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July 17, 2022
The jury, which had no Black members, found Darian L. McWoods guilty of murder by abuse in the death of…
April 24, 2022
The jury met briefly Friday evening before adjourning for the weekend. Deliberations will continue on Monday.
December 13, 2021
The juror told The Chicago Sun-Times that in the end, the jury of six women and six men "all thought…
September 25, 2021
The panel of seven men and five women began deliberating racketeering and sex trafficking charges against the R&B superstar Friday…
August 3, 2021
The night of his death, Derontae Martin attended James Wade's daughter's birthday party. He was later found shot in Wade's…
July 24, 2021
Trial testimony showed he shot and beat to death his girlfriend, Kenyatta Barron, and used a hatchet to kill their…
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May 15, 2021
A jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded $75 million to two Black, intellectually disabled half…
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October 4, 2019
Two jurors say they felt that they could not give Amber Guyger more than the 10 years she was handed…
Mischeka Nicholson
October 4, 2019
On Wednesday, a jury composed largely of people of color and women sentenced Amber Guyger to 10 years in prison.
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October 23, 2018
A California judge reduced a dying cancer patient’s $289 million punitive award granted by a jury in a case against…
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October 16, 2018
Members of a California jury that awarded a terminally ill man more than $289 million after ruling that his cancer…
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October 9, 2018
A Pennsylvania black man stood accused in the homicide of a racist white man after a racial incident escalated, but…
June 22, 2017
After 52 hours of tense deliberations, two holdouts in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial refused to convict the 79-year-old comedian,…
June 21, 2017
The judge who presided over Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial is weighing whether to make public the identities of the…
March 6, 2017
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that jury deliberations should not remain private if those deliberations are married by racial…
February 27, 2017
Bill Cosby is back in a Pennsylvania courtroom as his legal team asks a judge to bring in outside jurors…
December 9, 2016
Dorsey Montgomery, the jury foreman in the trial for Michael Slager, had a 2014 traffic stop and arrest but was…
September 1, 2016
DeShawn Franklin was asleep when three white police officers entered his room and began to punch him in the face.
January 23, 2016
Alan Newton spent 22 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, and after he was released, he was…
December 28, 2015
CLEVELAND (AP) — A grand jury declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir…