ATLANTA (AP) — The charges against former President Donald Trump in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that the First Amendment protects, his lawyers argued in a court filing challenging the indictment. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee plans to hear arguments on that filing and on […]
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office offered pre-trial diversion to the defendants charged for their involvement in a pro-Palestine protest on the Bay Bridge to avoid criminal prosecution. Prosecutors said that 78 of the defendants accepted the court’s offer, which included completing five hours of community service within two months. Additionally, the […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The amount of time people spend in jail before trial could be in the hands of voters this November. Some lawmakers are pushing for a new initiative on this year’s ballot that would restrict pretrial release. Just a few years after Senate Bill 48 was passed in the 2021 legislative session, […]
HILLSDALE — Kirk Thomas Culik, 69, charged with open murder and felony firearm in connection with the May 22, 2022, shooting death of Robery Jeffrey Flint, 16, will appear in the 1st Judicial Circuit Court for a criminal pretrial conference at 1 p.m. March 11. Hearings in the matters have been delayed almost a year […]
BALTIMORE — Maryland courts have run out of money to pay for indigent people charged with crimes to be released on home detention pending trial, putting hundreds of such defendants at risk of reincarceration, according to documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun. In 2021, the state sent $5 million to its Administrative Office of the […]
Feb. 6—A Flathead Valley man at the center of a high speed chase and subsequent standoff with the regional SWAT team last spring signed a pretrial diversion agreement in October. Prosecutors brought Hayes Goggles III, 37, up on a felony criminal endangerment charge following his April 28 arrest. He initially pleaded not guilty in Flathead […]
A Zimbabwe opposition figure who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention is set be freed after a magistrate sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for inciting violence. Job Sikhala, an outspoken official with the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party and a former member of parliament, was given the suspended […]
A court in Moscow extended the pretrial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges last year, until March 30. The American journalist, the Wall Street Journal and the U.S. deny all the espionage charges. Friday’s ruling marks the fourth time Gershkovich’s pretrial detention has been extended since he […]
A court in Moscow extended the pre-trial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges last year, until March 30. The American journalist, the Wall Street Journal and the U.S. deny all the espionage charges. Friday’s ruling marks the fourth time Gershkovich’s pre-trial detention has been extended since he […]
This story has been corrected to reflect that individual members of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe called for a boycott of the Plimoth Patuxet Museums. The tribe did not formally call for a boycott. PLYMOUTH – Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Chairman Brian M. Weeden received a one-year pretrial probation to resolve charges related to the reported theft […]
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry on Friday dropped his libel lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid following a ruling in which a judge cast doubt on his case. Lawyers for the Duke of Sussex told the High Court in London that he was withdrawing the suit against Associated Newspapers Ltd. No reason […]
Dec. 19—State prosecutors in San Miguel County are requesting a Ribera man accused in a fatal shooting in Villanueva be held in jail until his trial. A pre-trial detention hearing is scheduled Thursday in the 2nd Judicial District Court for Gary Hicks, 59, who is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 12 slaying of […]