jurors amounted to unconstitutional race discrimination.