Trial

The 12 jurors chosen this past week to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.

The trial of Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth police officer charged with murdering Atatiana Jefferson inside her own home, was all set to start next week. But now, another delay, and it means the trial likely won’t begin for months. NBC 5’s Scott Gordon reports.

The leader of a megachurch with 5 million followers worldwide was sentenced to 16 years and eight months in prison Wednesday for sexual abuse.

Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty Tuesday by a judge in his Boston sexual misconduct trial. Batali is charged with indecent assault and battery over a 2017 incident at a Back Bay restaurant. Boston Municipal Court Judge James Stanton found Batali not guilty, saying the complaining witness had “credibility issues” and found there was not enough evidence to...

The celebrity chef is accused of forcibly kissing and groping a woman at a Boston restaurant in 2017 after inviting her to take a selfie together.

A judge in former Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean’s trial has denied Dean’s defense team their motion for a change of venue.

Day three of testimony in the re-trial of suspected serial killer Billy Chemirmir linked to 18 murders.

Jury selection begins Thursday for the retrial of an accused North Texas serial killer. Billy Chemirmir’s first trial ended with a hung during the fall of 2021.

Jurors received an up-close look at the calculated planning of Shavon Randle’s kidnapping back in June 2017 during the second day of testimony in the trial of a man accused of plotting and executing a retaliation over stolen drugs.

After more than a week of testimony, a jury deliberated only a few hours Thursday before delivering a guilty verdict into whether a former Los Angeles Angels staffer was responsible for the 2019 death of one of the team’s pitchers, Tyler Skaggs.

Five more witnesses have testified in the trial of a former Los Angeles Angels employee and his alleged role in pitcher Tyler Skaggs’ death.

More witnesses took the stand Wednesday in the trial of a former Los Angeles Angels employee over his alleged role in the death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

Lawyer Pat Harris said Peterson’s legal team ‘absolutely’ has new evidence that would be presented if he is granted a new trial in the murder of his wife and unborn son.

The long-awaited trial of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s confidant Ghislaine Maxwell begins Monday.

Families of those who believe Billy Chemirmir killed their loved ones have been at court all week as prosecutors laid out their case that Chemirmir stalked, smothered and stole from his victims. Families say they are emotionally exhausted and disappointed – but not deterred in eventually seeing justice.

Dan Singer with The Dallas Morning News joins NBC 5 to discuss the 1980 case of Candy Montgomery, whose sensational trial will be retold in two streaming services.

The capital murder trial of Glen Samuel McCurley, the man accused in the 1974 kidnapping and murder of 17-year-old Western Hills High School junior Carla Jan Walker, began Friday morning with opening statements and graphic crime scene images shown to jurors.

A prosecutor described sex abuse claims against R&B star R. Kelly Wednesday, saying the long-anticipated trial now underway is “about a predator” who used his fame to entice girls, boys and young women before dominating and controlling them physically, sexually and psychologically for at least three decades. “This case is not about a celebrity who likes to party a lot,” Assistant...

Starting this week, what prosecutors say was a not-so-secret dark side of R&B superstar R. Kelly will be presented in lurid detail for a jury in New York City.

After several days, the jury has found businessman Ruel Hamilton guilty on three of four counts in his federal bribery trial.