Jury selection

New York City Comptroller John Liu - File / Photo: Office of the Comptroller

Campaign Finance Trial For Two Former Liu Associates Under Way

City Comptroller John Liu has not been charged and is not expected to testify in the conspiracy case. But the trial could complicate his bid for higher office in what’s turning into a hotly contested mayoral race.

2013/04/15

Roger Clemens (left) and his lawyer, Rusty Hardin (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Like An MLB Snoozer, Jury Selection Drags In Roger Clemens Retrial

The mind-numbing task of choosing a jury for Clemens’ retrial has gone on for two days and might not be done by the end of the week.

2012/04/18

Jury Selection In Bathtub Murder Trial May Begin This Week

Kleber Cordova is accused of drowning his wife in a bathtub at their Morristown home three years ago.

2012/01/22

Joshua Komisarjevsky (L) and Steven Hayes (R) (credit: handout)

Jury Selection Continues In 2nd Cheshire Home Invasion Trial

The trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky started last week with jury selection, a process that could take months as prospective jurors are questioned by prosecutors and defense attorneys.

2011/03/20

Muzzammil Hassan, right, speaks with his attorney Jeremy Schwartz after opening statements during his trial in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Hassan is accused of stabbing and decapitating his wife, Aasiya Hassan, in 2009 inside the studios of Bridges TV. The Pakistan-born couple founded the station to counter negative images of Muslims after 9/11. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

NY Beheading Suspect Seeks To Represent Himself

A handcuffed Muzzammil Hassan was escorted from the Buffalo courtroom by a half dozen court officers after a strident appeal to Erie County Judge Thomas Franczyk that failed to change the judge’s mind.

2011/01/21

Aasiya Zubair and Muzzammil Hassan (credit: HO/AFP/Getty Images)

Opening Statements Set For Wife Beheading Trial

Opening statements in the second-degree murder trial of Muzzammil Hassan were scheduled to start Tuesday in Erie County Court in Buffalo.

2011/01/18

First Day Produces No Jurors For Wife Beheading Trial

Potential jurors are being asked whether they have issues with the Pakistan-born Hassan’s ethnicity, or the fact that he’s Muslim and may claim self-defense.

2011/01/11

Government Witness Solomon Dwek (credit: CBS 2)

Testimony Continues In Ex-NJ Lawmaker’s Trial

L. Harvey Smith has pleaded not guilty to several extortion, bribery and money laundering counts.

2010/12/02

Opening Statements Set For Former N.J. Lawmaker’s Trial

L. Harvey Smith was accused of taking $15,000 from a government informant after promising he would help with environmental permits for the informant’s building project in Jersey City.

2010/12/01

Jury Yet To Be Seated For Former Lawmaker’s Trial

Attorneys will return Tuesday to pick a jury for Smith’s bribery and extortion trial.

2010/11/30

NJ Councilman’s Attorney Wants Testimony Tossed

Small was one of a dozen defendants accused of trying to swing the June 2009 Democratic mayoral primary through the use of fraudulent absentee ballots.

2010/10/06

Jury Selection To Begin In NJ Ballot Fraud Case

The trial will shine a light on the use of such ballots in the nation’s second-largest gambling market. The ballots have been used to swing the outcome of elections for years.

2010/10/04