U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday denied motions by two of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants to dismiss charges in the classified documents case. Trump aide Walt Nauta's lawyers asked this month for five charges against him to be dismissed, while lawyers for Carlos De Oliveira, who was the property manager at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida estate, requested that all charges against him be tossed out. In her filing in Florida, Cannon said De Oliveira "does not meaningfully...
A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against former President Donald Trump and denied Trump’s motion for a new trial. Judge Lewis Kaplan, in a written opinion, said Trump’s legal arguments are without merit. The judge also found that the punitive damages the jury awarded to Carroll “passes constitutional muster.” Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then...
Dozens of death penalty convictions in Alameda County must be reviewed after prosecutors there were found to have intentionally excluded Black and Jewish jurors during a murder trial in 1995, a federal judge ordered. Handwritten notes from prosecutors in the decades-old case suggests the attorneys were involved in "serious misconduct," but Alameda County Dist. Atty. Pamela Price on Monday said additional evidence suggests more death penalty cases may have been tainted by prosecutors trying to...
A San Diego County Superior Court judge overseeing the trial of a man charged with a 1988 murder in Seal Beach Monday in San Diego granted an evidentiary hearing related to new allegations of prosecutorial misconduct stemming from Orange County’s jail informant scandal. San Diego County Superior Court Judge Daniel B. Goldstein granted the evidentiary […]
MCRAE-HELENA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said Monday investigators have found new evidence in a case involving the January 2015 deaths of Bud and June Runion. According to a GBI news release, a citizen found a .22 caliber rifle on April 14 while magnet fishing in Horse Creek on Old Prison Camp Road. “The same person
A veterinarian who contends members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department fabricated a memo to cover up the 2020 death of a bomb-sniffing dog can move forward with her lawsuit for now, a judge ruled Tuesday. Plaintiff Yolanda Cassidy maintains in her Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that the communication at issue falsely stated […]
The Houston rapper headlined and helped organize the 2021 concert, where 10 people died during a compaction of the crowd. Hundreds of lawsuits were subsequently filed by the victims' families and others who were injured.
A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump's request for a new trial in the civil
One of the panelists suddenly removed from the Donald Trump hush-money jury in New York blasted the judge in the case Thursday as a coward and the prosecutors as unfair.
Jury deliberations have begun in the trial of a man accused of fatally running over a Toronto police officer, with the judge providing guidance to them, including that the Crown prosecutors have no evidence that "fully supports" their case. Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy told jurors on Thursday that the police officers’ testimony that is the foundation of the case against Umar Zameer doesn`t match the physical evidence, and advised them to watch out for possible collusion that...
A Lake County Sheriff’s Office canine this week helped investigators find evidence that led to the arrest of a suspect in a child pornography case in Beach Park. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office said Canine Tera, short for “terabyte,” which is a computer reference, assisted with a recent search warrant. The warrant was executed early […]