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

December 2, 2017

Man acquitted in San Francisco shooting got lucky on lawyer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jose Inez Garcia Zarate grinned broadly and hugged his public defender tightly immediately after a jury acquitted him of killing a young woman on a San Francisco pier. Getting Matt Gonzalez to represent him was unquestionably a stroke of good luck for the five-times-deported Mexican national in the case that caused... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Immigration, Shooting

December 2, 2017

In Flynn, Mueller unearths more lies _ and a key witness

Michael Flynn's guilty plea Friday added a new layer of lies to the far-reaching investigation into ties between President Donald Trump and Russia... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Politics, Trump

December 2, 2017

San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts

The attacks on San Francisco and other cities with similar immigration policies began moments after a jury acquitted a Mexican man... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Guns, Immigration

December 1, 2017

Fifth grader challenges dress code that calls leggings a ‘distraction’

A homework assignment prompted this determined 10-year-old to take a stand against a school policy that body shames girls for wearing leggings. Falyn Handley, a fifth-grade student at Springdale Park Elementary School in Georgia, is going up against her school district’s dress code that prohibits “skin-tight,” clothing, referring to garments such as leggings as a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Lighter Side, News

Funny, School

December 1, 2017

The Latest: Gold trader testifies at New York trial

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest at the New York trial of a Turkish banker accused of laundering Iranian oil money (all times local): 1:15 p.m. A Turkish-Iranian gold trader says he overcame a banker’s fears he was too popular in Turkey to launder Iranian money by paying over $50 million in bribes to Turkey’s... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Finance, International Justice Watch, News

Finance

December 1, 2017

Pennsylvania man’s loudspeaker broadcast of ‘Taps’ ends

GLEN ROCK, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man whose nightly broadcast of taps through loudspeakers led to lawsuit threats and complaints from his neighbors played the recording for the last time Thursday night. U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joshua Corney and about two dozen supporters stood for the final playing of the taps outside Corney’s Glen... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Politics

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

Man acquitted in San Francisco shooting got lucky on lawyer

In Flynn, Mueller unearths more lies _ and a key witness

San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts

Fifth grader challenges dress code that calls leggings a ‘distraction’

The Latest: Gold trader testifies at New York trial

Pennsylvania man’s loudspeaker broadcast of ‘Taps’ ends

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