Bill Cosby’s daughter Ensa, 44, dies in Massachusetts

BOSTON (AP) — Bill Cosby’s 44-year-old daughter Ensa Cosby died in Massachusetts from kidney disease, a spokesman for the comedian said Monday. Spokesman Andrew Wyatt did not immediately offer other details about her death on Friday. “Please keep the Cosby family in your prayers and give them peace at this time,” he said. Bill Cosby... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Bill Cosby

February 27, 2018

Supreme Court declines to decide fate of ‘Dreamers’ just yet

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to bypass a federal appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The announcement means the case affecting “Dreamers” will have to work its... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

DACA, Dreamers

February 27, 2018

Prosecutors: Ex-SKorean president deserves 30 years in jail

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a 30-year prison term for former South Korean President Park Geun-hye for alleged bribery, abuse of power and other crimes in a landmark corruption case that marked a stunning fall from grace for the country’s first female leader and conservative icon. In the final trial session... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

Park Guen-hye

February 27, 2018

Hearing for Florida shooting suspect case canceled

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A Tuesday morning hearing in the criminal case against the suspect accused in the Florida high school shooting has been canceled. Prosecutors are seeking to obtain hair samples, fingerprints, DNA and photographs of Nikolas Cruz, 19. The hearing was removed from the court docket and no explanation was immediately available. Cruz,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Nikolas Cruz

February 26, 2018

California parents face new charges in kids’ torture case

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California couple suspected of starving and shackling some of their 13 children pleaded not guilty Friday to new charges of child abuse. David and Louise Turpin previously entered not-guilty pleas to torture and a raft of other charges and are being held on $12 million bail. Louise Turpin also... Read More

Bad Parenting, Criminal Justice News, News

David Allen Turpin, Louise Anna Turpin

February 26, 2018

Prosecutors: Developer gave illicit cash to LA politicians

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A real estate developer was charged Friday with making nearly $200,000 in illegal campaign contributions to committees that supported Mayor Eric Garcetti and seven other Los Angeles politicians while seeking approval to build a massive apartment complex. Samuel Leung, 67, was charged in Los Angeles Superior Court with conspiring to launder... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News, Politics

Samuel Leung

February 26, 2018

Texas dragging death killer loses federal court appeal

HOUSTON (AP) — A prisoner on Texas death row for the dragging death of a man nearly two decades ago in East Texas has lost a federal court appeal, moving him a step close to execution for the hate crime. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week turned down an appeal from 43-year-old... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

John William King

February 26, 2018

Man linked to art heist faces sentencing in weapons case

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A reputed mobster who authorities believe is the last surviving person of interest in the largest art heist in history is facing sentencing in an unrelated weapons case. Eighty-one-year-old Robert Gentile is set to be sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Hartford, Connecticut. Federal prosecutors have said they believe the Manchester... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Robert Gentile

February 26, 2018

Arizona could face fines in lawsuit over prison health care

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge overseeing a class-action lawsuit over the quality of health care in Arizona’s prisons will hold hearings this week to determine whether to fine the state for falling short in improving care for inmates. U.S. Magistrate David Duncan also will examine an allegation that the inmate-care provider skirted a promise Arizona... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Arizona, Charles Ryan, Prison

February 26, 2018

White nationalist’s college tour mired in litigation

CINCINNATI (AP) — White nationalist Richard Spencer plans to speak next week at Michigan State University, but the rest of his campus tour has bogged down for now in lawsuits or lack of agreement on timing because of safety concerns. His March 5 visit will come while MSU students are on spring break. He had... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Race

Richard Spencer

February 26, 2018

County to pay $4.5M to settle murder conviction lawsuit

CLEVELAND (AP) — Three Ohio men who spent two decades behind bars because police and prosecutors allegedly hid statements and evidence that could have cleared them in a 1995 slaying are expected to receive $1.5 million each to settle the county’s liability in federal lawsuits naming two former assistant prosecutors as defendants. A Cuyahoga County... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, News

Derrick Wheatt, Eugene Johnson, Laurese Glover

February 26, 2018

A fertility doctor’s secret, a special kinship decades later

ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Matt White remembers that day in September 2016 when a mystery began to unravel that would change his life. It started when White read a news report that Dr. Donald Cline, a retired Indianapolis fertility specialist, faced charges for lying when he denied he’d inseminated unwitting patients with his sperm decades... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Doctors, News

Donald Cline

February 26, 2018

Congress releases redacted, declassified Democratic memo

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks after President Donald Trump blocked the full release of a classified Democratic memo, the House intelligence committee published a redacted version of the document that aims to counter a narrative that Republicans on the committee have promoted for months — that the FBI and Justice Department conspired against Trump as... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

Donald Trump, Russia

February 26, 2018

Microsoft fights US in high court to protect global business

WASHINGTON (AP) — Microsoft has an eye on its international customers as it confronts the Trump administration in a Supreme Court fight about turning over emails to investigators. The justices will hear arguments Tuesday over whether the company, as part of an international drug trafficking investigation, must comply with an American warrant for emails stored... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Technology

Microsoft

Bill Cosby’s daughter Ensa, 44, dies in Massachusetts

Supreme Court declines to decide fate of ‘Dreamers’ just yet

Prosecutors: Ex-SKorean president deserves 30 years in jail

Hearing for Florida shooting suspect case canceled

California parents face new charges in kids’ torture case

Prosecutors: Developer gave illicit cash to LA politicians

Texas dragging death killer loses federal court appeal

Man linked to art heist faces sentencing in weapons case

Arizona could face fines in lawsuit over prison health care

White nationalist’s college tour mired in litigation

County to pay $4.5M to settle murder conviction lawsuit

A fertility doctor’s secret, a special kinship decades later

Congress releases redacted, declassified Democratic memo

Microsoft fights US in high court to protect global business

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