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A California woman who got out of jail scot-free after stabbing her boyfriend 108 times in a marijuana-induced psychosis is appealing her slap-on-the-wrist conviction, arguing that she was tricked into using the drug to begin with. Bryn Spejcher, 32, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after she stabbed Chad O’Melia, 26, dozens of times before turning the knife on her dog …

Liars don’t win trials.The truth does.That’s how it’s supposed to work, anyway. Fulfilling that maxim is the challenge for the defense in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump.Lawyers for the former President are tasked with exposing the legal deceit of District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the chronic dishonesty of his star witness, Michael Cohen.Compounding the challenge is a presiding judge, …

The start of the first civil trial stemming from the 2021 Astroworld festival, at which 10 people were killed in a crowd surge, has been delayed. Jury selection had been set to begin next Tuesday in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed the family of Madison Dubiski, a 23-year-old Houston resident who was killed during the crowd crush at the Nov. 5, …

First things first: The most important thing you can read this week, if you are an American concerned with the rule of law, is Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy’s essay, “How Judge Merchan Is Orchestrating Trump’s Conviction.” What McCarthy chronicles is the absolutely shocking attempt by trial judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to secure, by any …

Criminology Ph.D. student turned quadruple murder suspect Byran Kohberger returned to an Idaho courtroom Thursday as his defense lawyers claimed prosecutors turned over key evidence in discovery — but only in an altered form. The defense is seeking additional evidence through discovery, including the full surveillance video that allegedly places Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra near the crime scene. “The public …

Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly said men came towards his home with an AK-47 aimed at him the day he was arrested for murder. “He turned towards me … pointed the AK at me. And that’s when — everybody says was the dumbest thing I ever did — they said you should have shot him because he was getting ready …

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused. Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud.The Trump hush money trial is like “Waiting for Godot” —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction.The titular Godot, of course, never arrives.It is an apt metaphor for Bragg’s case against …

Karen Read‘s defense team came out swinging in her murder trial with accusations that the lead investigator searched her phone for nude photos and texted his friends that he “wished she would kill herself.” Her lawyer, David Yanetti, didn’t mince words during his opening statements Monday morning. “Karen Read was framed” for her Boston cop boyfriend’s death in January 2022, …

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation on Monday said Suzanne Morphew, a mom of two who went missing almost four years ago on Mother’s Day in 2020, died by homicide “in the setting of” drug intoxication. Authorities announced last year that Morphew’s remains were located in the area of Moffat, Colorado, in Saguache County — about 45 miles south of her …

Karen Read’s lawyer dropped bombshell accusations during opening statements in Read’s murder trial, including an investigator’s search for nude photos of her and “revealing texts” to friends on his personal phone. Read allegedly killed her boyfriend – Boston police officer John O’Keefe – when she backed over him with her car after an alcohol-fueled fight during a snowy night on …