Lawyers for the Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student accused of massacring four University of Idaho undergrads in a home invasion stabbing told the judge Wednesday that they “firmly” believe their client is innocent. Bryan Kohberger, a 29-year-old from Pennsylvania, returned to the Latah County courthouse in Moscow, Idaho, for an afternoon hearing on defense efforts for a change of …
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More than two decades after jurors found disgraced NFL star O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder charges in a Los Angeles stabbing that left his ex-wife and her friend dead in a blood-soaked courtyard, a Nevada jury found him guilty of a slew of felonies for an armed robbery involving some of his own memorabilia. After his acquittal in the …
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The June 12, 1994, killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman brought what’s dubbed the “Trial of the Century” that culminated with O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of the murders. The announcement Thursday that Simpson is dead has brought renewed attention to the closely watched trial and the fascinating cast of characters who played a role in the case. …
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FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Despite a murder conviction against a man whose DNA and footprints were found at …
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Federal prosecutors agreed to Nadine Menendez’s request to postpone trial on Wednesday after her lawyers said she was dealing with serious health issues. Prosecutors said in a letter to the court that it “takes seriously the unexpected medical development,” and that a trial delay would allow her enough time to recover. Nadine, the wife of embattled Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.,, …
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MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, eight years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate. Knox, who was a 20-year-old student when she was accused along with her then-boyfriend of murdering …
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Judge Cheryl Matthews of Oakland County, Michigan, on Tuesday sentenced James and Jennifer Crumbley, parents of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley, to a term of 10 to 15 years in prison each with credit for time served. Two separate juries found both James and Jennifer guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting on Nov. …
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The parents of Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley are set to be sentenced on Tuesday after two juries found both parents guilty of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the November 2021 massacre. Prosecutors are asking Oakland County Judge Cheryl Matthews to sentence James and Jennifer Crumbley to serve between 10 and 15 years each, but the Crumbleys’ defense attorneys …
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PHOENIX (AP) — Jurors in the case of an Arizona rancher charged with fatally shooting a migrant on his property will be allowed to visit the ranch near the border with Mexico as early as this week as the trial enters its second half. Judge Thomas Fink of the Santa Cruz County Superior Court said last week he would allow …
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Karen Conti was a fledgling lawyer in the early 1990s when she was asked to defend John Wayne Gacy, but she wanted “to look evil in the eye,” so she took the case. As a fierce opponent of the death penalty, Conti became the only female lawyer on his death row defense team, which led to hours of talks with …
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