There's a series of high-profile criminal cases with hearings this week that could prove pivotal. Four of the cases have celebrity defendants or victims. The hearings and trials this week include a prosecution for the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur and the murder case against singer D4vd. Also expected in court are attorneys for social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, and the man accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie. Some of the hearings could determine final resolution of the charges.

Prosecutors detailed the last night of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, showing her phone went silent after arriving at singer D4vd's home. This was during a Los Angeles hearing on Friday to decide if D4vd, whose real name is David Burke, will face trial in her killing. Prosecutors allege he stabbed her to death after she arrived at his house. The defense highlighted texts from Rivas Hernandez threatening him. Her body was found months later in a car registered to him. D4vd has pleaded not guilty. The judge will decide if he goes to trial on charges of murder and other offenses.

A psychologist has testified that a teenager who killed two students and two teachers in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia had a chaotic, lonely upbringing. Sixteen-year-old Colt Gray pleaded guilty Friday to 55 counts, including murder, for the September 2024 shooting. The psychologist said Monday that Gray immersed himself in an online community fascinated by mass shootings. He was particularly interested in the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Murder carries a minimum penalty of life in prison, but the judge will decide if Gray will have the possibility of parole.

As officials review widely circulated bystander videos of the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in Madison, Wisconsin, one key perspective won’t be emerging: footage from the officers’ body-worn cameras. That is because unlike nearly every other similarly sized city, Madison doesn’t require police to wear them. The absence of that footage has left residents in the dark about key moments leading up to the shooting, when police say Corey Ruiz pulled a knife during a struggle with four officers, injuring one of them. That officer then fired the shots, according to police. All four officers have been placed on administrative leave pending a state investigation.