Judge needs evidence to let illusionist undo porn plea

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal judge said Friday she needs to see evidence that a former Las Vegas Strip illusionist didn’t understand what his sentence could be before she can let him withdraw his guilty plea in a pornography case involving thousands of videos and images, including some depicting kindergarten-age boys in sex acts.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Jan Rouven Fuechtener

December 30, 2017

Court tosses conviction of man in 2011 policeman killing

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey appeals court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of killing an off-duty Newark police officer in 2011. Prosecutors in the trial of Rasul McNeil-Thomas shouldn’t have been allowed to show jurors video clips during closing arguments that weren’t put into evidence earlier, according to the... Read More

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Rasul McNeil-Thomas

December 30, 2017

Court: Families of serial killer’s victims can sue detective

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court has declined to hear Cleveland’s appeal of a lower court ruling allowing families of a serial killer’s victims to sue a police detective. Several family members say the detective, Georgia Hussein, failed to thoroughly investigate a complaint from a woman who said Anthony Sowell (SOH’-wehl) attacked and... Read More

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Anthony Sowell

December 30, 2017

In Philadelphia, claims of lies from within police force

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officers in the Philadelphia Police Department’s narcotics unit have sued their bosses for allegedly ordering them to lie on arrest paperwork about their informants to “make the drugs go away,” a practice that experts say raises the possibility of corruption and illegitimate prosecutions. According to the December civil rights lawsuit, narcotics bureau... Read More

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Philadelphia Police

December 29, 2017

Suspended NC State guard Johnson faces felony assault charge

CLEVELAND (AP) — Suspended North Carolina State guard Markell Johnson is facing a felony assault charge in his home state of Ohio. According to a court document, Johnson was among four people indicted Dec. 5 in Cuyahoga County. The document states they “did knowingly cause serious physical harm” to a male victim on or about... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

Basketball, Markell Johnson

December 29, 2017

Man accused of killing 2 says he’s ‘master of my own guise’

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and a Florida police officer has written to a judge, seeking all documents in his case. In the handwritten letter dated Dec. 15, the Orlando Sentinel reports that Markeith Loyd wrote that he is “the master of my own guise.” He added that any defense... Read More

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Markeith Loyd, Sade Dixon

December 29, 2017

Top German court rejects ex-Auschwitz guard’s prison appeal

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s highest court said Friday it has thrown out a bid by a 96-year-old former Auschwitz death camp guard for a reprieve on serving his sentence as an accessory to murder. Oskar Groening was convicted in July 2015 of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 Jews and sentenced to four... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

Nazi, Oskar Groening

December 29, 2017

Judge dismisses public-pay abortion challenge, appeal next

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois judge dealt a blow to anti-abortion groups Thursday, dismissing a lawsuit aimed at stopping a law that’s about to take effect that would expand Medicaid and state-employee group health insurance to cover abortions. Associate Circuit Judge Jennifer Ascher ruled that the judiciary should not intervene in “political questions” in... Read More

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Abortion

December 29, 2017

Mobster acquitted in ‘Goodfellas’ heist gets prison in arson

NEW YORK (AP) — A legendary airport robbery recounted in the movie “Goodfellas” came back to haunt an 82-year-old mobster on Thursday, when a judge cited evidence of his role in it while sentencing him to eight years in prison for an unrelated road rage arson. Vincent Asaro, balding and bespectacled, reacted to the sentence... Read More

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Goodfellas, Vincent Asaro

December 29, 2017

Judge blocks Arizona ethnic studies ban he found was racist

PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. judge has permanently blocked an ethnic studies ban in Arizona public schools that dismantled a popular Mexican-American studies program, dealing a final blow to a law that he found to be racially motivated. Following a seven-year court battle, U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima issued a final judgment Wednesday that... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Racism

December 29, 2017

Government seeks change to order lifting Trump refugee ban

SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers with the Department of Justice have asked a federal judge to change his order that partially lifted a Trump administration refugee ban. Just before Christmas, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle imposed a nationwide injunction that blocks restrictions on reuniting refugee families and partially lifted a ban on refugees from... Read More

Criminal Justice News, National Security, News

Travel Ban, Trump

December 29, 2017

Judge won’t tolerate ‘game-playing’ by neo-Nazi site founder

Andrew Anglin, founder of a neo-Nazi website notorious for its racist internet trolling campaigns, has dubiously claimed he lives in Nigeria. A process server swears he recently spotted The Daily Stormer’s publisher at a grocery store in his native Ohio. Anglin’s whereabouts — a key issue in a pair of lawsuits he faces — may... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Technology

Andrew Anglin, Racism, Website

December 28, 2017

New WAT Apps Released in App Stores!

We have launched our brand new apps in both the Apple iTunes App store as well as Google Play. The new apps feature lighting fast access to all the latest stories and crime news from the Wild About Trial website as well as live streaming trial feeds. With this new release we are also... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Technology

Android, Apps, Google Play, iTunes, Technology

December 28, 2017

Cleveland police officer acquitted in fatal shooting fired

CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland police officer has been fired for violating his department’s use-of-force policy despite being acquitted of a misdemeanor charge in the 2015 fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager after a store break-in. City officials say 50-year-old Alan Buford was fired Thursday for using force “greater than necessary during the incident.” A... Read More

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Alan Buford, Brandon Jones

Judge needs evidence to let illusionist undo porn plea

Court tosses conviction of man in 2011 policeman killing

Court: Families of serial killer’s victims can sue detective

In Philadelphia, claims of lies from within police force

Suspended NC State guard Johnson faces felony assault charge

Man accused of killing 2 says he’s ‘master of my own guise’

Top German court rejects ex-Auschwitz guard’s prison appeal

Judge dismisses public-pay abortion challenge, appeal next

Mobster acquitted in ‘Goodfellas’ heist gets prison in arson

Judge blocks Arizona ethnic studies ban he found was racist

Government seeks change to order lifting Trump refugee ban

Judge won’t tolerate ‘game-playing’ by neo-Nazi site founder

New WAT Apps Released in App Stores!

Cleveland police officer acquitted in fatal shooting fired

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