Jury deliberates for 2nd day on penalty in scholar’s slaying

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Jurors are set to resume deliberations on whether an ex-University of Illinois doctoral student deserves the death penalty for slaying a 26-year-old scholar from China. Thursday will be their second day of deliberations on whether Brendt Christensen should die or spend the rest his life behind bars for abducting Yingying Zhang,... Read More

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Brendt Christensen

July 18, 2019

Former death row inmate could learn whether he’ll go home

CINCINNATI (AP) — A 49-year-old Jordanian man who spent two decades on Ohio’s death row could soon find out whether he is going home. Judge J. Patrick Foley III in Hamilton County will hear Thursday whether an agreement has been reached in the case of Ahmad Fawzi Issa (AH’-mahd FOW’-zee EE’-sah). Issa was sentenced to... Read More

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Ahmad Fawzi Issa

July 18, 2019

Mother of starved Virginia teen pleads no contest to murder

HOPEWELL, Va. (AP) — The mother of a Virginia boy who died from severe starvation and neglect has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports 37-year-old Amy FaJohn entered her plea in court on Wednesday. Prosecutors dropped charges of first-degree murder and felony child neglect. A coroner said that when 13-year-old Jalen... Read More

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Amy FaJohn

July 17, 2019

Epstein defense offers explanation for foreign passport

NEW YORK (AP) — Defense attorneys told a court Tuesday that financier Jeffrey Epstein obtained a foreign passport decades ago out of fear that he might be kidnapped in the Middle East, seeking to allay concerns over the apparently phony travel document. Prosecutors have said the passport was under an alias. They have pointed to... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

July 17, 2019

Second special prosecutor appointed over Greitens case

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Last year’s criminal case involving Missouri’s former governor is under the scrutiny of a second special prosecutor, this time to investigate allegations from St. Louis’ prosecutor. Presiding St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison on Tuesday appointed retired Boone County Associate Circuit Judge Michael Bradley to investigate allegations against Eric Greitens’ attorneys... Read More

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Eric Greitens

July 17, 2019

No bail for Mexican megachurch leader in child rape case

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The leader of Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo was ordered held without bail Tuesday on charges of child rape and human trafficking after a historically high $50 million bail was set earlier in the case. Naasón Joaquín García is a danger to the community and a flight risk, Superior Court... Read More

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Naasón Joaquín García

July 17, 2019

LA County to pay $53M over strip searches of female inmates

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County will pay $53 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged tens of thousands of women were given invasive group strip searches at a jail, according to court filings Tuesday. The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2010 on behalf of former inmates who said they were placed in groups... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

July 17, 2019

California pot seller asks court to void county delivery ban

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another legal fight is underway over home marijuana delivery in California. A licensed cannabis company has sued Santa Cruz County, claiming that it’s violating state law by prohibiting deliveries from out-of-county retailers into a swath of unincorporated areas. The East of Eden Cannabis Co. lawsuit filed Friday in Superior Court in... Read More

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Eden Cannabis Co.

July 17, 2019

Questions and answers on new US asylum ban

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A major immigration policy shift took effect Tuesday to deny asylum to anyone who shows up on the Mexican border after traveling through another country. The dramatic move will likely have the biggest impact on Guatemalans and Hondurans, who must pass through Mexico to reach the U.S. by land. Together, they... Read More

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Asylum

July 17, 2019

California indictment alleges MS-13 hacked victims to death

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Members and associates of the MS-13 gang committed seven murders including several in which victims were hacked to death with machetes in a Southern California forest, according to a federal indictment released Tuesday. The indictment by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles charges 22 people linked to a subset of... Read More

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MS-13

July 17, 2019

Suspect in Detroit killings to stand trial in separate case

DETROIT (AP) — A man who police have called a suspect in the killings of three women in Detroit will stand trial in a separate case involving the stabbing and sexual assault of a woman who escaped. Deangelo Martin appeared at a hearing Tuesday on charges of criminal sexual conduct and assault with intent to... Read More

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Deangelo Martin

July 17, 2019

Closings at death-penalty phase in slain scholar case

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are delivering final arguments to jurors on whether a former University of Illinois doctoral student should be sentenced to death for killing a young scholar from China. Closing arguments Wednesday come after testimony in the death-penalty phase of 30-year-old Brendt Christensen’s case. Jurors will begin deliberating after... Read More

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Brendt Christensen

July 17, 2019

Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ faces sentencing in US case

NEW YORK (AP) — Will the notorious Mexican drug lord known as “El Chapo” go quietly? For Joaquin Guzman, that’s the biggest question at his sentencing in New York City on Wednesday. The highly-anticipated hearing could be his last chance to speak publicly before spending the rest of his life behind bars at a maximum... Read More

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El Chapo

July 17, 2019

Court hearing scheduled in Maryland newspaper shooting case

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A judge is scheduled to hear arguments on pretrial matters in the case of a man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper last year. The hearing in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court is set for Wednesday in Annapolis. Prosecutors have asked Judge Laura Ripken to order the release... Read More

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Jarrod Ramos

Jury deliberates for 2nd day on penalty in scholar’s slaying

Former death row inmate could learn whether he’ll go home

Mother of starved Virginia teen pleads no contest to murder

Epstein defense offers explanation for foreign passport

Second special prosecutor appointed over Greitens case

No bail for Mexican megachurch leader in child rape case

LA County to pay $53M over strip searches of female inmates

California pot seller asks court to void county delivery ban

Questions and answers on new US asylum ban

California indictment alleges MS-13 hacked victims to death

Suspect in Detroit killings to stand trial in separate case

Closings at death-penalty phase in slain scholar case

Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ faces sentencing in US case

Court hearing scheduled in Maryland newspaper shooting case

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