Crime and Courts

A lawyer for Sean “Diddy” Combs protested the rising tide of secrecy at the hip-hop icon’s federal sex trafficking and racketeering trial on Thursday after Combs and the public were excluded from lengthy arguments over whether another famous rapper’s name could be shared.

The judge in Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes retrial has declared a mistrial on one charge jurors were still deliberating on Thursday.

A jury convicted Harvey Weinstein of one of three charges at his sex crimes retrial in lower Manhattan, but deliberations are quite done yet. Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sex act against Miriam Haley, but the jury found him not guilty of a sex crime against former runway model Kaja Sokola. The jury was not unanimous on......

Two 16-year-old girls face a series of charges in connection with the beating of a 15-year-old girl in an Astoria subway station earlier this month, according to the Queens district attorney’s office. The two 16-year-old defendants, both of Elmhurst, were arraigned Tuesday on a criminal complaint in the attack on the girl at the 46th Street s...

An Italian man was kidnapped and tortured for weeks in a New York City townhouse, allegedly over a Bitcoin password.

The jury has reached a partial verdict Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein’s New York sex crimes retrial, finding him guilty on one of the three charges he faced — but has been ordered to continue deliberating on another charge.

There was silence from the jury on Tuesday, unusual given their past behavior, where they would submit notes consistently — a total of 14 notes in three days, which doesn’t include requests for breaks, lunch or even extra coffee. But the jurors were behind closed doors on Tuesday. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

The wife and daughter of alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann speak out for the first time in a new Peacock documentary.

The man accused of killing a New Jersey councilwoman right outside her home as her family was waiting inside was found guilty of murder and other charges, according to the county prosecutor’s office.

The foreperson of the jury deliberating in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial omplained Monday that some jurors were prodding others to change their minds, talking about the former studio boss’ past and going beyond the charges as they deliberate. “I feel like they are attacking, talking together, fight together. I don’t like it,” the fore...

A judge has denied Harvey Weinstein’s request for a mistrial after a juror complained of issues in the deliberations.

The woman, using the pseudonym “Jane,” is among several witnesses at the trial who accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of violence.

Jurors heard more than five weeks of testimony, including lengthy and sometimes fiery questioning of Weinstein’s three accusers in the case.