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*The Jackson Brothers prove that in some cases the show must go on. Katherine Jackson and the family are involved with AEG Live in a wrongful death lawsuit. The trial is taking place in downtown Los Angeles. In the meantime, just a couple blocks away, Michael Jackson’s brothers are scheduled to perform at the Staples [...]
*Author and Nationally Syndicated Columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson contends that the Trayvon Martin slaying has been firmly and indelibly embedded in America’s public mind as not just the personal tragedy of a young life needlessly lost, and the tragedy of a man who thought he was doing his duty to protect a community. It is now [...]
*O.J. Simpson arrived in a courtroom Monday morning in wrist shackles and dressed in a blue jail suit seeking a new trial in his 2008 sports memorabilia robbery and kidnapping conviction that sent him to prison. [Scroll down to watch.] Several of his family members were seated in the Clark County courtroom of District Court [...]
*As expected, former neighborhood watchman and killer of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, waived his right to the stand your ground law to claim self-defense. He was asked in a series of questions whether or not he understood that he was giving up the right to a hearing before his second-degree murder trial in June. [...]
*Opening statements are scheduled to begin this morning in a case filed by Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine against AEG Live, the company promoting his planned series of comeback concerts. The remarks in Los Angeles court will provide a roadmap of the case, which may last 90 trial days. Katherine is claiming AEG failed to properly [...]
*A jury of six men and six women was accepted by both sides on Monday for the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Michael Jackson against AEG concert promoters, reports the AP. Lawyers immediately began questioning prospects to sit as alternate jurors. The jury was seated a week after a [...]
*A judge in Las Vegas says there’s enough evidence that Flavor Flav threatened his longtime girlfriend’s 17-year-old son with a butcher knife for the rapper to stand trial on two felony charges. The 54-year-old rap and reality TV star didn’t testify during an evidence hearing Wednesday, but the teen did. The judge scheduled an April [...]
*Attorneys and a Los Angeles judge have selected 81 people to remain in the jury pool for the case between Michael Jackson’s mother and concert giant AEG Live. Nine people were added to the pool Wednesday after the sixth day of jury selection, reports the Associated Press. Screenings will continue today and Friday to try [...]
*Jury selection began Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by Michael Jackson’s mother against AEG Live, the promoter of the late singer’s planned comeback concerts. Dozens of prospective jurors answered written questionnaires that gauged their ability to serve on the trial, which may last three months, reports the Associated Press. One 24-page section of the questionnaire [...]
*The defense for Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, is still building that self-defense case. Attorneys released a re-mastered photo of the suspect bloodied the night the confrontation occurred. The photo was previously presented before, however, this time around the image is higher quality and less grainy. Zimmerman’s defense vows to present related documents and other [...]
*James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond has been charged for the murder of a 50 Cent associate. One June 5, the music mogul was convicted for being the ring master of a bi-coastal drug operation. But in the midst of the trial, he was indicted for conspiring with five other ment to kill Lowell Fletcher in 2009. [...]
*The Jimmy ‘Henchman’ Rosemond trial has begun with opening statements in Brooklyn Federal Court. The former music industry executive who worked with artists like the Game, Brandy and Akon, has been charged with 13 counts related to running a $10 million bi-coastal cocaine operation. The prosecution began the trial with a detailed illustration of his [...]
*A comedian once joked that he had gotten away with burglarizing the homes of his neighbors, because none of them believed he would do something like that! Instead his neighbors and the police were focused on the usual suspects who were not white, not employed and not homeowners. And when evidence pointed towards him as [...]
*Jennifer Hudson is on the witness list for the upcoming trial of the man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew, reports the Chicago Tribune. However, prosecutors haven’t yet disclosed whether the Oscar winner will actually testify at William Balfour’s trial, which is slated to begin April 9. Balfour was the estranged husband [...]
*Michael Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Murray, currently on trial for administering the fatal dose of propofol that killed his famous patient, is pitching a TV documentary about his final moments with the King of Pop. As the high-profile case enters closing arguments on Thursday, Murray is negotiating to cash in on his side of the [...]
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