A man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison with 20 suspended after he was found guilty of several crimes, including first-degree murder, on Tuesday in connection to two incidents in 2021 in which he attacked a Greater Richmond Transit Company (GRTC) bus driver and fatally shot a passenger of a different bus a month later.
CHICAGO >> The singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago, a federal appeals court ruled today.
In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois' former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex crime prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive.
In his appeal, Kelly argued that Illinois' former and shorter statute of limitations on child sex crime prosecutions should have applied to his Chicago case rather than current law permitting charges while an accuser is still alive.
A federal appeals court says singer R. Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex convictions in Chicago. Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer on three charges of producing child sexual abuse images and three charges of enticement of minors for sex. Kelly's attorney called the decision disappointing and says they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review Friday's decision by the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Kelly is also serving a...
The authorities also outlawed Meta as an extremist organization and blocked Facebook and Instagram in Russia.
A Las Vegas man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son is due to appear in court on Tuesday. Brandon Toseland, 37, is getting a new defense lawyer, according to court documents.
Former president is asking the Supreme Court to award him broad immunity from all criminal prosecution
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era and left those who testified in the case bracing for a retrial against the ex-movie mogul. The court found the trial []
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday threw out Harvey Weinstein ’s 2020 rape conviction with a ruling that shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era and left those who testified in the case bracing for a retrial against the ex-movie mogul. The court found the trial []
Imagine a large group of activists assembled outside the White House, peacefully protesting a recent decision by the president. They are waving signs denouncing the new policy, holding banners demanding change and chanting slogans about that president. As their numbers begin to swell, as their voices grow louder, the president issues an order to military commanders: Take them out. Our military leadership would then be faced with an impossible choice. They’d either have to follow the clearly...
The court’s decision — whenever it comes — will go a long way in determining a trial date for Trump in one of the four criminal prosecutions that he faces