It’s no surprise murder trials capture widespread interest. The details leading up to the crime as well as evidence uncovered during the investigation allow everyday people to feel like part of the ...

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The two Donald Trump civil lawsuits in New York provide useful lessons about litigation when it comes to anonymous juries and unanimous verdicts, and how the defense should operate when they are ...

On Thursday morning, a day after being fined ten thousand dollars for violating a gag order at his New York civil trial, Donald Trump was back home in Florida doing precisely what got him sanctioned ...

An attorney for E. Jean Carroll said the lesson from the recent trial with former President Trump was that “lies are gonna catch up to you someday.” “I believe very strongly after today, that the ...

When he was hauled before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee in 1949, Julius Emspak, secretary-treasurer of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, decided to teach the committee a ...

RANDOLPH, NJ- A mock trial is a simulated court trial where participants act as lawyers, witnesses, judges, and jurors. Mock trials help students learn about our judicial system while practicing ...

This past December marked 37 years since the end of the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge, whose warped ideology and systematic violence brought death to a quarter of Cambodia’s eight million people.