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A New York City judge has set a trial date of March 25, 2024, for former President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records. A New York City judge has set a trial date of March 25, 2024, for former President Donald Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records. The former president appeared, virtually, in a Manhattan court Tuesday before the judge presiding over his criminal case. Trump, sitting side-by-side with his attorney Todd Blanche, his hands folded on the table, scowled into the camera when Judge Juan Merchan announced the trial date, possibly because the date conflicts with the GOP primary calendar as Trump seeks to reclaim the presidency. MORE: Judge in Trump criminal case issues protective order to prevent sharing of evidence Merchan has previously indicated that no one associated with the case is allowed to schedule anything that would co NFL ict with the trial , which would seemingly including any campaign appeara...

Garcia Luna, the former Mexican secretary of public security, was arrested in Dallas in 2019 and charged with narcotics trafficking conspiracy. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court in the corruption trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, once head of the Mexican equivalent of the FBI, who has been accused by the United States of accepting million-dollar bribes from the cartel once controlled by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Garcia Luna, the former Mexican secretary of public security, was arrested in Dallas in 2019 and charged with narcotics trafficking conspiracy for assisting the Sinaloa cartel. The charges resulted from the trial of El Chapo when a witness testified he had given Garcia Luna briefcases of cash. Genaro Garcia Luna at the Mexican Congress in Mexico City on Nov. 30, 2006. Gustavo Graf/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE MORE: Ovidio Guzman, son of El Chapo and alleged major fentanyl trafficker, arrested in Mexico "As alleged, for nea...

Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh is about to put his fate before a small-town jury As his life unraveled over the past two years, disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh didn't fight giving up his law license and said he made plenty of mistakes tied to missing client money and a financial mess that led to 100 criminal charges. But he has adamantly insisted, from the moment he found the bodies of his wife and youngest son both shot multiple times at the family's estate in June 2021, that he was not the killer. Beginning Monday, it will be up to 12 jurors to decide if they agree. Lawyers expect jury selection to last several days before testimony begins. It took state agents 13 months of investigation to charge Murdaugh with two counts of murder, and a judge has set aside three weeks for the trial. Murdaugh insisted on the trial as soon as possible. Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty, but said they will ask for life without parole if Murdaugh is c...