NEW YORK — In a packed New York courtroom, Ed Sheeran picked up his guitar Thursday and launched into a tune that has him locked in a copyright dispute over Marvin Gaye’s soul classic “Let’s Get it On” as the only audience that mattered — a jury — looked on. Though he’s performed with some of the world’s great artists …
CHICAGO — Jurors began deliberating Tuesday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in Chicago, sorting through a month of evidence and arguments on charges accusing the singer of producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child porn trial. “Robert Kelly abused many girls over many years,” Pozolo said, referring to Kelly’s full name. Widespread outrage emerged after …
A jury in the West Flanders region of Belgium has sentenced a 29-year-old Dutch man to life imprisonment, and ten years in a psychiatric institution, for the 2017 murder of his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend, her grandparents, and a photographer for whom the then young woman sometimes modeled. The next day he also stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Maïlys Descamps, in her home in …
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A jury weighing the fate of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes got its first chance Friday to listen to recordings of her boasting to investors about purported breakthroughs in a blood-testing technology. The drama unfolded in a San Jose, California, courtroom with federal prosecutors playing a series of recordings from a December 2013 conference call …