PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three child…

Jurors have walked through the Massachusetts home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children. Friday's rare visit let the jury see firsthand the place where an outwardly ordinary family life unraveled into tragedy. First, the jury was driven past some businesses relevant to the narrative of the January 2023 killings. Then jurors were escorted in groups of six to view the inside of the house and also saw the yard. Clancy's lawyers don’t dispute that she strangled the children with exercise bands. But the defense says she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — First responders will offer jurors a firsthand account Thursday of what they found after Lindsay Clancy killed her thre…

A man has been convicted of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie. A jury delivered its verdict Wednesday in Buffalo, New York. Jurors found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. The 28-year-old had pleaded not guilty. Matar already is serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack. Rushdie has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel “The Satanic Verses.”

The Fifth Amendment is part of the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights and protects against self-incrimination. This principle is rooted in 17th-century English common law and ensures people aren't forced to testify against themselves in criminal cases. It's a well-known concept in the U.S., referenced in TV legal dramas and real-life cases. The amendment is crucial for maintaining the presumption of innocence, requiring prosecutors to prove guilt. Originally for federal cases, it now applies to state and civil cases, too. In criminal trials, jurors can't assume silence means guilt, but civil cases may allow negative inferences. Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth on Wednesday at a Republican-led Senate committee hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic.

The former husband of a Massachusetts woman will return to the stand in her murder trial to testify about the day she killed their three children. Patrick Clancy previously testified Monday about her deteriorating mental health in the months before the murder. He is expected to testify Wednesday about the day in January 2023 when she killed the children, ages 5 and younger. Jurors are expected to hear evidence for weeks including dueling views about her culpability and mental state. Clancy has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney has laid out an insanity defense. Prosecutors argue that she strangled the children in well-planned murders.

A prominent Supreme Court litigator has been sentenced to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud in a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player. A federal judge in Maryland also ordered SCOTUSblog publisher Thomas Goldstein to pay more than $3 million in restitution as part of his sentencing on Friday. A jury found Goldstein guilty of 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial. Goldstein argued over 40 cases before the Supreme Court before retiring in 2023 at age 52.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lawyers for Pamela Smart, who’s serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student…

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while undergoing medical treatment for ps…