Scott Smith ’79 has found himself on the opposing side of his younger brother Phillip Smith in a sex abuse case involving Poly Prep Country Day School, a private school in Brooklyn, N.Y.

After four days of arguments and exhaustive witness accounts about the events leading to the death of George Desdunes ’13, Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 closed the criminal trial of three former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pledges for deliberation on Thursday.

As the third day of the criminal trial of three former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pledges unfolded on Wednesday, the question of whether the pledges' mock-kidnapping or Desdunes' own drinking led to the SAE brother's death continued to hang heavy in the air.

After more than two weeks of testimony, the jury will soon decide whether Blazej Kot killed his wife in a frenzy of extreme emotional distress or, as the prosecution argues, he acted in cold blood. Each side gave its closing argument Monday, and a verdict is anticipated sometime this week.

Kot's lawyer, Joe Joch '66, cross-examined Dr. Gary Horwitz, the prosecution's psychiatrist, about Horwitz's assertion that Kot was not mentally ill at the time of the crime — an argument which has formed the crux of the defense's case.

The trial of accused murderer Blazej Kot continued Tuesday as the defense revealed the former Cornell graduate student's psychiatric test results. 

The trial of Blazej Kot, a former Cornell Ph.D. student in information sciences charged with murdering his wife, continued Wednesday — the fifth day of testimony — with a Cornell professor and graduate student taking the stand.

The trial of former Cornell graduate student Blazej Kot, who is accused of murdering his wife last summer, is slated to begin Thursday in Tompkins County Court.

While the federal judge previously twice dismissed Margaret Leibowitz’s ’73 charges against Cornell without a trial, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided to give Leibowitz the opportunity to make her case in her six-year legal battle against the School of Industrial Labor School on Oct. 23.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The man who told a jury that O.J. Simpson asked him to bring guns and "look menacing" during a hotel room confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers acknowledged Monday he didn't tell police that last October.

"You have a whole conversation with police and you never say 'O.J. said to bring guns?'" Simpson defense lawyer Gabriel Grasso asked the witness, Michael McClinton, during a lengthy cross-examination.

"It may have slipped my mind," McClinton responded. "But Mr. Simpson knew I had a gun. He read my concealed weapons permit."