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A jury has found 54-year-old Kim Walker of Yorkton, Sask., guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of his daughter's boyfriend eight years ago. The 12 jurors could have found Walker guilty of second-degree murder, but opted for the less-serious charge. A second-degree murder conviction...

The jury in Kim Walker's murder trial continued its deliberations in Yorkton, Sask., for a second day, but did not reach a verdict. The jury will be back for a third day on Thursday. Walker, 54, is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of his daughter's boyfriend James...

(CNN) -- With 16 men and women having cleared various hurdles, the jury that will decide Casey Anthony's fate rounded further into shape Thursday -- setting the stage for opening arguments next week in the much-hyped trial. Five more people -- three women and two men -- were deemed to be viable...

The trial of a Fredericton Police officer charged with the assault of an off-duty soldier resumed Monday after a three-month adjournment and heard from an expert on restraint techniques. Const. Stephen Stafford walked into court holding his wife's hand Monday morning. Then both T. J. Burke...

TAMPA, Fla. – Fresh off a Grammy win, Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton is set to stand trial again in federal court in Florida. Jury selection will begin Monday in Tampa. Banton is accused of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover officer and faces up to life in prison. The jury...

A former Vernon, B.C., elementary school teacher is on trial for allegedly having more than 200 sexual encounters with one of her students. Deborah Ashton, now 45, was charged in 2008 with invitation to sexual touching, sexual assault and touching for sexual purposes a person under 14 years of...

The foster father of a 13-month-old boy who died while in the care of a native-run social services agency has been committed to stand trial for murder, RCMP said Wednesday. Cameron Ouskan arrived at Gillam Hospital on Nov. 12, 2008, in life-threatening condition. The boy was later airlifted to...

-- Indonesia's latest attempt to charge a fiery Islamic cleric on terrorism charges was swiftly adjourned moments after it started in a south Jakarta court Thursday. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir could face the death penalty under fresh charges, which include planning and/or inciting a terrorist act and...

The jury trial for a man accused in a slaying at a downtown transit centre on Canada Day 2009 started Tuesday in an Edmonton courtroom. Augustine Darren Poitras faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of Shane Howarth, 42. Howarth was killed at the transit centre at 100th St. and...

Lawyers for both U.S. student Amanda Knox, who is in jail in Italy for the killing of her British housemate, and the victim's family are seeking to stop a film about the trial, which has now reached the appeals stage. The lawyers for Knox and Meredith Kercher's family said they had formally...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/06/candiotti.iran.us.hikers.trial.cnn -- The trial of three U.S. hikers charged with espionage in Iran is expected to continue in the next few weeks, according to the office of the lawyer representing them and a diplomatic official. The next date for...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/09/24/snow.sarah.shourd.speaks.cnn -- The trial of three U.S. hikers started Sunday in Iran, according to the office of the lawyer representing them. Iran accuses Americans Shane Bauer, 28, Josh Fattal, 28, and Sarah Shourd, 32, of spying and trespassing...

NEW YORK -- A judge sentenced the first Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial to life in prison Tuesday, saying anything he suffered at the hands of the CIA and others "pales in comparison to the suffering and the horror" caused by the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998...

The jury hearing testimony in the second-degree murder trial of Gordon Hurley was shown this picture of the victim, Jarita Naistus, with her boyfriend Myron Smith, one day before the woman was killed. A man appearing as a witness in a second-degree murder trial has been accused of killing the...

Erika Mendieta, 34, was found guilty of manslaughter by a Toronto judge in the beating death of her toddler, who died in 2003. An Ontario Superior Court justice has found a Toronto mother guilty of manslaughter in the 2003 beating death of her two-year-old daughter, ending a trial plagued by...

Muzzammil Hassan goes on trial Tuesday in the beheading death of his wife, Aasiya Hassan. - The trial of a New York television executive accused of beheading his wife starts Tuesday. Authorities learned about the incident in February 2009 when Muzzammil Hassan went to a police station in the...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/11/bc-mountie-perjury.html A retired RCMP officer has been charged with one count of perjury for his testimony at the 2009 trial of a B.C. woman convicted of killing her own child. Vancouver police announced the charge in a news release...

Convicted Air India bomber Inderjit Singh Reyat was sentenced Friday in Vancouver to nine years for perjury stemming from his time as a Crown witness during a 2003 trial. In handing down his sentence, B.C. Supreme Court Judge Mark McEwan said Reyat was "nothing like a remorseful man." McEwan...

The murder trial of American college student Amanda Knox is recreated in a television movie that had the actors debating her innocence or guilt. "It's one of those really riveting stories where you just don't know," Hayden Panettiere, who plays Knox, told television writers on Friday. "I can't...

The U.S. State Department expresses concern over the trial of jailed Russian oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky, calling the case "an abusive use of the legal system." http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/12/30/qmb.chance.khodorkovsky.cnn A judge in Moscow sentenced Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the...