A prosecutor has said that “no one is above the law” as he urged jurors to convict US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter on charges that he lied about his drug use when he bought a gun in 2018. The evidence is “overwhelming” that Hunter Biden knew he was in the throes of a crack […]
WASHINGTON − Before Donald Trump was the first former president and presumptive major party nominee to be convicted of a crime, he argued that a candidate who faced possible indictment shouldn’t be allowed to run for president. The year was 2016 and Trump, then the Republican nominee, was trying to capitalize on a Justice Department […]
One of the first polls issued following the 34-count conviction of Donald Trump finds a majority of voters agreeing with the jury’s decision — and more than two-thirds said a fine would suffice as punishment. The Morning Consult survey released on Saturday says 54% “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of the guilty verdict, with 53% of […]
Jurors took just under three hours to convict a Jacksonville man of killing a young boyfriend and girlfriend outside a shopping center ATM nearly two years ago. Raishion Gist, 22, was found guilty Thursday on two counts each of first-degree murder and armed burglary, court records show. Sentencing is to be set on June 6, […]
NEW YORK (AP) — He’s visiting Manhattan construction sites, decrying local crime and holding court in his gilded Fifth Avenue penthouse. After a years-long breakup with his hometown, Donald Trump is back in New York, this time as a criminal defendant. Stuck here most weekdays for the duration of his criminal hush money trial, the […]
A jury is out to deliberate if a Lexington man accused of murder is guilty of suffocating Lexington woman Ava Creech and hiding her body in a closet. All parties agree the evidence against 54-year-old William Parker “Bill” Brown is circumstantial — indirect evidence — but is it enough to convict him? Assistant Commonwealth Attorney […]
The Dekalb County District Attorney’s office says they do not believe they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt who killed Brandon Veal. On Aug. 6, 2022, Brandon Veal went to a friend’s house with his girlfriend and her three-year-old son. According to the initial police report, Veal would say high to his friends but would return to his car with his […]
After Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg finishes his trial with Donald Trump, he’ll have to turn to Harvey Weinstein. The disgraced former Hollywood mogul saw his 2020 conviction on sex crimes charges overturned Thursday by New York’s top court in a 4-3 decision that shocked the public. But Catherine A. Christian, a former prosecutor who […]
In the official record, the case is known as the People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, and, for now, the people have the stronger hand: They have insider witnesses, a favorable jury pool and a lurid set of facts about a presidential candidate, a payoff and a porn actor. On […]
“Don’t let my husband near me. He pushed me.” These were among the last words spoken by Fawziyah Javed, a 31-year-old British attorney, as she lay critically injured on a rocky Scottish hillside, 50 feet below the clifftop where she’d been hiking with her husband. She was 17 weeks pregnant and had just told him […]
NEW CITY – A Rockland jury has convicted a 26-year-old Spring Valley man of raping and beating a woman he knew over two days in September 2022. The jurors convicted Rigoberto Lopez-Castro of three violent felonies following a two-week jury trial before County Court Judge Kevin Russo, the Rockland District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday in […]
ATMORE, Ala. (WHNT) — Less than 3 hours before Kenneth Eugene Smith’s time of death was called, Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials shared information about how he spent the 24 hours leading up to his execution. ADOC accounts show Smith had 9 visitors on Wednesday and Thursday, which included attorneys, his spiritual advisor, his […]