The Third Circuit Court of Appeals declined to throw out Biden's federal firearms charges, saying they could not consider Biden's appeals until a final judgment is reached at trial.
SANTA FE — The New Mexico Supreme Court reversed two lower courts’ rulings, ordering that crime victims’ visa information must remain confidential and is not to be made available to the defense counsel of accused criminals for potential use in trials. Subpoenas compelling the production of T- and U-visas are quashed, as victims’ privacy rights prevail.
"The importance and significance for this case is not lost on me, not only for Google but for the public," U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said. "Whatever the outcome ... it will hopefully instill trust in the public."
Guo become an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party and developed a close relationship with Steve Bannon after leaving China.
Hicks, a former top Trump White house official and trusted adviser, testified as to the Trump campaign’s handling of the “Access Hollywood” tape and denials of other rumored affairs around the time of the 2016 election.
Daybell is accused of murdering his ex-wife and two of his current wife's children in 2019 as part his doomsday beliefs.
In the first of two marathon hearings, a federal judge focused on Google's dominance in the search market, where it holds an 89.2% market share.
Defense cross-examination of the lawyer who arranged hush money payments to bury two women's stories of affairs with Trump was peppered with references to tabloid celebrity gossip from the past two decades.
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court ruled that police lacked reasonable suspicion to search a criminal defendant’s car. Though the search turned up drugs and a revolver, the evidence must be suppressed because his behavior in a high-crime area — ducking out of sight, fiddling with his shoes and refusing to acknowledge the police officers — were not acts of outright evasion, so and they did not combine to support a reasonable suspicion that he was involved in illegal conduct.
The trial, which has been on hold since November, centers on whether the tech giant holds a monopoly over internet search, and could result in Google selling off core parts of its business.
HONOLULU — The Hawaii Court of Appeals ruled that a prosecutor misrepresented blood and witness evidence during closing arguments against a man accused of stabbing a teen girl unprovoked. The prosecutor conflated defendant with a person who was seen washing blood, though testimony did not establish these were the same person, and alluded to stains on defendant’s shirt as being blood, though this was not established. This amounts to prosecutorial misconduct and a new trial is ordered.
