NYC jury begins deliberations at college hoops bribery trial

NEW YORK (AP) — A jury began deliberating on Monday at the trial of a business manager and another defendant accused of secretly bribing assistant college basketball coaches. The deliberations in federal court in Manhattan followed closing arguments by lawyers for Christian Dawkins and youth basketball coach Merl Code, who deny conspiring to pay off... Read More

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Christian Dawkins

May 7, 2019

Would-be bomber gets 16-year term; judge cites mental health

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday handed an Illinois man a 16-year prison sentence for trying to kill hundreds of people by detonating what he thought was a car bomb outside a crowded Chicago bar, saying she factored in Adel Daoud’s mental health in imposing a sentence much lower than prosecutors requested. The... Read More

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Adel Daoud

May 7, 2019

Witness dies before testifying in fatal warehouse fire trial

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A key witness scheduled to testify this week in the involuntary manslaughter trial involving a Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people has died in a car crash, prosecutors told a judge Monday. Alameda County prosecutors had planned to call Robert Jacobitz to testify this week in the trial of... Read More

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Ghost Ship

May 7, 2019

Trial opens in sex-trafficking case against self-help guru

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City jury is set to hear opening statements and testimony at the sex-trafficking case against a self-help guru. The trial beginning Tuesday is expected to feature testimony from women who claim that they were forced to have sex with Keith Raniere. He’s the former leader of an upstate... Read More

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Keith Raniere, NXIVM

May 7, 2019

Court to hear appeal to reinstate lawsuit in church massacre

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Survivors and family members of nine people killed in a racist attack at a South Carolina church are asking a federal appeals court to reinstate their lawsuit. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit filed against the federal government over a faulty... Read More

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Dylann Roof

May 7, 2019

Judge to weigh freeing Coast Guard officer called terrorist

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal magistrate judge may decide Tuesday whether to order the release of a Coast Guard lieutenant accused of stockpiling weapons and drafting a hit list of prominent Democrats and network TV journalists. Prosecutors have portrayed 50-year-old Christopher Hasson as a domestic terrorist and a racist extremist intent on carrying out... Read More

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Christopher Hasson

May 7, 2019

Ex-Chicago sergeant faces felony counts in gay club fight

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago police sergeant has been charged in an attack at a gay club last year that left two men seriously injured. Chicago police said Tuesday that 45-year-old Eric J. Elkins faces two felony aggravated battery counts in the Sept. 29 attack. Another man, 34-year-old Giovanni Rodriguez of Chicago, also faces... Read More

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Eric J. Elkins

May 7, 2019

Chelsea Manning says she’ll never testify, seeks release

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is offering a new legal argument in her effort to be released from a Virginia jail. Manning has been jailed in Alexandria for two months for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the website Wikileaks. She appealed her incarceration to the federal appeals... Read More

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Chelsea Manning

May 7, 2019

The Latest: R. Kelly back at hearing in sexual abuse case

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the sexual abuse case against R&B singer R. Kelly (all times local): 9:50 a.m. R&B singer R. Kelly is back in court for a hearing in his sexual abuse case. It is unclear what issues will be discussed at Tuesday’s hearing in Chicago, but one matter before the judge... Read More

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R. Kelly

May 6, 2019

Judge dismisses most of suit between Jerry Lee Lewis, family

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge in Mississippi has dismissed most of a lawsuit in which rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis alleged a daughter had stolen money from him. U.S. District Judge Neal Biggers ruled April 25 that most claims were barred by a three-year statute of limitations. He left alive only... Read More

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Jerry Lee Lewis

May 6, 2019

‘Fatal Attraction’ killer Carolyn Warmus granted parole

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A former New York schoolteacher who was convicted of killing her lover’s wife in a sensational case dubbed the Fatal Attraction murder has been granted parole. Carolyn Warmus will be released from Bedford Hills prison as early as June 10 after a three-member panel of the state Parole Board granted... Read More

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Carolyn Warmus

May 6, 2019

C u in court: Text messages now remind defendants to show up

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — C u in court. Courts around the country are embracing text messages as a way to nudge people into showing up for their hearings. On any given day, up to half of defendants fail to show up for their scheduled proceedings. No-shows cost the courts time and money, and can cost... Read More

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May 6, 2019

Judge says Alabama failed to protect prisoners from suicide

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — After 15 inmate suicides in 15 months, a federal judge ruled Saturday that Alabama is putting prisoners in danger by failing to provide adequate suicide-prevention measures. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote that there are “severe and systemic inadequacies” in the Alabama Department of Corrections’ care of inmates and the facts... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

May 6, 2019

Uncertain future for ‘super’ seaweed after court ruling

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s seaweed business has grown like a weed in recent years, with proponents touting it as both a “superfood” and an economic generator for the rural state — but the industry is now facing sticky new restrictions. Maine has a long tradition of seaweed harvesting, in which the algae is gathered... Read More

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NYC jury begins deliberations at college hoops bribery trial

Would-be bomber gets 16-year term; judge cites mental health

Witness dies before testifying in fatal warehouse fire trial

Trial opens in sex-trafficking case against self-help guru

Court to hear appeal to reinstate lawsuit in church massacre

Judge to weigh freeing Coast Guard officer called terrorist

Ex-Chicago sergeant faces felony counts in gay club fight

Chelsea Manning says she’ll never testify, seeks release

The Latest: R. Kelly back at hearing in sexual abuse case

Judge dismisses most of suit between Jerry Lee Lewis, family

‘Fatal Attraction’ killer Carolyn Warmus granted parole

C u in court: Text messages now remind defendants to show up

Judge says Alabama failed to protect prisoners from suicide

Uncertain future for ‘super’ seaweed after court ruling

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