MTV reports: After two-and-a-half days of deliberation, the jury in the murder trial of William Balfour returned a guilty verdict on all counts on Friday afternoon).

Balfour was on trial for the…

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Last July, video emerged featuring the brutal beating of a 37 year old homeless man named Kelly Thomas at the hands of Fullerton police officers.

A picture of Thomas in the hospital after the ordeal…

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Back in 2010, Harlem rapper and former Bad Boy star G-Dep sent shock waves thru the rap community when it was revealed he had turned himself in for a murder back in 1993.

But as the trial has now gotten underway, G-Dep now claims that although he did shoot someone the night in question,, it wasn't the man he's on…

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MTV reports: Atlanta producer Shawty Redd (born Demetrius Lee Stewart) was charged with murder last year after a fatal shooting incident occurred at his Hampton, Georgia home on New Year’s Day 2010. The… Continue

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Things got ugly outside the courthouse yesterday where the trial for accused child killer Casey Anthony is taking place. The fight didnt involve emotional family members like one might expect, but instead involved total strangers who got into a dispute over… Continue

A Toronto police officer has pleaded guilty to one count of threatening bodily harm after being caught on video intimidating two people in custody with a Taser.

Video released Monday during Const. Christopher Hominuk's trial shows the officer using his Taser to try to exact…

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Timothy West was acquitted yesterday of raping a Queens woman he later contacted by text. The jury "didn't believe her story because there were no signs of forced entry" into her home, said one male panelist.









A convict busted after he texted the woman he was accused of raping to ask her for a date was acquitted of all charges yesterday.



Timothy West, 26, embraced his lawyer, Mihea Kim, as jurors found him… Continue

News of yesterday hung jury in the Buju Banton drug trial has been met with relief among the local entertainment fraternity, while the artiste at the centre of the trial is said to be upbeat following yesterday's developments.



Vice president of Buju's Gargamel Music, Tracii McGregor, noted that the deejay is optimistic in light of yesterday's decision by the presiding judge to set a new trial date in light of the inability of the jury… Continue

Els Clottemans in the Belgian court today, accused of killing fellow skydiver Els Van Doren. Photograph: Michel Krakowski/AFP/Getty Images







It has been called the trial of the year – a murder blamed on a Brussels primary school teacher and amateur skydiver who prosecutors say killed a close friend and fellow parachutist after losing a contest for the affections of their instructor.



Els Clottemans, 26, is charged… Continue

Sorry with all my heart: Nadja Benaissa, singer of German girl band 'No Angels', sits in a courtroom in Darmstadt, Germany, today





DailyMail.co.uk: A singer with Germany's top girl band has apologised to a court today for having sex with men without telling them she carried the virus that causes Aids.

Nadja Benaissa, 28, told justices at the District Court of Darmstadt,… Continue

Fury: Police arrest a protester on the streets of Oakland last night as riots broke out over the killing of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a white officer last year





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Oakland, California (CNN.com) -- Hundreds stormed the streets of downtown Oakland on Thursday night after a verdict in the trial of a white former police officer who fatally shot an… Continue

NY Daily News: It started as a simple Twitter beef, 140-character spurts of anger by two young men who grew up together.



But the tough talk exploded out of cyberspace and onto the streets of Harlem, where a college student was gunned down feet from Gov. Paterson's home.



Now tweets sent by victim Kwame Dancy, 22, and accused killer Jameg Blake, 22, could become key evidence in a murder trial, the Daily News has… Continue

NY Daily News: Faced with a hopelessly deadlocked jury, a federal judge declared a mistrial Tuesday in John A. (Junior) Gotti's fourth racketeering trial.



The jury, in its 11th fruitless day of deliberations, sent out its second note in three days announcing it was at a stalemate on all three charges against the now-Teflon Son.



Judge Kevin Castel then declared a mistrial in the 11-week old case, yet another stinging… Continue

A Metairie woman who served on the jury that convicted Corey "C-Murder" Miller of murder said she changed her vote to guilty to end deliberations in defense of a young juror who felt the rapper was innocent but who emotionally and physically crumbled under the "brutal" pressure heaved by other jurors.





Miller was convicted of murder Aug. 11.



While she still thinks that prosecutors did not prove their case "beyond a… Continue