A movie weapons armourer is appealing against her conviction for involuntary manslaughter over the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust, according to court documents. A defence lawyer filed the shortly worded appeal notice as Hannah Gutierrez-Reed serves an 18-month sentence at a New Mexico penitentiary […]
Nearly two years after Steve Bannon was found guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress, the right-wing operative/podcaster hoped an appeals court would undo what a jury already did. As my MSNBC colleague Clarissa-Jan Lim explained, that was wishful thinking. It was not a close call: The three-judge panel, which included a Trump appointee, […]
FILE – Bailey Boswell walks into the courtroom for the sentencing hearing of the 2017 murder of Sydney Loofe, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021, in Wilber, Neb. The Nebraska Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction and life sentence of Boswell, Friday, May 10, 2024, in the 2017 death and dismemberment of a Nebraska hardware store […]
WASHINGTON — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld Steve Bannon’s conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress. Bannon was convicted after a trial in 2022 and sentenced to four months in prison. The trial judge, however, stayed Bannon’s sentence, allowing him to remain […]
A federal appeals court has upheld Steve Bannon‘s conviction for defying a Jan. 6 House committee subpoena. In a 20-page ruling Friday, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed each of Bannon’s four challenges to his conviction as without merit. Judge Bradley Garcia wrote in the ruling: Bannon, a Trump White […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Friday upheld the criminal conviction of Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected Bannon’s challenges to his contempt […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld the conviction of Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to Donald Trump, for defying a subpoena from the congressional panel that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Bannon was convicted in 2022 of two counts of contempt of Congress for […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The defense attorney for Matthew Chavez, who was acquitted of second-degree murder after originally being convicted in 2018, is reacting to the jury’s verdict in the trial. In 2016, Tyler Lackey was at an ATM when Matthew Chavez tried to rob him. According to witness testimony, Lackey took out his gun and […]
Juan Lerma’s conviction in the death of his 8-year-old daughter was upheld by the New Mexico Supreme Court, maintaining his life sentence in prison for child abuse. Lerma was convicted Nov. 18, 2022 after a jury trial in Fifth Judicial District Court on a single count of intentional child abuse resulting in death of a […]
May 7—HIGH POINT — A High Point man convicted of murder two years ago was not entitled to a new trial just because a juror heard a news report about a shooting involving a man who was tangentially involved in the murder case, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. Kalere R. Anderson, 18, was […]
May 7—The child molestation conviction of a Kokomo man has been upheld by the state’s appellate court. The Indiana Court of Appeals, in an unanimous decision issued April 29, upheld the conviction of Robert Nathaniel Farmer of Kokomo. Farmer was found guilty of child molestation by a jury last year and sentenced to 50 years […]
An antiques store owner who became known as “The Black Widow of Las Vegas” when she was convicted of the murder of her millionaire husband has filed a wrongful conviction lawsuit against the state of Nevada after being freed by a federal judge. Margaret Rudin, now 80, was accused of shooting real estate developer Ron […]