Killing Case News Today

The Bombay High Court has vacated the stay on trial in the 2010 killing of criminal lawyer Shahid Azmi and rejected a plea filed by an accused seeking a change of the trial court on the grounds of "bias".

Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra, was denied bail by a court on Wednesday in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case.

The prosecutors can decide to retry the case. this is a case i dont have to tell people that has drawn a lot of interest in that community and around the country. >> you heard from the note from the foreperson referencing this lone juror with issues and it sounded almost like this foreperson was asking for that juror to be maybe dismissed? is that even an option or a possibility? that would be up to the judge, right? not any member of the jury? >> this is a key point. the people on the jury are ...

That is happening inside the courthouse. as soon as we get developments we will break in. tell us what happens if there is a hung jury. what are the next steps after that? >> reporter: certainly. as you mentioned, a lot of drama inside that courthouse right now. as ari melber described a few minutes ago this could be the bottom of the ninth inning perhaps in this trial if it turns out to be a hung jury. as you mentioned the judge has not made that determination yet but we are waiting and it coul...

The core of the trial. mr. slagrs life also hangs in the balance when you look up to potentially 30 years in prison. you see this in a lot of trials. you see jurors struggling with that, taking their role seriously, looking at the evidence, debating each other and in this case, an 11-1 means that one person, obviously, has strong views and is standing up to the rest of them for the reasons they have reached. the other point that i would note, again, given what we have, which is not the whole sto...

Torso. the witness who said that gasser was standing over mcknights body cursing at him and shooting at him were false and that is what a lot of those community activists and others we talked to today have been concerned about, how could he possibly be let go? how could there possibly be any sort of self-defense case here if he was standing over his body and shooting him? well, the sheriff said none of that happened and none of that is accurate. so there is still a lot of unclear points here but...

Do not have evidence, video of the homicide itself. this is a case where everyone brings a view to it who has learned about it. jurors and people in the community and the country because you had that very disturbing video of mr. scott appearing it retreat running away and shot in the back at a 15-foot range. i would put it simply that the video looked like a crime. and then the defense of officer slagr you have to look beyond the video to other things that happened before that werent on the vide...

>> you have been watching the judge in the case against former police officer michael slagr in the shooting death of walter scott talk to the courtroom here. here is the situation, from what we understand. the jury, as we know earlier this afternoon, came back and delivered a couple of notes to the judge indicating that they had had been potentially deadlocked, unable to reach a decision. the judge essentially sent them back in to continue deliberations. now you heard the judge read a couple of ...

That one juror holdout saying he doesnt think he will return the other 11 and goes out of his way saying he thinks they are good and honest and doing what they think is right and saying he is not changing his mind. i think what we just saw and say this with no disrespect to the system and explain is buying a little more time for the jurors to talk to each other and get an instruction on the law. but if that written letter remains true and that person is not changing their mind, then according to...

Or talked about that. im going on breaking news. judge talking to the jury in south carolina killing case, the shooting death of an unarmed black man. listen. >> our heart does want to have to tell the scott family that the man that killed their son, brother, and father, is innocent. but with the choices, i cannot and will not change my mind. that came not from the foreperson but from a juror. the foreperson then wrote, its just one juror that has the issues. then the foreperson wrote, need to l...