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Jury dispute triggers mistrial on Harvey Weinstein rape charge
AFP, Published on 12/06/2025
» NEW YORK — The judge in the Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial declared a mistrial on the outstanding rape charge against the movie producer Thursday, after the jury foreperson refused to return to deliberate the count amid a jury room feud.
Amber Heard agrees to pay Johnny Depp $1m in defamation case
AFP, Published on 20/12/2022
» WASHINGTON: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have settled their acrimonious defamation case, they said Monday, with the actress agreeing to pay her former husband US$1 million over claims he physically abused her.
Can Italy's Dante get justice, 700 years after his death?
AFP, Published on 12/03/2021
» FLORENCE: Dante's "Divine Comedy," considered one of the world's greatest literary works, came to light after a miscarriage of justice which Italian legal experts now want to correct -- some seven centuries on.
When the innocent fall victim
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 19/10/2020
» Two years ago, anti-death penalty advocates were surprised by Thailand's first execution in nine years when 26-year-old Teerasak Longji was executed at Bangkok's Bang Kwang Central Prison by lethal injection for aggravated murder.
A call for justice
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/10/2020
» What would it be like if you spent more than half your life isolated in a tiny cell in fear, not knowing what the future holds? That's exactly what happened to Iwao Hakamada, who every morning woke up thinking today could be his last. Hakamada, a new documentary, tells the heart-rending tale of a death row convict kept in solitary confinement for more than half-a-century before being granted a retrial in 2014.
Actor Geoffrey Rush wins 'largest ever' Australian defamation payout
AFP, Published on 02/07/2020
» SYDNEY: Hollywood star Geoffrey Rush won a record multimillion-dollar payout Thursday after an appeal by a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper against a defamation ruling was thrown out by an Australian court.
Samsung heir's corruption retrial hangs over phonemaker
AFP, Published on 23/10/2019
» SEOUL: The heir to the Samsung empire returns to court on Friday for a retrial over a sprawling corruption scandal that could see him return to prison and deprive the world's largest smartphone and chip manufacturer of its top decision-maker.
Jury tells Samsung to pay big for copying iPhone design
AFP, Published on 25/05/2018
» SAN JOSE: - A federal court jury on Thursday ordered Samsung to pay Apple $533 million for copying iPhone design features in a patent case dating back seven years.
US jury begins deliberations in Cosby trial
AFP, Published on 25/04/2018
» NORRISTOWN, US - A Pennsylvania jury retired Wednesday to begin deliberations in Bill Cosby's sexual assault retrial to determine whether or not the disgraced megastar drugged and molested a young woman 14 years ago.