by Beth Karas | Feb 16, 2016 | News, Member News, Jodi Arias |
Two incidents have Jodi Arias back in the news: Juan Martinez’s much-anticipated book is finally out and Arias was recently disciplined at Perryville, the prison where she is spending the rest of her life. Martinez is on a book tour—in New York, as I write...
by Beth Karas | Feb 12, 2016 | News, Member News |
I wrote this piece for LawNewz.com which was published yesterday. As many of you know, I covered Warren Jeffs’s sexual assault trial in San Angelo, Texas in the summer of 2011. But I’ve followed issues surrounding the FLDS for years. I hope the current...
by Beth Karas | Feb 10, 2016 | News, Freddie Gray, Member News |
A few weeks ago, Judge Barry Williams denied the prosecution’s request to compel Baltimore police officer William Porter to testify in the three trials still on the court’s calendar (and not tied up in the appellate court). Officer Edward Nero’s...
by Beth Karas | Feb 9, 2016 | News, Member News, Jodi Arias |
A number of you have reacted to Kirk Nurmi’s recent opinion piece published in the New York Daily News about how live trial coverage can adversely affect a trial and its participants when it becomes a “reality TV show.” As far as I know,...
by Beth Karas | Feb 8, 2016 | News, Member News |
A Baltimore Circuit Court set aside three days for a post-conviction hearing last week in the case of Adnan Syed, convicted of the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. He was sentenced to life plus 30 years. The hearing, however, was not completed last...
by Beth Karas | Feb 8, 2016 | News, Member News |
A Baltimore Circuit Court set aside three days for a post-conviction hearing last week in the case of Adnan Syed, convicted of the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. He was sentenced to life plus 30 years. The hearing, however, was not completed last...
