Washington state sues over courthouse immigration arrests

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state sued the Trump administration Tuesday seeking to stop its practice of arresting people at courthouses for immigration violations, saying it interferes with the state’s authority to run its judicial system and endangers public safety. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle says that when Immigration and Customs Enforcement... Read More

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Immigration

December 18, 2019

‘Innocent Man’ inmate to walk free, but for how long?

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man is just days away from walking out of prison after a federal judge decided he has spent 35 years in prison for a kidnapping and murder that evidence indicates he likely didn’t commit, and yet his freedom could be short-lived. U.S. District Judge James Payne in August ordered... Read More

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Karl Fontenot

December 18, 2019

Watchdog seeks suspension of Indiana AG Hill’s law license

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana watchdog agency is seeking a two-year suspension of Attorney General Curtis Hill’s law license over allegations that the Republican drunkenly groped three women at a bar. The Indiana Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Commission recommended the suspension on Monday, but a hearing officer still must weigh in and the justices would have... Read More

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Curtis Hill

December 18, 2019

Michigan sues opioid distributors under drug dealer law

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan on Tuesday sued four companies over the deadly painkiller epidemic, becoming what state Attorney General Dana Nessel said is the first state to sue major opioid distributors under a liability law that is typically used to go after drug dealers. The lawsuit was filed in Wayne County and names as... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Opioids

December 18, 2019

Police: Boy, 13, says he handed off knife in Barnard killing

NEW YORK (AP) — A 13-year-old boy accused of aiding in the killing of a Barnard College freshman told police he picked up a dropped knife and handed it to another youth just before the fatal stabbing in a park near the school’s New York City campus, a detective testified Tuesday. The Dec. 11 confrontation,... Read More

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Tessa Majors

December 18, 2019

Judge rules in favor of US effort to take Snowden book money

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden violated secrecy agreements with the U.S. government that allow it to claim proceeds from a memoir he published earlier this year, a judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that Snowden is liable for breach of contract with the government because he published... Read More

Criminal Justice News, National Security, News

Edward Snowden

December 18, 2019

Nevada accuses US government of ‘secret plutonium smuggling’

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada wants a federal judge to declare illegal what it calls the U.S. government’s “secret plutonium smuggling operation” and order the removal of weapons-grade material already shipped to a security site north of Las Vegas over the state’s objections. The latest filing in a yearlong legal battle asks U.S. District Judge... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Environment, News

December 18, 2019

Judge OKs nearly $25 billion for PG&E fire victims, insurers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved two Pacific Gas & Electric settlements totaling $24.5 billion to help pay the losses suffered by homeowners, businesses and insurers in the aftermath of catastrophic Northern California wildfires that sent the nation’s largest utility into a financial morass. The decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, News

PG&E

December 17, 2019

Woman gets 10 months for Chinese maternity tourism scheme

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Chinese woman was sentenced to 10 months in prison Monday for running a business that helped pregnant women in China lie on visa forms and to immigration authorities so they could travel to Southern California to give birth to children who would automatically have American citizenship. U.S. District Judge... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

Dongyuan Li

December 17, 2019

Loughlin’s lawyers say prosecutors are hiding key evidence

BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband say federal prosecutors are holding back crucial evidence that could prove the couple’s innocence in a college admissions scandal that has ensnared dozens of wealthy parents. In a court motion filed Friday in Boston’s court, the couple’s lawyers asked a judge to... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Admissions Scheme, Lori Loughlin

December 17, 2019

California killer Lawrence Bittaker dies in prison at 79

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Lawrence Sigmond Bittaker, one of the “Tool Box Killers” who preyed on teenage girls in Southern California 40 years ago, has died of natural causes, state corrections officials said Monday. Bittaker and accomplice Roy Lewis North kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered five girls in 1979. Their nickname came from the... Read More

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Lawrence Bittaker

December 17, 2019

Nashville officer appeals decision on jury in shooting case

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A white Nashville police officer charged with fatally shooting an armed black man from behind is appealing a judge’s decision denying his request to draw a jury from outside the area. Defense attorney David Raybin said in court Monday that his client, Officer Andrew Delke, shouldn’t have to contend with the... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Guns, Law Enforcement, News

Andrew Delke

December 17, 2019

Judge permits Georgia voter roll purges, plans 2nd hearing

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge is allowing Georgia to proceed with a mass purge of its voting rolls planned for Monday evening, but he also scheduled a hearing later in the week to hear more arguments about the matter. That decision came after a lawyer for the state assured him that if the judge... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

December 17, 2019

Oklahoma appeals judge’s $465 million order in opioid case

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A judge didn’t order Johnson & Johnson to pay enough when he said the company must pay $465 million to address Oklahoma’s opioid crisis, the state said in an appeal filed Monday. Attorney General Mike Hunter’s office argues the award is only enough to pay for one year of the state’s... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Johnson & Johnson, Opioids

Washington state sues over courthouse immigration arrests

‘Innocent Man’ inmate to walk free, but for how long?

Watchdog seeks suspension of Indiana AG Hill’s law license

Michigan sues opioid distributors under drug dealer law

Police: Boy, 13, says he handed off knife in Barnard killing

Judge rules in favor of US effort to take Snowden book money

Nevada accuses US government of ‘secret plutonium smuggling’

Judge OKs nearly $25 billion for PG&E fire victims, insurers

Woman gets 10 months for Chinese maternity tourism scheme

Loughlin’s lawyers say prosecutors are hiding key evidence

California killer Lawrence Bittaker dies in prison at 79

Nashville officer appeals decision on jury in shooting case

Judge permits Georgia voter roll purges, plans 2nd hearing

Oklahoma appeals judge’s $465 million order in opioid case

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