BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Cheektowaga man has received an indeterminate sentence in relation to multiple suspected high-end vehicle thefts, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office. Between December 2022 and September 2023, Richard E. Lucas III, 21, stole 14 vehicles from dealerships in Amherst, Tonawanda, Orchard Park, Grand Island, and Clarence. The vehicles […]
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on Tuesday argued the Justice Department is trying to silence “the voice of MAGA” after federal prosecutors called on a judge to lift the stay on his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House panel tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Prosecutors cited the ruling of […]
After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he has fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film. “I arrived in Europe a few days ago after a long and complicated journey,” Rasoulof said in a statement dated Sunday and distributed […]
MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court on Monday convicted a former government official of torturing and murdering his wife and sentenced him to 24 years in prison in a case that has gripped the Central Asian nation. During the trial of Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan’s former economy minister, over the death of his wife, Saltanat Nukenova, […]
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to impose a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer. The San Francisco Chronicle reported late on Friday that prosecutors made the request ahead of a […]
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice is seeking 40 years in prison for the man convicted of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacking her husband. Federal prosecutors said that David DePape’s crimes “are an assault on our democracy and fundamental values,” arguing that while he was not convicted of terrorism, his […]
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 […]
Former President Donald Trump faces two potential paths to incarceration regarding his Manhattan trial over hush money payments made to a porn star. Trump could be convicted of at least some of the criminal charges against him or he could be jailed for being in contempt of court. How would it work if Trump gets […]
May 9—A woman is asking Maine’s highest court to consider whether she was legally sentenced to six years in prison for the death of her newborn 38 years ago. Lee Ann Daigle, 60, pleaded guilty last year to manslaughter in the 1985 death of her infant daughter, who she abandoned in a cold gravel pit […]
Woman returns to Las Vegas-area prison to finish serving sentence previously vacated LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A defendant whose sentence was previously vacated returned to prison Wednesday to finish serving her original sentence. Mia Christman, 30, surrendered to the Nevada Department of Corrections the day after she was ordered to, the 8 News Now Investigators […]
The man who killed three people in a spate of attacks in Nottingham last year should have his sentence changed to one of life imprisonment, the UK Court of Appeal has heard. Valdo Calocane was given an indefinite hospital order after admitting the manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility of Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and […]
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — A Columbus man appeared in Superior Court Tuesday afternoon for a sentencing hearing, pleading guilty to a shooting that left a teenager dead in November 2020. LilMarcus Terell Ransom, 24, has been in jail for over 3 years in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Allen Toombs. According to court testimony, Toombs […]