Lawyers: Ronaldo accuser suffers from post-traumatic stress

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lawyers for a Nevada woman accusing Cristiano Ronaldo of raping her nine years ago said Wednesday that their client has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and depression, conditions they argue would have made her legally incompetent to reach a non-disclosure agreement. Kathryn Mayorga didn’t appear with her lawyers at a news... Read More

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Cristiano Ronaldo

October 4, 2018

Cemetery case puts property rights issue before high court

SCOTT TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Rose Mary Knick makes no bones about it. She doesn’t buy that there are bodies buried on her eastern Pennsylvania farmland, and she doesn’t want people strolling onto her property to visit what her town says is a small cemetery. Six years ago, however, Knick’s town passed an ordinance that... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

October 4, 2018

Senate gets FBI Kavanaugh report, with initial vote Friday

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate braced for a crucial initial vote Friday on Brett Kavanaugh’s tottering Supreme Court nomination after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set his polarized chamber on a schedule to decide an election-season battle that has consumed the nation. A showdown roll call over confirmation seemed likely over the weekend. McConnell, R-Ky., cemented... Read More

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Brett Kavanaugh

October 4, 2018

Financially hard-up women get help in pursuing MeToo cases

NEW YORK (AP) — A dollar store cashier from Brooklyn. Five fire department paramedics in Chicago. An aspiring singer shunned by Nashville’s country music establishment. Thanks to a $22 million legal fund, they’ve now teamed up with top-notch lawyers to pursue #MeToo-style sex harassment cases that they otherwise couldn’t have afforded. In its early phases,... Read More

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MeToo

October 3, 2018

Trump says ‘scary time’ for young men facing false charges

WASHINGTON (AP) — Men of America, be afraid. This could happen to you. That’s the alarm President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are increasingly sounding as they try to defend their Supreme Court nominee from sexual assault allegations. The three-decade-old accusation facing Brett Kavanaugh is not only false, they argue, but an example of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Donald Trump

October 3, 2018

Cardi B gets assault summons but lawyer say she did no harm

NEW YORK (AP) — Cardi B was given a summons on Monday for misdemeanor reckless endangerment and assault in connection with a melee at a New York strip club. The platinum rapper was charged after agreeing to meet with investigators at a Queens police station. Afterward, she left with a smile on her face, but... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Cardi B

October 3, 2018

NBC faces scrutiny for interview with Kavanaugh accuser

NEW YORK (AP) — When a third woman came forward to accuse Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct during 1980s house parties in Maryland, some in the mainstream media kept their distance. NBC News made a different decision. MSNBC aired a 10-minute story Monday about reporter Kate Snow’s interview with Julie Swetnick, with... Read More

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Brett Kavanaugh, Julie Swetnick

October 3, 2018

Vegas lawyer: Ronaldo rape accuser ’emotionally fragile’

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer for a Nevada woman alleging that soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo raped her in Las Vegas in 2009 said Tuesday her client was “emotionally fragile” and agreed to an out-of-court financial settlement nine years ago because she never wanted her name made public. Kathryn Mayorga is out of the U.S.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News, Sports

Cristiano Ronaldo

October 3, 2018

Lawsuit accuses Facebook of enabling human traffickers

HOUSTON (AP) — A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into the sex trade.” The lawsuit was filed Monday in Houston against Facebook, the shuttered classifieds site Backpage.com and the owners of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Technology

Facebook

October 3, 2018

California’s Catholic bishops targeted in sex abuse lawsuit

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who says he was sexually abused decades ago by his parish priest said Tuesday he is suing all Catholic bishops in California and the Archdiocese of Chicago, seeking to compel church officials to release records on clergy abuse. The filing Tuesday in Los Angeles by Thomas Emens claims a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Religion, Sexual Abuse

Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

October 3, 2018

Chicago cop: Video of shooting ‘doesn’t show my perspective’

CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald testified Tuesday that he opened fire when the black teenager kept advancing toward him while waving a knife, adamantly sticking to his version of events even when confronted with video that showed a different scene. In a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonald

October 3, 2018

4 men arrested in connection with violent Virginia rally

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Four members of a militant white supremacist group from California were arrested on charges they traveled to Virginia last year to incite a riot and attack counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally that turned deadly, federal authorities said Tuesday. The defendants — Benjamin Drake Daley, Michael Paul Miselis, Thomas Walter Gillen... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Race

University of Virginia

October 3, 2018

West Virginia justice to keep job, another goes on trial

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — One West Virginia Supreme Court justice has survived an impeachment scare. Another could face more serious consequences than the potential loss of his seat. Beth Walker will remain in office after state senators rejected an impeachment article against her after a two-day trial. Tuesday’s 32-1 vote with one senator absent came... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Allen Loughry

October 3, 2018

Historian seeks grand jury transcripts in notorious lynching

ATLANTA (AP) — Seven decades ago, members of a Georgia grand jury heard 16 days of testimony but declared they were unable identify or indict anyone involved in the brazen lynching of two young black couples on a country road. Now a historian is fighting to find out what happened in that grand jury room.... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Race

Lawyers: Ronaldo accuser suffers from post-traumatic stress

Cemetery case puts property rights issue before high court

Senate gets FBI Kavanaugh report, with initial vote Friday

Financially hard-up women get help in pursuing MeToo cases

Trump says ‘scary time’ for young men facing false charges

Cardi B gets assault summons but lawyer say she did no harm

NBC faces scrutiny for interview with Kavanaugh accuser

Vegas lawyer: Ronaldo rape accuser ’emotionally fragile’

Lawsuit accuses Facebook of enabling human traffickers

California’s Catholic bishops targeted in sex abuse lawsuit

Chicago cop: Video of shooting ‘doesn’t show my perspective’

4 men arrested in connection with violent Virginia rally

West Virginia justice to keep job, another goes on trial

Historian seeks grand jury transcripts in notorious lynching

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