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OPP to review Toronto police conduct after judge’s concerns over Umar Zameer trial
Justice Molloy, top, looks on as defence lawyers Nader Hasan, left, and Alexandra Heine, second from right, place their hands on the shoulders of their client Umar Zameer, as Zameer's wife Aaida Shaikh, right, looks on during the reading of the verdict in a courtroom sketch, in Toronto, Sunday, April 21, 2024. Zameer, accused of fatally running over a Toronto police officer, sobbed with relief after a jury found him not guilty in the officer's death. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould
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U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here’s what’s next
FILE - Supporters of former President Donald Trump protest outside of the Supreme Court on the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, riot at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023. All eyes are on the Supreme Court in Donald Trump's federal 2020 election interference case. The conservative-majority Supreme Court's next moves could determine whether the former president stands trial in Washington ahead of the November election.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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Former RCMP officer charged with foreign interference seeks to quash charges
A lawyer for a former RCMP officer charged with helping China conduct foreign interference is asking the court to quash the indictment against him over a jurisdictional issue. The Longueuil, Que., provincial courthouse is seen on Monday, April 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sidhartha Banerjee
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Umar Zameer found not guilty in death of Toronto police officer
Umar Zameer leaves a Toronto courthouse on Friday, April 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Florida man dies after setting himself on fire outside New York courthouse where Trump trial under way
A police officer uses a fire extinguisher as emergency personnel respond to a report of a person covered in flames, outside the courthouse where former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial is underway, in New York, U.S., April 19, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Judge at trial of man accused of killing Toronto police officer was concerned over Crown changing theory
Justice Molloy, left to right, Umar Zameer, Detective Adam Taylor, Nader Hasan and Michael Cantlon crown are shown in a courtroom sketch in Toronto on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould
u.s. politics
Manhattan court selects jury for Donald Trump’s hush-money trial
Former US president Donald Trump holds press clippings as he speaks to the press at the conclusion of the third day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York on April 18, 2024. A panel of 12 jurors was sworn in on Thursday to sit in judgement of Donald Trump at the unprecedented criminal trial of a former US president. (Photo by Brendan McDermid / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN MCDERMID/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Judge continues instructions to jury in trial of Umar Zameer, man accused of killing Toronto police officer
Umar Zameer, left to right, defence lawyers Alexandra Heine, Nader Hasan, Crown attorney Karen Simone are shown in this courtroom sketch as Justice Anne Molloy and jury members look on in Toronto on Thursday, March 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould
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12 jurors have been picked for Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Selection of alternates ongoing
Former President Donald Trump gestures while he walks outside the courtroom during a recess at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)
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The mysteries are mounting on the Jacques Delisle case
Kent Roach
u.s. politics
Georgia judge clears way for Trump to appeal ruling keeping Fani Willis on election interference case
FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump's administration entered the Fulton County district attorney's race Friday, March 8, 2024, as the current officeholder, Willis, awaits a judge's decision on whether she will be removed from the Georgia election interference case against the former president. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)
international business
London court finds woman guilty of money laundering in bitcoin fraud case
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Crown delivers opening statement in trial of man accused of killing Toronto cop
<div>Toronto police are urging demonstrators to follow the law ahead of two planned protests today and Saturday that are connected to the Israel-Hamas war and are expected to have a visible police presence. The Toronto Police Services emblem is photographed during a press conference at TPS headquarters, in Toronto on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov</div>
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Murder trial begins for man accused of killing Toronto cop in 2021
The face of Toronto Police officer Jeffrey Northrup is seen on a plasma screen at his his funeral service, in Toronto on July 12, 2021. Jury selection is expected to begin today in the trial of a man accused of killing a Toronto police officer nearly three years ago. Umar Zameer is charged with first-degree murder in the the death of Const. Jeffrey Northrup. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Man accused of killing Toronto police officer pleads not guilty to first-degree murder
Toronto police say one of its officers has been suspended with pay and is facing criminal charges after a woman involved in a landlord and tenant dispute was allegedly assaulted and robbed. A logo at the Toronto Police Services headquarters, in Toronto, on Friday, August 9, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
u.s. politics
Judge in Georgia lets prosecutor Fani Willis stay on Trump case but deputy steps down
FILE - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump's administration entered the Fulton County district attorney's race Friday, March 8, 2024, as the current officeholder, Willis, awaits a judge's decision on whether she will be removed from the Georgia election interference case against the former president. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool, File)
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Alec Baldwin seeks dismissal of grand jury indictment in fatal shooting of cinematographer
FILE - Alec Baldwin emcees the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala at New York Hilton Midtown on Dec. 9, 2021, in New York. A jury convicted movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed of involuntary manslaughter Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” Baldwin has been indicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter and has pleaded not guilty ahead of a July trial date. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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James Crumbley, who bought gun used by son to kill four students, guilty of manslaughter in Michigan
James Crumbley enters the Oakland County Courtroom in Michigan, U.S., March 13, 2024 during his trial on four counts of involuntary manslaughter for the four students killed in the 2021 Oxford High School shooting perpetrated by his son Ethan Crumbley. Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press/USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.
