The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls slain in 2017 during a hiking trip was moved Tuesday from January to next October after the presiding judge told the suspect she will not allow his former attorneys to represent him.
A trial court’s remark endorsing “80% certainty” as a description of the reasonable doubt standard was improper but did not rise to the level of fundamental error for a woman convicted of murder in a fatal robbery, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Monday.
A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictment by an Illinois grand jury.
An Idaho judge on Thursday declined to dismiss a grand jury indictment against a man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students.
The man convicted of killing Southport Police Lt. Aaron Allan has lost his arguments on appeal that due process violations and insufficient evidence undercut his murder conviction.
A man convicted of fatally shooting his wife and a bystander and injuring a third person at a southern Indiana gas station last year was sentenced to 240 years in prison Wednesday.
Text messages and rap lyrics introduced over a man’s hearsay objections were admissible and there was sufficient evidence for his murder and attempted murder convictions and 143-year aggregate sentence, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Monday.
A manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Maryland judge continued for a fourth day Sunday as authorities completed their search of an area where the suspect’s SUV was found.
The trial for an Indiana man charged in the killings of two teenage girls is expected to be delayed after his defense attorneys withdrew from the case Thursday amid questions about security of evidence.
After previously overturning the conviction of the man convicted of murdering Indiana University student Jill Behrman, the Indiana Southern District Court on remand has declined to grant habeas relief to John Myers a second time.
An appeals court in South Carolina is allowing Alex Murdaugh to ask a judge to throw out his murder convictions and life sentence and get a new trial after his lawyers accused the court clerk in his trial of influencing the jury.
Evidence found in the bedroom of a man charged as a teen with three killings can be admitted at the man’s murder trial after the Indiana Supreme Court declined to review the reversal of a suppression order.
A man pleaded guilty to charges Thursday in connection with the fatal 2021 shooting of Chicago police officer Ella French and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
A 24-year-old woman has been charged in a June shooting that killed three people and sent others running in panic through an Indianapolis entertainment district, authorities said.
Maryland’s highest court is considering whether the rights of a murder victim’s family were violated when Adnan Syed ‘s conviction in the killing was vacated last fall, years after his case gained national attention through the hit podcast “Serial.”
A murder suspect who was mistakenly released two weeks ago from jail in Indianapolis was captured Wednesday by the U.S. Marshals Service in Minnesota, where he faces charges in a 2021 killing, police said.
The prosecutor overseeing the case against a northern Indiana man charged in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls has dismissed as “fanciful” a recent court filing by the man’s attorneys contending the girls actually died as part of a ritual sacrifice.
A judge sentenced a central Indiana man to 195 years in prison Tuesday on his convictions of three counts of murder in the 2021 execution-style slayings of three people.
A Muncie man has been charged with murdering his ex-wife who had been reported missing and was later found dead at an abandoned house.
A man wanted for a 2021 killing in Minnesota was mistakenly released from jail in Indianapolis last week and authorities are now offering a reward of up to $10,000 as they continue searching for him.