Tag: case
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Did Hollywood help the Menendez brothers’ case?
Twenty-eight years after Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison for killing their parents, the brothers may be getting a second chance at freedom. The news of their potential resentencing comes after the recent release of two Hollywood projects — including a Ryan Murphy-led true crime series on Netflix — prompted widespread…
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Texas attorney general and state lawmakers spar over death row inmate in ‘shaken baby’ case
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers who used their legislative powers and the courts to stop an execution last week with only hours to spare have drawn public rebuke from state Attorney General Ken Paxton, stirring claims against his office on Thursday of “misrepresentation” in the death row inmate’s case. Robert Roberson, 57, was set to…
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OnlyFans user sentenced to five years in child abuse case
A man accused of selling sex videos of a 16-year-old Florida girl on the adults-only website OnlyFans pleaded no contest to child abuse. Ethan Diaz, 22, of New Jersey reached the plea agreement in a Florida court in September and was sentenced to five years in prison followed by five years of supervised probation, according…
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Arizona official pleads guilty in 2022 election certification case
A Republican county supervisor in Arizona pleaded guilty Monday after she tried to delay certification of the 2022 midterm election results, state Attorney General Kris Mayes announced. Peggy Judd, a Cochise County supervisor, pleaded guilty to failing to perform duties as an election officer, a misdemeanor. She acknowledged that she failed to canvass the election…
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Trump calls judge overseeing his Jan. 6 case ‘the most evil person’
WASHINGTON — Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday called the judge overseeing the Jan. 6-related federal criminal case against him “the most evil person,” despite threats U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already faced from his supporters. Trump also called special counsel Jack Smith, who has faced threats from Trump supporters as well, “a…
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What to know ahead of the Richard Allen case
Seven years ago, the bodies of two teenage girls were discovered near a hiking trail outside the small Indiana town of Delphi. The case remained unsolved for years, and authorities have offered few details publicly about why Richard Allen, a onetime pharmacy employee charged in the murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams, is believed…
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N.C. judge in Michael Jordan’s father’s murder case argues for convicted killer’s release
The North Carolina judge who presided over the 1996 murder trial of Michael Jordan’s father petitioned the state’s parole commission to release the convicted killer. Retired judge Gregory Weeks on Tuesday called for the release of Daniel Green, who was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of James Jordan, a North Carolina…
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Texas set to execute Robert Roberson in ‘shaken baby syndrome’ case
Texas is preparing to put a man to death Thursday in what would be the nation’s first execution involving a case of “shaken baby syndrome,” a diagnosis that has been re-evaluated in more recent years, leading to the overturning of similar convictions. Robert Roberson, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m.…
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Fulton County DA Fani Willis asks appeals court to reinstate six charges in Trump election case
Fulton County prosecutors asked a Georgia appeals court this week to restore six charges that were tossed in former President Donald Trump’s indictment over attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. In a court filing, prosecutors from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ office requested that the state’s Court of Appeals reinstate…
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Judge in Trump’s Jan. 6 case rejects ‘strained’ argument about his false 2020 election claims
WASHINGTON — A federal judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump rejected the former president’s claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about domestic voter fraud he continuously repeated in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack. There…