Jurors In Barry Bonds' Trial May Have To Stay Off Twitter, Facebook
Jurors chosen for baseball slugger Barry Bonds' perjury trial in San Francisco next week might have to leave their cell phones and laptops turned off for weeks.
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Jurors chosen for baseball slugger Barry Bonds' perjury trial in San Francisco next week might have to leave their cell phones and laptops turned off for weeks.
The federal judge in the perjury trial of home-run champion Barry Bonds will hear arguments in San Francisco Tuesday on a final flurry of motions in which each side is seeking to predict and forestall the other's trial strategy.
Federal prosecutors are fighting to show the jury in Barry Bonds' perjury trial a trove of evidence alleging the slugger mistreated his wife, girlfriends and other people around him.
With less than five weeks to go before the federal perjury trial of home run champion Barry Bonds in San Francisco, the judge presiding over the case asked both sides Friday whether they would consider a plea bargain.
In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors filed their third revised indictment against Barry Bonds, who is scheduled to stand trial March 21.
A San Francisco man was ordered Thursday to stand trial for allegedly beating up a Catholic priest he claims molested him more than 35 years ago.
An Iranian lawyer representing three Americans accused by Tehran of spying says he is ready for the start of their trial.
A judge has ruled that the man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years is competent to stand trial.
A state appeals court Monday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by family members who claimed the city of San Francisco's former sanctuary policy contributed to the fatal shooting of a father and two sons.
A prosecutor and a defense attorney differed Monday over whether an Oakland man deliberately murdered his 3-month-old son nearly four years ago or caused the boy's death by dropping him in an unfortunate accident.
An alleged MS-13 gang member accused in the 2008 fatal shootings of a San Francisco father and two of his sons is expected to go on trial for murder in late June, prosecutors said Friday.
A Contra Costa County judge Tuesday ordered six of the seven defendants in the October 2009 beating and gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at Richmond High School to stand trial.
After several weeks, the preliminary hearing into the gang-rape of a Richmond High School student is finally wrapping up, with the last witness called to the stand Monday in Martinez.
A DNA expert said he found semen from two and possibly three of the defendants in the October 2009 gang rape at Richmond High School on the victim's body and on evidence collected at the scene.
The trial has been pushed back for a Central California high school wrestler charged with the sexual battery of an opponent during a practice match.
Fourteen-year law enforcement veteran Detective Eric Smith testified in Contra Costa Superior Court Tuesday.
One of the seven defendants in the 2009 Richmond High School gang rape case told a detective that he backhanded the victim across her face "because she wouldn't shut up" during the assault, the detective testified in court Monday.
El Dorado County's district attorney is objecting to efforts to make public transcripts from the grand jury that indicted the couple accused of kidnapping Jaycee Dugard.
A jury has begun deliberations in the drug conspiracy case against Anna Nicole Smith's two doctors and her lawyer-boyfriend.
The Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case, charging her lawyer-boyfriend and two doctors with providing the former Playboy model with excessive amounts of drugs, was placed in the hands of a jury Friday.
The defense lawyer for former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle says his client deserves a new trial.
A prosecutor portrayed Anna Nicole Smith Monday as an out-of-control drug addict who pressured doctors into prescribing pain killers and sedatives.
The judge in the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy case acquitted her boyfriend-lawyer Howard Stern on Wednesday of two charges of obtaining drugs for her by fraud and deceit including use of false names.
Prosecution and defense attorneys rested their cases Monday in the seven-week drug conspiracy trial of Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer-boyfriend and two doctors charged with providing her with excessive amounts of opiates and sedatives while knowing she was an addict.
A judge suspended criminal proceedings Friday against the man accused of kidnapping and raping Jaycee Dugard 19 years ago over concerns about his mental state.