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Prosecutors say they’re open to delaying start of Donald Trump’s March 25 hush-money trial
Former President Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. A New York judge says Trump's hush-money trial will go ahead as scheduled with jury selection starting on March 25. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel wins appeal over murder conviction
A man sells Jamaican flags during the friendly match between Jamaica and Panama at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica on May 19, 2019. - They don't have tons of money, sponsors or flashy practice facilities but they didn't let that stop them: Jamaica's 'Reggae Girlz', the women's national football team that did not even exist a few years ago, are heading to France to battle for the World Cup. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images
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Former Quebec judge pleads guilty to manslaughter in wife’s 2009 shooting death
Former Quebec Court of Appeal judge Jacques Delisle, centre, walks to the courtroom in the Quebec City courthouse, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Delisle’s son Jean Delisle, right, walks behind. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
u.s. politics
Judge declines Trump motion to dismiss classified-documents case
This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. A federal judge is set to hear arguments on whether to dismiss the classified documents prosecution of Donald Trump. His lawyers say the former president was entitled under the Presidential Records Act to keep the sensitive documents with him when he left the White House and headed to Florida. (Justice Department via AP)
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Supreme Court ruling on sexual-assault myths unfairly biased against defendants, lawyers argue
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Michelle O'Bonsawin(left), Justice Nicholas Kasirer, Justice Malcolm Rowe, Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, Chief Justice Richard Wagner, Justice Suzanne Cote, Justice Sheilah Martin, Justice Mahmud Jamal and Justice Mary Moreau are seen during a welcome ceremony at the Supreme Court, in Ottawa, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Case of former Quebec judge accused of killing wife to end with guilty plea
Former Quebec judge Jacques Delisle walks to court in Quebec City on June 14, 2012. A former Quebec judge found guilty in 2012 of fatally shooting his wife only to have that verdict overturned last year by the federal justice minister won't face a new trial. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
u.s. politics
Judge dismisses three of 10 charges against Trump in Georgia 2020 election interference case
FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Alyssa Pointer/File Photo
world
Director Roman Polanski is sued over more allegations of sexual assault of a minor
world
Scott Peterson appears virtually in California court as LA Innocence Project takes up murder case
Paula Mitchell, director of the Los Angeles Innocence Project, speaks on behalf of Scott Peterson during a status conference at San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (Andy Alfaro/The Modesto Bee via AP, Pool)
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Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell seeks to overturn sex trafficking conviction
FILE — Audrey Strauss, acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference, July 2, 2020, in New York. Social media is abuzz with news that a judge is about to release a list of "clients," or "associates" or maybe "co-conspirators," of Jeffrey Epstein, the jet-setting financier who killed himself in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. While some previously sealed court records are indeed being made public, the great majority of the people whose names appear in those documents are not accused of any wrongdoing. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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U.S. man sentenced to life in prison for murder, rape in attack on two American women in Germany
FILE - A view of the Pollat gorge with the Neuschwanstein castle, in background in Schwangau, Germany, June 16, 2023. An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday March 11, 2024 for attacking two women from the U.S. near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them. He was sentenced to life in prison. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa via AP, File)
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Supreme Court of Canada affirms appeal review standards, rejects novel approach
<div>The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the standards that appeal courts have long used to review trial judgments, saying they promote the fair assessment of testimony. Supreme Court of Canada Justice Michelle O'Bonsawin, left to right, Justice Nicholas Kasirer, Justice Malcolm Rowe, Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, Chief Justice Richard Wagner, Justice Suzanne Cote, Justice Sheilah Martin, Justice Mahmud Jamal and Justice Mary Moreau are seen during a welcome ceremony at the Supreme Court, in Ottawa, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld</div>
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Former president of Honduras convicted in U.S. of aiding drug traffickers
FILE - In this courtroom sketch from federal court in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, seated center at the defense table, turns to looks at prospective jurors during the jury selection process at the start of his trial. Hernández has been convicted in New York, Friday, March 8, of charges that he conspired with drug traffickers, his military and police to enable tons of cocaine to make it unhindered into the United States. (Elizabeth Williams via AP, File)
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Three-week trial set for Alberta man accused in 1976 death of Calgary teen mom
A three-week trial has been scheduled for next year for an Alberta man accused of killing a teenage girl in 1976. A crest on the Calgary Courts Centre is pictured in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Father of Michigan school shooter facing manslaughter trial
James Crumbley enters the courtroom during his motion hearing at Oakland County Courthouse, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in Pontiac, Mich. (Clarence Tabb Jr./Detroit News via AP, Pool)
world
What to know about the ‘Rust’ shooting case as attention turns to Alec Baldwin’s trial
world
Charges dropped midtrial in ‘Hotel California’ lyrics case; Don Henley plans to fight on
Attorney Stacey Richman, second from left, who represented former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi is joined by other defense attorneys as she speaks to reporters, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in New York. New York prosecutors abruptly dropped their criminal case midtrial Wednesday against three men who had been accused of conspiring to possess a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to "Hotel California" and other Eagles hits. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Ex-Trump deputy Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury over penthouse size
FILE — Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, arrives for former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial at the State Supreme Court building in Manhattan, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The Trump Organization’s ex-finance chief is negotiating a possible perjury plea. Justice Arthur Engoron is considering how that should affect the former president’s punishment. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)