'Something Dangerous Was Going to Happen': Witness at Kyle Rittenhouse Trial Speaks About Encounter With Shooter
A man who recorded video when the teenager fired his gun talks about what he saw in the moments leading up to the gunfire.
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A man who recorded video when the teenager fired his gun talks about what he saw in the moments leading up to the gunfire.
As the graphic unedited video was played, Rittenhouse looked away from the screens in the courtroom.
Smollett faces six counts of disorderly conduct, accused of filing false police reports that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic assault in January 2019.
He is charged in the July 2017 killing of Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau, a 26-year-old hair stylist from Michigan who was stabbed dozens of times in Lathem's Chicago high-rise condominium.
Prosecutors at the R. Kelly sex trafficking trial ended their case Monday after calling dozens of witnesses over the past month who detailed the government's sweeping allegations against the singer in lurid detail.
R. Kelly's longtime assistant testified Monday that the R&B superstar was so paranoid, he once asked her to change into a robe to demonstrate she was not wearing a wire.
It's phase three of the trial, which Dr. Novak said is the most important phase. It's the one that determines if the injection actually works.
The feds also argued jurors will hear evidence Kelly is "capable of inflicting violence," which might affect their impartiality if they are aware their names will be public.
Opening statements are set to begin Tuesday in the murder trial of a man charged with killing Chicago Police Commander Paul Bauer.
Prosecutors say Lowell Houser, then an off-duty Chicago Police Department officer, shot to death of 38-year-old Jose Nieves during an argument outside an apartment complex where the victim lived.
Prosecutors wrapped up their case Wednesday by showing jurors autopsy photos, including ones of the fatal shot to Tyshawn's head.
Two separate juries have been selected to decide the fates of 31-year-old Corey Morgan and 25-year-old Dwright Boone-Doty, who are accused of targeting Tyshawn in retaliation for the gang-killing of Morgan's brother. Both men are charged with first-degree murder.
"It was the worst form of evil I think I've ever seen," said Rev. Michael Pfleger, who presided over Tyshawn's funeral.
It's possible Christensen himself could testify, with one theory being he might choose to reveal what he did with Zhang's body as a way to save his life.
Nearly five years after his arrest, a man, accused of killing a Bedford Park woman 17 years ago will go on trial.
Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday in the trial of former University of Illinois doctoral student Brendt Christensen, charged with kidnapping and killing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang in 2017.
Prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case against former University of Illinois student Brendt Christensen on Friday in the murder of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang.
Terra Bullis said she truly cared about Brendt Christensen, but also "cared about this missing person" Yingying Zhang. "And it's incredibly painful," Bullis said.
The FBI is investigating the claim by a former University of Illinois doctoral student that the visiting scholar from China he's charged with killing was his 13th victim, even though no evidence has been found to indicate whether he was telling the truth, an FBI agent testified Monday.
The federal death penalty trial of a former University of Illinois student accused of killing a visiting Chinese scholar continues on Monday.
Hours of FBI interviews, dozens of pictures and videos; that's what jurors are sifting through in the murder trial for a former University of Illinois student accused of kidnapping and killing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang.
Brendt Christensen is charged in the death of Yingying Zhang, who disappeared in June 2017. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Christensen.
The case has garnered enormous interest in China and among Chinese students in the U.S. Several Chinese diplomats are attending the Peoria trial.
A former University of Illinois graduate student is set to stand trial in the 2017 disappearance and suspected killing of a visiting scholar from China.
