The evidentiary hearing scheduled for today was continued to June 3.

Edward Nero is the first of the officers charged with Freddie Gray's death to go to trial since the mistrial of Officer William Porter and the subsequent appeals. Porter is expected to be a witness for the State against Nero and the remaining four officers to be tried between now and October. Nero's trial is scheduled to begin today.

The competency hearing in the murder case against Robert Dear continues today in a Colorado courtroom. On May 11, 2016, the judge found Dear incompetent to stand trial---at least for now.

Teresa Sievers's mother has custody of Teresa and Mark's two daughters. Bonnie Siever, mother Mark, is challenging the custody. Her motion will be heard today. Teresa Sievers was murdered in June 2015. Her husband, Mark, is charged with murder.

John Charlton, 37, is charged with murder for killing and dismembering Ingrid Lyne, 40, in April 2016. Charlton and Lyne had recently started dating. Lyne was a nurse and mother of three. He has a court appearance today in a Seattle, WA courtroom.

Drew Peterson, serving a 38-year sentence for the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, now faces murder-for-hire charges for allegedly soliciting an inmate to murder prosecutor James Glasgow who handled the 2012 murder trial. The murder-for-hire trial is scheduled to begin today in Illinois.

Sandusky has been granted this Post Conviction Relief Hearing to prove allegations he raised earlier this month: that the Attorney General and the judge overseeing the grand jury investigation withheld Brady (exculpatory) material from the defense and that the Attorney General improperly leaked grand jury information in order to locate additional victims. On May 18, Judge Cleland cancelled the hearing with no explanation. It will be rescheduled.

Dippolito is charged with hiring a hit man in 2009 to arrange her husband's death. But the hit man was an undercover cop. She was charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder. Dippolito was convicted after trial in 2011 and sentenced to 20 years. Her conviction was overturned in 2014. She now faces a retrial. In late April, the retrial originally scheduled to begin today, was postponed because Dippolito is appealing the judge's decision not to dismiss the charges.

Officer Edward Nero chose to waive a jury and let Judge Barry Williams decide his fate. Nero is charged with assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office related to event surrounding the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in April 2015. Evidence finished last Wednesday; closing arguments were last Thursday. Judge Williams said he would announce his verdict today.

Pedro Hernandez is charged with the 1979 murder of 6-year-old Etan Patz. He was not arrested until 2012. A jury deadlocked 11-1 for conviction at his first trial in 2015. He is facing a retrial in September. Today is a control date.

Bill Cosby's preliminary hearing in Norristown, PA is scheduled for today. It had been scheduled for March but was stayed while Cosby appealed the judge's decision not to dismiss the aggravated indecent sexual assault charge. It is alleged that he assaulted Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee, at his home in Montgomery County, PA in 2004. Newly-elected District Attorney Kevin Steele filed the charges last December. Bruce Castor, the DA at the time the allegations were reported in 2005, chose not to file charges.

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