The Latest Breaking News from District Court

NEW YORK — Chicago-born R&B superstar R. Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, punctuating a remarkable fall from grace after decades of sexual misconduct allegations.

Noel Long with an address at 28 Maulbawn, Passage West, Co. Cork appeared before Judge James McNulty at a sitting of Skibbereen District Court where he was formally charged with the murder of Mrs Sheehan.

A jury has been discharged in the Brisbane District Court trial of a man accused of raping a female friend while he was in a long-term gay relationship.

Praveen Subramanya Bhat was earlier convicted by the Additional District Court

The Louisiana legislature adjourned a special redistricting session on June 18 without approving revised congressional district boundaries. Governor John Bel Edwards (D) had called the special session on June 7 after the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana struck down the state’s congressional district map and…

After six weeks of evidence, a district court jury will decide whether James Anthony Cunneen is guilty of helping to cover up the murder of Carly McBride

The defendant is one Rovier Carrington, who "sued Hollywood executives alleging that the executives had sexually assaulted him, and that they had defrauded him in connection with a decision to refuse to produce [his] reality television program."

On June 17 2022, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel issued a statement confirming she had approved the US government’s request to extradite Julian Assange. The Australian founder of Wikileaks faces 18 criminal charges of computer misuse and espionage.

On June 8, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed two district court decisions dismissing challenges to California’s deduction of union dues from Medicaid payments to home care providers. The panel issued a single opinion after consolidating the two appeals. 

Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men will have their sentences vacated posthumously

A District Court judge has described the child exploitation market as a "serious social evil", before sparing a former South Australian Labor staffer jail for viewing and sending child abuse material.