Challenges for public following impeachment, Weinstein cases

NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who want to follow President Donald Trump’s impeachment saga and Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial through the media will sit in obstructed seats. Both events begin in earnest this week — with Senate arguments over Trump’s impeachment beginning Tuesday and opening statements in the Weinstein case Wednesday. Both have... Read More

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Harvey Weinstein, Impeachment

January 21, 2020

Murder trial begins in fatal Portland light-rail stabbings

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man charged with fatally stabbing two men who authorities say confronted him during a racist rant on a Portland, Oregon, light-rail train goes to trial Tuesday, two years after the killings in a liberal city. Jeremy Christian has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, assault and other... Read More

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Jeremy Christian

January 21, 2020

Planned Parenthood endorses challenger to Sen. Susan Collins

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Planned Parenthood on Tuesday endorsed a Democratic challenger to Republican Sen. Susan Collins in Maine, saying Collins “turned her back” on women and citing her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court as well as other judicial nominees who oppose abortion. Sara Gideon, speaker of the Maine House of... Read More

Abortion, Criminal Justice News, News

Abortion, Planned Parenthood

January 20, 2020

Illegal crossings plunge as US extends policy across border

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Adolfo Cardenas smiles faintly at the memory of traveling with his 14-year-old son from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border in only nine days, riding buses and paying a smuggler $6,000 to ensure passage through highway checkpoints. Father and son walked about 10 minutes in Arizona’s stifling June heat before surrendering to... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration

January 20, 2020

#MeToo prosecutors deploy experts early to thwart defense

When his trial opens in the coming days, Harvey Weinstein’s defense team is expected to go on the offensive against the women who have accused him of rape and sexual assault, in part by questioning if they acted like victims afterward. New York City prosecutors intend to counter with a strategy that’s taken hold since... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Harvey Weinstein

January 20, 2020

Prince wrongful death case dismissed; estate case continues

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Prince’s family members has been quietly dismissed in recent months, suggesting family members have reached settlements with defendants including the Minnesota doctor who saw Prince in the weeks before his death and the Illinois hospital that treated him for an opioid overdose seven days before he... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Prince

January 17, 2020

Man sentenced in 2012 killing of 7-year-old Chicago girl

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man who was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2012 killing of a 7-year-old girl was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in prison. Jerrell Dorsey, 33, was sentenced by a Cook County judge, following his April conviction in the shooting of Heaven Sutton outside her home. He was one of... Read More

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Jerrell Dorsey

January 17, 2020

Florida high court sides with governor on felon voter rights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court sided with Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday in a legal dispute over restoring voting rights to felons with unpaid fines — one of many clashes over the ballot box in a state that will play a crucial role in this year’s presidential election. The court’s advisory opinion... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

January 17, 2020

Ex-Los Angeles sheriff to report to prison for corruption

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was ordered Thursday to report to prison by Feb. 5 to begin serving a three-year prison sentence for a corruption conviction. Baca, 77, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, has been free on bail while appealing his obstruction of justice conviction three years... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

Lee Baca

January 17, 2020

Man in GoFundMe scheme pleads not guilty to federal charges

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who authorities said was the ringleader in a scheme that raised more than $400,000 with a bogus tale involving a homeless veteran rescuing a woman from the side of a highway pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges. Mark D’Amico appeared in court in Camden to face... Read More

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Mark D'Amico

January 17, 2020

12-year sentence for jail phone is ‘failure,’ justice says

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court’s confirmation of a 12-year prison sentence for an African American man who carried his mobile phone into a county jail cell is being slammed as a brutal example of racial injustice. Even one of the justices who joined in the unanimous ruling said that while the sentence... Read More

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Willie Nash

January 17, 2020

Ex-Texas nurse pleads guilty in 1981 death of 11-month-old

A former Texas nurse suspected in the killing of dozens of children pleaded guilty Thursday in the 1981 death of an 11-month-old boy, receiving a life sentence that a prosecutor said should ensure she dies in prison. Genene Jones, 69, was imprisoned in 1984 for killing one child and giving an overdose to another. She... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

Genene Jones

January 17, 2020

FBI arrests 3 alleged white supremacists ahead of gun rally

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who authorities say are linked to a violent white supremacist group were arrested Thursday, just days before they were believed to be headed to a pro-gun rally in Virginia’s capital. The three men, members of The Base, were taken into custody... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Patrik Jordan Mathews

January 17, 2020

Judge threatens to force PG&E to hire more tree trimmers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday threatened to force Pacific Gas & Electric to hire more tree trimmers to reduce the chances of its electrical grid igniting fires in Northern California and adhere to a requirement imposed after the utility’s natural gas lines blew up a neighborhood a decade ago. U.S. District... Read More

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Challenges for public following impeachment, Weinstein cases

Murder trial begins in fatal Portland light-rail stabbings

Planned Parenthood endorses challenger to Sen. Susan Collins

Illegal crossings plunge as US extends policy across border

#MeToo prosecutors deploy experts early to thwart defense

Prince wrongful death case dismissed; estate case continues

Man sentenced in 2012 killing of 7-year-old Chicago girl

Florida high court sides with governor on felon voter rights

Ex-Los Angeles sheriff to report to prison for corruption

Man in GoFundMe scheme pleads not guilty to federal charges

12-year sentence for jail phone is ‘failure,’ justice says

Ex-Texas nurse pleads guilty in 1981 death of 11-month-old

FBI arrests 3 alleged white supremacists ahead of gun rally

Judge threatens to force PG&E to hire more tree trimmers

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