A man accused of a stabbing a man to death then inflicting knife wounds to himself, claimed the dead man had been calling up Maori gods and going on about "witch stuff', a jury in the High Court at Rotorua was told today.
A Christchurch prostitute who arranged to do an indecent photo shoot with her 15-year-old daughter has been jailed for 20 months and told her behaviour was "almost inexplicable conduct by a mother".
Ronald Terrence Brown, the 65-year-old Auckland man at the centre of an international drug ring which brought millions of dollars worth of drugs into New Zealand, was sentenced to 11 years' prison yesterday, not 11-1/2 years as reported by NZPA.
A Nelson man has been jailed for at least 12 years after he shot dead another during a prearranged fight between two mobs in one of the city's parks.
An Auckland man at the centre of an international drug ring which brought millions of dollars worth of drugs into New Zealand has been sentenced to 11-1/2 years' imprisonment.
High Court judge Justice John Richard Wild is stepping up to the Court of Appeal effective tomorrow, Attorney-general Christopher Finlayson announced today.
The state of Ohio is switching its lethal injection drug from a scarce anaesthetic to one commonly used in surgery as a shortage of the drug normally used for executions has worsened, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction has announced.
Judge Jane Farish had the fatal crash statistics for people fleeing the police at her fingertips when she jailed Kere Waihape for a reckless high speed dash he made on Sunday afternoon.
A 31-year-old man charged with the murder of his flatmate in downtown Auckland in October has been committed for trial.
Lesley and Gil Elliott respond to columnist Chris Trotter's article on the Justice Reform Bill.
It will be harder to get name suppression in court under proposal announced announced by the Government today.
New proposals to make it harder for the evidence and the names of accused and convicted people to be suppressed in court and easier to suppress the names of children and victims, signal the rebalancing of the intention of the law, an Otago law professor says.
A provincial hockey representative who bashed a sex worker with a hockey stick and then struck another woman with a car as he was driving away has been jailed for 3-1/4 years.
The parents of murdered Owaka school girl Kylie Smith say they support a proposed review of Parole Board hearings outlined yesterday by Justice Minister Simon Power.
The future career and reputation of Supreme Court Judge Bill Wilson is at stake at a hearing which began in the High Court at Wellington today.
By most measures our system of trial and punishment must be regarded as substantially failing its chief purpose, encapsulated in the terms "justice" and "correction".
Four potential jurors who did not turn up for a full week's jury service have been reprimanded in the Dunedin District Court.
More fines were being collected with an additional $20 million expected to be paid back in the coming year, MPs were told today.
A Labour government proposal for senior registrars to preside over Family Courts to take the pressure off judges has been dumped because it is too expensive, MPs were told today.
Horror at capital punishment in the United States led Nigel Benson to befriend a death row inmate. Meet Charles Don Flores.
