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A judge on Tuesday rejected Bill Cosby’s bid for a new trial or sentencing hearing, leading the comedian’s wife, Camille, to again accuse the judge of bias against her husband.

Bill Cosby’s lawyers have filed a list of 11 alleged trial errors as they try to undo his sexual assault conviction and three- to 10-year prison term.

Texas’ highest criminal appeals court has put on hold an execution that was scheduled for this week.

Bill Cosby’s trial judge is rejecting a defense motion to step down from the sex assault case before Monday’s sentencing hearing in suburban Philadelphia.

The prosecutor in Bill Cosby’s sex-assault case is opposing the actor’s demand that the trial judge step down before this month’s sentencing.

Attorneys for a condemned Texas prisoner asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution scheduled for Wednesday evening for killing a young girl and her grandmother in a gang-related shooting a decade ago that turned a child’s birthday party in Fort Worth into a bloodbath.

People attending Bill Cosby’s sexual assault retrial won’t be allowed in with T-shirts, flowers and other items that show support for one side or the other.

Texas carried out the nation’s first execution of 2018 Thursday evening, giving lethal injection to a man who became known as Houston’s “Tourniquet Killer” because of his signature murder technique on four female victims.

An Austin-area man who represented himself at trial for 13 jewel robberies and attempted robberies has been found guilty of multiple counts.

For more than 20 years, two Kentucky men were in prison because a jury said they killed a woman to curry favor with the devil as part of a satanic ritual.

A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that damaging testimony Bill Cosby gave in an accuser’s lawsuit can be used at his criminal sex assault trial.

The Connecticut Supreme Court has overturned a $12 million jury verdict against the Boy Scouts of America in the case of a boy who alleged he was sexually assaulted by an older boy in his troop in the mid-1970s.

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal to stop Texas from enforcing its challenged voter ID law. But the court said it could revisit the issue as the November elections approach.

The oldest condemned man in Texas has died at age 78 of natural causes.

Testimony stopped Thursday morning when the defense filed a motion for recusal of the judge.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made his first campaign appearance late Thursday since being indicted on securities fraud charges, but only vaguely alluded to his legal troubles while addressing about 800 cheering supporters at a tea party rally.

A Texas judge has halted the execution of an inmate convicted of stabbing a corrections officer to death more than 15 years ago.