NY v. Pedro Hernandez
2016-03-07 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Pedro Hernandez is charged with the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz. He was not arrested until 2012. A jury deadlocked 11-1 for conviction at his first trial in 2015. Today is a control date; jury selection was scheduled for a week from today. After today’s hearing, the trial was postponed. The next date is May 23–a control date. The trial is expected to begin in September.

Bill Cosby Preliminary Hearing--Stayed
2016-03-08 09:00 - 17:00
Cosby’s preliminary hearing in Norristown, PA was originally scheduled for this day. On March 1, an appellate court temporarily stayed the hearing pending an appeal. Cosby is facing charges related to the alleged sexual assault of Andrea Constand in 2004.

Decision in MD Court of Appeals
2016-03-08 10:00 - 12:00
Maryland’s highest court issued a decision today ordering that Officer William Porter testify against all five of the other Baltimore officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death.

Brian Rice/Baltimore Cop Trial to Begin
2016-03-09 08:00 - 17:00
Rice’s trial is on hold pending the outcome of the March 3 argument in the MD Court of Appeals regarding the compelled testimony of Officer Porter in Rice’s trial and that of the other four officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death.

Camille Cosby Deposition Stayed for Now
2016-03-14 09:00 - 17:00
Bill Cosby’s wife was scheduled to continue her deposition begun on Feb. 22 in a Springfield, MA hotel. Bill Cosby is being sued for defamation by seven women who claim he drugged and sexually assaulted them. On Feb. 22, the plaintiffs’ attorney said she was reserved, did not shed a tear, and relied on privilege a number of times. He is exploring the nature of the marital relationship. After her Feb. 22 deposition, Bill Cosby’s attorneys filed a motion to stay the entire defamation case (including Camille’s deposition) until the Pennsylvania criminal matter is resolved.

Ernest Wallace Trial
2016-03-14 09:00 - 17:00
Ernest Wallace is charged as an accomplice w(ith former NFL player Aaron Hernandez) in the June 2013 murder of Odin Lloyd in Massachusetts. Hernandez was convicted after trial in 2015 though he always denied being the shooter. Opening statements in Wallace’s trial are scheduled for today in Bristol County, Mass.

Dippolito Hearing on Attorney Order to Show Cause/Bail Revocation
2016-03-22 16:00 - 17:00
Dalia Dippolito’s California attorney, Brian Claypool, held a press conference at the conclusion of the motion to dismiss hearing last month. Claypool suggested that if the judge denied the motion, he was buckling to sensationalism and community pressure. The motion was, indeed, denied on March 2, 2016. On the same day, the judge issued an order to show cause why Claypool should be allowed to continue representing Dippolito in light of apparent violations of the Florida Code of Professional Responsibility that governs attorneys’ conduct. The order to show cause is on the Dippolito page under documents. The judge has also set today for a hearing on the State’s motion to revoke Dippolito’s bail based on her ABCNews interview conducted late last year. Apparently, she did not seek permission from her house arrest for this interview. The State’s motion is also on on the Dippolito page.

Raymond Dear/Status Conference
2016-03-24 10:30 - 12:00

Donald Blankenship Sentencing Hearing
2016-04-06 09:00 - 17:00
Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy, was convicted last December of a misdemeanor–conspiring to violate safety regulations–after an April 5, 2010 coal mine explosion killed 29 of his employees in West Virginia. The jury acquitted him of 2 other counts, both of which were felonies. Today he was sentenced to one year in federal prison and fined $250,000. He will also be on one year of supervised release after serving his sentence.

Justin Ross Harris Trial
2016-04-11 09:00 - 17:00
Harris is charged with murder after leaving his 22-month-old son in a hot Georgia car in June 2014. Harris went to work and discovered his son dead hours later. He says it was an accident; that he forgot to drop off his son at daycare. Jury selection in Cobb County, GA is scheduled to begin this day.

Bob Bashara Post-Conviction Hearing
2016-04-12 09:00 - 17:00

Camille Cosby Deposition to Continue
2016-04-19 09:00 - 17:00
Camille Cosby, Bill Cosby’s wife, is to continue her deposition begun in February. Today’s testimony will be given in Boston; in February, the parties met in Springfield. Her testimony is related to a defamation suit against her husband by a number of women who claim he sexually assaulted them years ago.

Bob Bashara Post-Conviction Hearing Continues
2016-04-21 09:00 - 17:00

Robert Durst Sentencing in Federal Case
2016-04-27 09:00 - 17:00
Robert Durst received a 7 year prison sentence after pleading guilty in federal court to possession of gun charges in Louisiana. He is expected to transfer to California by mid-August where the LA District Attorney will proceed with a murder case against him.

