Tag Archives: trials

Maine man sentenced to 27 years in prison in New Year's Eve machete attack near Times Square

A Maine man who admitted trying to kill three police officers with a machete in a terrorist attack near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve 16 months ago was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday in a courtroom packed with officers. The sentencing of Trevor Bickford in Manhattan federal court came after Judge P. Kevin Castel …

Read More »

DA Bragg hoped Stormy Daniels would save Trump case, but something else happened

If you thought the Manhattan criminal trial of former President Donald Trump couldn’t devolve into more ridiculousness, it did on Tuesday. The folly of District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecution was further exposed when the notorious ex-porn star, Stormy Daniels, sashayed to the witness stand.Not unexpectedly, she offered a tutorial on her notorious vocation — sex. Her real name is Stephanie …

Read More »

Idaho students' former roommate breaks silence as judge closes suspect Kohberger's next hearing

A former roommate of two of the University of Idaho students killed in an ambush attack in November 2022 has broken her silence in a local news interview as she pushes for campus safety for other undergrads around the country. Suspected killer Bryan Kohberger, who was studying for a Ph.D. in criminology at the neighboring Washington State University, is being …

Read More »

'Not a chance': Experts weigh likelihood of Trump's Georgia case going to trial before 2024 election

With the Georgia Appeals Court decision to hear former President Donald Trump’s bid to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the case against him, some legal experts say there is little to no chance the case will go to trial before the November election as Willis had hoped. On Wednesday, the appeals court agreed to hear arguments …

Read More »

New poll reveals what voters think will happen in NY vs Trump

Nearly two-thirds of voters say former President Trump will be found guilty on some charges in his unprecedented criminal trial. Sixty-five percent of registered voters questioned in a Suffolk University/USA Today national poll of registered voters predict the former president will be convicted on some of the nearly three-dozen state felony charges he faces in his trial in New York …

Read More »

The family of Irvo Otieno criticizes move to withdraw murder charges for now against 5 deputies

A Virginia judge has signed off on a prosecutor’s request to withdraw charges against five more people in connection with the 2023 death of Irvo Otieno, a young man who was pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes while being admitted to a state psychiatric hospital. Judge Joseph Teefy of Dinwiddie Circuit Court on Sunday approved the prosecutor’s motion …

Read More »

NY v. Trump to resume Monday after eventful third week of testimony, thousands of dollars of gag order fines

Former President Trump’s criminal trial will resume Monday after an eventful third week that saw key witnesses testify and thousands of dollars in fines against the presumptive Republican nominee — with the possibility of additional fines looming. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The charges stem from a years-long investigation …

Read More »

Karen Read murder trial: Dashcam emerges from night of police officer boyfriend's death

Dashcam video shown in court during day three of Karen Read‘s murder trial was the public’s first glimpse of the night Boston police officer John O’Keefe was killed, but the footage was obscured by heavy snowfall and police flashlights against the pitch-black night sky. The video is about three minutes long and was initially played in a quiet courtroom, with …

Read More »

Detroit man sentenced to 80 years for fatal shootings of 2 West Virginia women

A Detroit man was sentenced on Monday to 80 years in prison for the slayings of two West Virginia women. Marquis Jermayne Goodman, 24, pleaded guilty in February to two counts of second-degree murder in the 2021 fatal shootings of Bria Nicole White, 26, and Kytiana Belcher, 22, in Charleston, West Virginia. DETROIT MAN REPORTEDLY USED OBITUARIES TO ROB FAMILIES …

Read More »

NY vs. Trump: Bragg's own witness, Hope Hicks, implodes case against Trump

In an epic miscalculation that backfired spectacularly, prosecutors in the Manhattan hush money trial of Donald Trump called Hope Hicks to the witness stand.The moment cross-examination began, their misbegotten case against the former president began to collapse. Hicks, who served as press secretary during the 2016 presidential campaign, explained that Trump’s motive for suppressing salacious stories was to protect his …

Read More »