US wants ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli to forfeit $2M Wu-Tang album

NEW YORK (AP) — The government wants to seize Martin Shkreli’s one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album. The recording that Shkreli has boasted he bought for $2 million is on a list of assets that prosecutors argue the jailed former pharmaceutical CEO should forfeit after his conviction earlier this year in a securities fraud scheme involving two... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Drugs, Pharma Bro, Shkreli

December 4, 2017

Timeline: The saga of Meek Mill and how he ended up in jail

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Meek Mill’s imprisonment on a probation violation has set off a flurry of legal appeals, criticism of the criminal justice system, newspaper opinion pieces, rallies, billboards and bus ads. A look at how the 30-year-old Philadelphia rapper, whose “Dreams Worth More Than Money” won a Billboard award for top rap album last... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Entertainment, Meek Mill, Music

December 4, 2017

Should opioids be banned in court over fears of exposure?

BOSTON (AP) — The potency of certain opioid painkillers has Massachusetts’ judiciary considering whether to ban the substances from being brought into courtrooms as evidence — a move some experts say is driven by a misunderstanding of the real dangers. The chief justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court recently told prosecutors that she fears allowing... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Drugs, Opiods

December 4, 2017

Lawyers walk fine line to navigate state, federal pot laws

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just as entrepreneurs getting into the retail pot industry need a good lawyer, some of those lawyers might be wise to consult an attorney of their own. Lawyers in the burgeoning business are entering a legal gray zone where the drug is permitted for some purpose in most states but illegal... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Drugs, Marijuana, Pot

December 4, 2017

Fight over Trump travel restrictions back to appeals courts

SEATTLE (AP) — For most of the time Syrian refugee Mohammad Al Zayed has been in the United States, judges have been wrestling with the Trump administration’s efforts to impose travel restrictions that he says would keep him from seeing relatives who remain overseas. It’s taken an emotional toll — one that continues this week... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, National Security, News

Immigration, National Security, Travel Ban, Trump

December 4, 2017

Into 4th week of FIFA trial, prosecutors near end of case

As the trial detailing widespread corruption in world soccer enters a fourth week, prosecutors are close to concluding their case in a Brooklyn federal courthouse. One sleepy juror was dismissed last week, one defendant was admonished by the judge, and the FIFA president thanked American authorities. “They do whatever they can to help us fight... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

FIFA, Soccer, Sports

December 4, 2017

Sentencing starts for officer who shot, killed unarmed man

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer is returning to court to learn how long he’ll spend in federal prison for the shooting death of an unarmed black motorist following a traffic stop. Sentencing starts Monday for Michael Slager. The former North Charleston police officer has been in jail since pleading guilty... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Law Enforcement, News

December 4, 2017

Ex-US Rep Brown to be sentenced for fraud

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge is expected to sentence former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown on Monday for fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund. The 71-year-old Brown is due in court at 10 a.m. in Jacksonville, a city in the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Fraud, Politics

December 3, 2017

FBI agent removed from Mueller probe for anti-Trump messages

WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran FBI counterintelligence agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russian election meddling after the discovery of an exchange of text messages seen as potentially anti-President Donald Trump, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday. The removal of the agent, who also had worked on the investigation... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

FBI, Mueller, Politics

December 3, 2017

Former Stanford swimmer files appeal in sex assault case

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a campus fraternity party is appealing. Lawyers for Brock Turner filed an appeal Friday. They argued the Ohio native’s initial trial was “a detailed and lengthy set of lies.” The attorneys say they hope a new trial will help... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse, Sports

Sexual Abuse, Sports, Swimmer

December 3, 2017

Suit: Hidden camera filmed Forever 21 employee in bathroom

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former Forever 21 employee at a Providence, Rhode Island, store is suing the retailer after she says someone installed a hidden camera in the employee restroom and secretly filmed her. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York says video that shows the plaintiff partially undressed was disseminated to “thousands... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Camera, Spying

December 3, 2017

How the Kate Steinle case became an immigration flashpoint

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury’s decision to acquit a Mexican man in the 2015 slaying of Kate Steinle on a San Francisco pier has reignited the furor of critics who in the two years since have pointed to Steinle’s death as evidence of the need for tougher immigration policies. President Donald Trump on Friday... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, San Francisco, Shooting

December 2, 2017

High court betting case pits states against sports leagues

OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) — With its spacious bar and banks of TVs tuned to all-sports stations, the lounge at New Jersey’s Monmouth Park Racetrack is a sports gamblers’ paradise-in-waiting. All that’s standing in its way: a 25-year-old federal law that bars betting on sports in most states. An hour before Thursday night’s Washington-Dallas NFL game,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

Sports

December 2, 2017

Yale alumni contribute to star athlete’s sex-expulsion case

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Yale University alumni are helping pay the legal costs of a former basketball star who is fighting his expulsion for sexual misconduct. Jack Montague told attorneys in a court deposition that $25,000 to $30,000 had been raised from alumni to help him pay costs associated with his lawsuit that asserts he... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

Basketball, Sports, University

US wants ‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli to forfeit $2M Wu-Tang album

Timeline: The saga of Meek Mill and how he ended up in jail

Should opioids be banned in court over fears of exposure?

Lawyers walk fine line to navigate state, federal pot laws

Fight over Trump travel restrictions back to appeals courts

Into 4th week of FIFA trial, prosecutors near end of case

Sentencing starts for officer who shot, killed unarmed man

Ex-US Rep Brown to be sentenced for fraud

FBI agent removed from Mueller probe for anti-Trump messages

Former Stanford swimmer files appeal in sex assault case

Suit: Hidden camera filmed Forever 21 employee in bathroom

How the Kate Steinle case became an immigration flashpoint

High court betting case pits states against sports leagues

Yale alumni contribute to star athlete’s sex-expulsion case

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