Dennis Hastert Sentencing Hearing
2016-04-27 10:00 - 17:00
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert will be sentenced today for money laundering. He is expected to receive no more than a 6-month sentence for his guilty plea last year related to hush money he paid to an alleged sex abuse victim. An alleged victim sued him in Illinois state court on 4/25/16 demanding the $1.8 million balance of the $3.5 million in promised hush money.

Robert Dear Competency Hearing
2016-04-28 09:00 - 17:00
Robert Dear is accused of 3 counts of murder for a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood facility. He’s competency to stand trial is challenged at a hearing today.

Charles Merritt Hearing
2016-04-29 09:00 - 17:00
Charles Merritt is charged with murdering the McStay family in 2010. The McStays disappeared from their family home in Feb. 2010 and were found in shallow graves in San Bernardino County in Nov. 2013. Merritt, a business associate of Joseph McStay, is now accused of 4 counts of capital murder.

Jerry Sandusky Hearing
2016-05-02 09:00 - 17:00

Charles Merritt Hearing
2016-05-05 09:00 - 17:00
The evidentiary hearing scheduled for today was continued to June 3.

Edward Nero/Baltimore Cop Trial to Begin
2016-05-10 09:00 - 17:00
Edward Nero is the first of the officers charged with Freddie Gray’s death to go to trial since the mistrial of Officer William Porter and the subsequent appeals. Porter is expected to be a witness for the State against Nero and the remaining four officers to be tried between now and October. Nero’s trial is scheduled to begin today.

Hearing Continues in Planned Parenthood Shooter Case
2016-05-10 09:00 - 17:00
The competency hearing in the murder case against Robert Dear continues today in a Colorado courtroom. On May 11, 2016, the judge found Dear incompetent to stand trial—at least for now.

Custody Hearing/Mark Sievers Case
2016-05-11 09:00 - 17:00
Teresa Sievers’s mother has custody of Teresa and Mark’s two daughters. Bonnie Siever, mother Mark, is challenging the custody. Her motion will be heard today. Teresa Sievers was murdered in June 2015. Her husband, Mark, is charged with murder.

Hearing in John Charlton Murder Case
2016-05-11 09:00 - 17:00
John Charlton, 37, is charged with murder for killing and dismembering Ingrid Lyne, 40, in April 2016. Charlton and Lyne had recently started dating. Lyne was a nurse and mother of three. He has a court appearance today in a Seattle, WA courtroom.

Drew Peterson Trial
2016-05-20 09:00 - 17:00
Drew Peterson, serving a 38-year sentence for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, now faces murder-for-hire charges for allegedly soliciting an inmate to murder prosecutor James Glasgow who handled the 2012 murder trial. The murder-for-hire trial is scheduled to begin today in Illinois.

Jerry Sandusky Hearing/Cancelled
2016-05-20 09:00 - 17:00
Sandusky has been granted this Post Conviction Relief Hearing to prove allegations he raised earlier this month: that the Attorney General and the judge overseeing the grand jury investigation withheld Brady (exculpatory) material from the defense and that the Attorney General improperly leaked grand jury information in order to locate additional victims. On May 18, Judge Cleland cancelled the hearing with no explanation. It will be rescheduled.

Dalia Dippolito Retrial Starts (UPDATE: Trial Postponed)
2016-05-23 08:00 - 17:00
Dippolito is charged with hiring a hit man in 2009 to arrange her husband’s death. But the hit man was an undercover cop. She was charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder. Dippolito was convicted after trial in 2011 and sentenced to 20 years. Her conviction was overturned in 2014. She now faces a retrial. In late April, the retrial originally scheduled to begin today, was postponed because Dippolito is appealing the judge’s decision not to dismiss the charges.

Verdict in Baltimore Cop Case to be Announced
2016-05-23 09:00 - 17:00
Officer Edward Nero chose to waive a jury and let Judge Barry Williams decide his fate. Nero is charged with assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office related to event surrounding the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in April 2015. Evidence finished last Wednesday; closing arguments were last Thursday. Judge Williams said he would announce his verdict today.

NY v. Pedro Hernandez
2016-05-23 09:30 - 17:00
Pedro Hernandez is charged with the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz. He was not arrested until 2012. A jury deadlocked 11-1 for conviction at his first trial in 2015. He is facing a retrial in September. Today is a control date.

Bashara Post-Conviction Hearing Resumes
2016-05-24 09:00 - 17:00

Bill Cosby Preliminary Hearing
2016-05-24 09:30 - 17:00
Bill Cosby’s preliminary hearing in Norristown, PA is scheduled for today. It had been scheduled for March but was stayed while Cosby appealed the judge’s decision not to dismiss the aggravated indecent sexual assault charge. It is alleged that he assaulted Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, at his home in Montgomery County, PA in 2004. Newly-elected District Attorney Kevin Steele filed the charges last December. Bruce Castor, the DA at the time the allegations were reported in 2005, chose not to file charges.
