Trial

Ghislaine Maxwell is scheduled to go on trial in New York City for allegedly helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit teenage girls who he sexually abused.

The former "19 Kids and Counting" personality, 33, was indicted in April on two counts of downloading and possessing child pornography.

The task of selecting the jury resembles the trial of Derek Chauvin as video evidence becomes the focal point and potential jurors worry for their safety.

Bryan Riley is facing 22 charges, including murder, arson, kidnapping, burglary and animal cruelty for the September 5 incident.

Lev Parnas and Andrey Kukushkin are accused of making illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday.

The plan to indict the real estate millionaire comes shortly after a grand jury found him guilty of killing his friend, Susan Berman, who knew about his ex-wife's death.

The California Supreme Court threw out Peterson's death penalty sentencing last year, and a Superior Court judge said she will resentence him in December.

The Minnesota Supreme Court rejected Chauvin's request to be represented by a public defender, saying he had not proved he was unable to afford an attorney.

Nine months after Cruz allegedly killed 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, he was charged with attacking a jail guard.

"There is no evidence that the victim was suffering from any mental health issue, or had otherwise decompensated," on the day he was killed, the judge ruled.

Washington's federal court is clogged with Jan. 6 cases, which more than double the total number of new criminal cases filed there all of last year.

R. Kelly was found guilty of "racketeering and multiple predicate acts," including illegal sex with minors, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

R&B singer R. Kelly was on Monday found guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York.

"I had to make it believable enough without raising any red flags," said Laura Janke, a former assistant women's soccer coach.

In an unusual closing speech, Kelly's lawyer compared the singer to Martin Luther King Jr. and insisted he was fighting for his constitutional rights.

Witnesses for the defense included a handful of Kelly's former employees and associates, most of whom testified they had never seen him abuse anyone.

Paul Flores was the last person seen with Smart before she went missing and will stand trial on a murder charge for her suspected death.

The R&B singer has denied all charges of sexual assault, and claimed the women accusing him were former groupies who wanted to take advantage of his fame.

After months of testimony and hours of deliberation, a jury determined the 78-year-old real estate heir guilty in the 2000 shooting of Susan Berman.

"There is nothing in this evidence that would support that the shootings were race-based," Rittenhouse attorney Cory Chirafisi said. "We are hoping to try this case on the facts."

Salah Abdeslam was the only survivor from a group of suicide bombers and gunmen who carried out coordinated attacks across Paris that killed 130 people.

The Healthcare Institute, which Senator Katrina Robinson directed, received more than $2.2 million in federal grants from the Department of Health and Human Services.

"It would have been my very first huge celebrity interview. I thought it would kickstart my career," said the witness, who is now 39.

Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, are accused of killing Vallow's teenage daughter, young son and Daybell's first wife.

Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the Islamic State group who attacked Paris, said he was "a fighter for Islamic State" when asked for his profession.

Donald Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice so far in U.S. history.

"A trial is not the time for the attorneys to editorialize or give their opinions of a defendant," Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer said.

"People are deterred from testifying for the defense because they fear the wrath of the crowd," the attorneys wrote.

She said Kelly added "I still have a lot to teach you" and that he kept a gun by his side as he would reprimand her before forcing her to perform oral sex.

Jason Ravnsborg had accumulated eight traffic tickets over seven years prior to last year's fatal crash, including six speeding tickets in different counties.