Sean Piccoli

Two trials play out in the new Apple TV+ adaptation of lawyer-novelist Scott Turow's 1988 bestselling legal thriller, Presumed Innocent: the criminal case against a Chicago prosecutor charged with murdering a colleague, and the nightmare at home that the murder trial visits on the family of the…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, marking his successful prosecution and conviction of former President Donald Trump, credited the result as an example of his department’s enforcement of the law “without fear or favor.” “While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we…

A jury in New York City today found former president Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a conspiracy to keep a potential sex scandal from derailing his first presidential campaign.  He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, just days before the start of…

UPDATED, 2:10 PM: Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. UPDATED, 1:39 PM: Jurors deliberating in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial have reached a verdict. Judge Juan Merchan announced that the jurors had sent a note informing them of…

UPDATE: Jurors in Donald Trump's New York hush money trial went home early today after they asked Judge Juan Merchan to re-read them some or possibly all of the 53 pages of instructions that he delivered to them this morning ahead of deliberations. It was the second jury note in the space of an hour from…

UPDATE: Closing arguments in Donald Trump's hush money trial ended tonight almost 11 hours after they began, with a prosecutor telling jurors that the former president's "intent to defraud … could not be any clearer," according to multiple news outlets.  Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joshua…

UPDATED, with Trump response: Robert De Niro was the surprise guest of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign for a press conference outside the Manhattan courthouse where closing arguments are taking place in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. De Niro, who recently narrated a Biden campaign ad, warned of…

UPDATE: The testimony is done in Donald Trump's hush money trial, and the jurors are off until next Tuesday, but Judge Juan Merchan still found cause this afternoon to call out one of Trump's lawyers.  Merchan scolded lawyer Emil Bove during a conference on jury instructions for trying to resurrect a…

UPDATE: A "suicidal" Michael Cohen said he almost threw himself off a 21-story building on Park Avenue in Manhattan because he saw no other way out after an FBI raid turned him into a federal criminal target, a lawyer testified this afternoon in the hush money trial of Cohen's former boss, Donald…

UPDATE: Michael Cohen appeared to win a battle this afternoon over how reliable his memory is of eight-year-old phone calls with Donald Trump, after faltering in an earlier round of cross-examination questioning today in the former president's hush money trial in New York. Before a lunch break, Trump…

UPDATED: Donald Trump's attorney in the former president's hush money trial went straight at the prosecution's star witness, Michael Cohen, kicking off a profanity-laced cross examination. To start off, Todd Blanche introduced himself to Cohen, saying that although they'd never met "you went on…

UPDATE: Donald Trump approved a plan to repay hush money for Stormy Daniels to his lawyer Michael Cohen in a meeting at Trump Tower days before his inauguration as president, Cohen told jurors today. As part of the package, Trump raised Cohen's holiday bonus after Cohen complained bitterly that he'd…