SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape, 44, whom jurors found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official […]
The man convicted of attempting to kidnap then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacking her husband with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the US. Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the sentence for David DePape (44), whom jurors found guilty last November of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and […]
A teacher has been found guilty of having sex with two schoolboys. Rebecca Joynes (30) groomed the youngsters from the age of 15, Manchester Crown Court heard, and was on bail for sexual activity with the first child, Boy A, when she began having sex with the second, Boy B, who she went on to […]
FILE – Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera attends the swearing-in ceremony for Kenya’s new president William Ruto, at Kasarani stadium in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. A man in Malawi was convicted of insulting President Lazarus Chakwera after posting a TikTok video that shows an animated figure with Chakwera’s face superimposed on it doing some […]
Two Los Angeles mothers are at odds on opposite sides of California’s embattled criminal justice system: one grieving the loss of her two sons and the other trying to get her conviction for killing them overturned. Rebecca Grossman, a rich and powerful Los Angeles socialite, sped her Mercedes through a crosswalk and killed Mark Iskander, […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a full pardon Thursday for a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. Abbott announced the pardon just a few minutes after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles announced that it […]
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – An Uber driver convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting a man taking part in a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020 was granted a full pardon on Thursday by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The clemency proclamation for Daniel Perry, a U.S. Army sergeant, […]
A Lithonia man has been convicted by a jury for shooting and killing a man at a Stone Mountain gas station last year. On Wednesday, jurors found Nathan Weeks, 27, guilty of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony in the murder of Isaac Godbolt, […]
FILE – Daniel Perry enters the courtroom at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, May 10, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday, May 16, 2024, recommended a full pardon for Perry, a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide […]
As Donald Trump‘s historic criminal trial nears an end, everyone is wondering if jurors will convict him of the felony charges. But Trump’s lawyers could try a long-shot move to give them another option: convict him of misdemeanors instead. Here’s how it would work and why the defense would — or wouldn’t — try it. […]
FILE – Josef Fritzl, center, is escorted to the fourth day of his trial in the provincial courthouse in St. Poelten, Austria, Thursday, March 19, 2009. An Austrian court has ruled that the man who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times, fathering seven children with her, can be […]
Former President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen detailed how he was reimbursed for the alleged hush money payment to Stormy Daniels — he’s also the prosecution’s last witness. This is Yahoo News’ succinct update on the criminal and civil cases against Trump. Here are the latest developments. 🚨 What happened today Michael Cohen, Trump’s […]