SAN FRANCISCO -- Just after noon Pacific Time on Wednesday, Judge Susan Illston briefly reconvened Courtroom 10 on the 19th floor of the U.S. District Court to answer a telling question from the jury: ...

The judge in Zacarias Moussaoui's death penalty trial admonished jurors Friday to avoid looking up words in the dictionary after learning that one went on the Internet to see what "aggravating" means.

A Manhattan judge is spelling out her rationale for tossing a verdict in a $30 million NYPD sexual-harassment case – it’s because a juror looked up a legal term in a dictionary. In a decision made ...

The jury weighing Zacarias Moussaoui’s role in the deaths on Sept. 11, 2001, asked for a definition of “weapons of mass destruction” yesterday as it worked to decide whether the al-Qaida conspirator ...

Update at 1:05 p.m.: The jury’s question will now be heard at 1:30 p.m. Earlier text follows: The jury in the public corruption trial of ex-sheriff Mike Carona had a question this morning: “Please ...