Defense Rests In Ghost Ship Trial After Final Day Of Almena Testimony
A major chapter in the Ghost Ship trial ended Thursday with the defense resting their case after a final day of testimony from one of the defendants.
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A major chapter in the Ghost Ship trial ended Thursday with the defense resting their case after a final day of testimony from one of the defendants.
After two days of emotional testimony, Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena became combative with prosecutors during their cross examination Wednesday morning.
Ghost Ship Fire defendant Derick Almena returned to the stand Tuesday morning, offering more testimony that pointed an accusing finger at the city Oakland for the fatal warehouse fire.
The most anticipated moment of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire trial happened Monday afternoon, when master tenant Derick Almena took the stand and gave emotional testimony.
Attorneys for Derek Almena and Max Harris, the two men being held responsible for the deaths of 36 people, are trying to show that others also played a significant role in the tragedy.
A former top Oakland fire official testified Thursday that there no evidence found of Molotov cocktails or other explosive devices at the scene of the deadly Ghost Ship Warehouse fire.
A lawyer for Ghost Ship warehouse creative director Max Harris aggressively cross-examined a former top Oakland Fire Department official on Wednesday about her testimony that investigators didn't find any evidence of explosive materials at a deadly fire there in 2016.
A former top Oakland Fire Department official said on Tuesday that investigators didn't find any evidence that Molotov cocktails or other explosives were thrown into the Ghost Ship warehouse at the time of a fire that killed 36 people in 2016.
An Oakland fire battalion chief said Wednesday that she knew immediately after she arrived at the Ghost Ship warehouse after 11 p.m. on Dec. 2, 2016, that the fire that was burning there was a major event.
A judge on Monday scheduled a trial to begin July 29 on the mental competency of a transient who's charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland last July.
The defense lawyer for Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena on Wednesday repeated allegations that the fire at the warehouse in Oakland in 2016 was an act of arson that Almena couldn't have prevented and asked jurors to find him not guilty.
For two hours, victims' families wept and clutched one another Tuesday while a prosecutor opened the Ghost Ship warehouse fire trial by showing photos of and methodically naming each of the 36 young partygoers who died in the 2016 blaze during an illegal music show.
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes faced a judge in federal court Monday, but the sheer volume of evidence in the case is delaying her trial.
The judge in the case of Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena and creative director Max Harris announced on Tuesday an aggressive and optimistic schedule for their trial.
The second trial in which the plaintiff is claiming Monsanto's weed killer Roundup causes cancer is set to begin in San Francisco on Monday.
A new judge will be assigned to preside over the trial next year for Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Almena and creative director Max Harris on 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Attorneys for Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena and Max Harris filed a request Tuesday that the building's owners and Oakland firefighters and police officers be arrested and prosecuted along with Almena and Harris.
Alameda County's District Attorney has told a judge she will no longer consider plea deals for two men charged in the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire that killed 36 people attending an unlicensed concert.
A San Francisco jury Friday ruled in favor of a former Benicia Unified School District groundskeeper who blamed his deadly cancer on the popular herbicide "Roundup" and sued its manufacturer Monsanto for damages.
The first day of angry, tearful statements filled an Alameda County courtroom Thursday morning as family members and love ones got a chance to speak at the emotionally charged formal sentencing hearing in the deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire.
Relatives of people killed in a 2016 California warehouse fire say others besides the two men who agreed to plea deals are responsible for their losses.
The two men charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter in Oakland's deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire agreed to a no contest plea deal Tuesday in exchange sentences of less than 10 years in county jail.
There was a major development in a closely watched criminal case Friday as KPIX 5 learned that the two men charged in the deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire have made a deal with prosecutors.
A plea deal is close at hand for the central figure charged in connection with the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire that killed three dozen partygoers at an unlicensed concert in 2016, his attorney said Friday.
