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The New York federal judge scheduled to preside over the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez rejected on Thursday a defense request to delay the start of jury selection from May to July. Judge Sidney H. Stein's order leaves in place a May 5 trial date in Manhattan for the New Jersey Democrat, who faces trial along with his wife and three New Jersey businessmen. All have pleaded not guilty to charges alleging they engaged in a bribery conspiracy that enriched the senator and his wife w...

An Idaho judge on Friday gave Bryan Kohberger’s attorneys three weeks to submit evidence for the accused killer’s alibi if he plans on using that as a defense.

Protective order, and at the defense request from donald trump. that if he restricted to sensitive materials. but then she imposed are really raw definition of whats included in that category of sensitive materials. so charles, most of the 11 million pages of evidence that the trump team is going to get, trump will only be able to look at under adult supervision. >> danny, to pauls point, its clear for anyone whos paying attention that judge chutkan is doing as good a job as possible in terms of...

A Canton teen accused of killing his father July 4 is on house arrest with a location monitor, 24-hour supervision and limits on visitors.

And law. its going to be about is there a political solution to this case because im not going to win on the facts and the law. >> were seeing it play out. we already know that. his criminal defense strategy is to win the republican try to wi house again. heaven help us. >> nicole, could i interrupt for a second? i think that relates to what has been filed in the florida case. the government put its brief in opposing the defense request to have no trial date set. that goes to the conversation we...

Change of venue, this must be, at said the defendant. after all almost everyone seems to have heard the accusations about dave. and every time he had a court appearance, purple clad friends of debbie flooded into the gallery. in fact, during jury selection, said coleman, he actually heard some jurors tell the judge that they had already decided that dave hawk was guilty. >> the judge asked him, if i order you to set those opinions aside, can you do it. well, i guess so. >> still, the defense app...

His upstairs neighbor in her own apartment firing 19 times in the process. the victim, 30-year-old jennifer gomez was dead on scene with multiple gunshot wounds. her neighbors told police sutherland confronted her about making stomping noises in the past. i asked gascons office how it -- they responded a court appointed psychologist deemed him suitable for the treatment program. our prosecutor agreed to the defense request for mental health diversion. the court deemed the defendant safe for comm...

Just not clear if they have wrapped up their work. its not clear where prosecutors are at following this somewhat unexpected testimony from robert costello monday because this is a prosecutors show. its a grand jury, and that was a defense request. did witness what we do now, though. if they vote to indict the former president this week. any initial appearance they want to wait until next week for that, and the choreography here would be an indictment would be voted out will be filed under seal....

Northern new jersey exploded in the middle of the night it happened last month as police and firefighters investigated a gas leak six firefighters were inside that home all survived, and remarkably, none suffered life-threatening injuries in south carolina today the defense rested their case in the alex murdaugh double murder trial as the judge granted the defense request for the jury to visit the scene of the crime catie beck has late details. >> reporter: the murdaugh trial jury will go to t...

Court in the double murder trial of alex murdaugh. mr. murdaugh took the stand today and admitted he lied repeatedly. court resumes tomorrow with more cross-examination of him. the judge tonight denied a defense request to interrupt that testimony to call other witnesses. and after what some of murdaugh admitted to on the stand today, its not hard to see why the defense might want to hit pause. our randi kaye was in the courtroom. >> im alex murdaugh, mur m-u-r-d m-u-r-d-a-u-g-h. good morning. >...