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Legendary comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in prison following his conviction for three counts of sexual assault. The sentence was issued Tuesday in a Pennsylvania courtroom, where the judge presiding over Cosby’s case said “equal justice under the law” means the former TV star should not receive a different sentence based on “who […]
Fox News A juror who participated in the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, said just one holdout prevented the jury from convicting Manafort on all of the 18 federal charges he faced. In a Fox News interview on Wednesday, Paula Duncan, a self-described Trump supporter, said the unidentified juror was […]
Reuters/Stephen Lam An appeals court on Wednesday rejected a former Stanford University swimmer’s bid for a new trial and upheld his sexual assault and attempted rape convictions. The three-judge panel of the 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose ruled Wednesday that there was “substantial evidence” that Brock Turner received a fair trial. In […]
Many were upset that e-waste recycling pioneer Eric Lundgren was going to prison for creating his unofficial Windows restore discs, and in some cases pointed the finger at Microsoft for its role in the conviction. Microsoft, however, doesn’t think he’s a hero… and thinks it’s getting a bad rap. The software giant has posted a […]
Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office Brock Turner, who was convicted in 2016 of sexual assault and served a three-month sentence, appealed his conviction on Friday. Turner’s lawyers argued in the appeal that a prosecutor in the trial incorrectly told jurors the sexual assault occurred behind a trash bin, rather than a garbage enclosure. This gave the impression Turner […]
A former US Marine sentenced for urinating on the corpses of Afghans believed to be Taliban fighters in 2011 has had his conviction overturned. An appeals court ruled the Marine Commandant, who was seeking harsh punishment for those involved, had interfered in the trial. The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the previous ruling […]
Enlarge / Front row from left, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, back row from left, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch. […]
Enlarge / New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in January 2013. (credit: Getty | Boston Globe) Former New England Patriots’ tight end Aaron Hernandez had a severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with repeated head trauma. The finding was announced today in a press conference held by his lawyer, […]
Victims and relatives of those slain or injured in the mass 2007 killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians by Blackwater contractors in Baghdad told RT they are outraged by the recent overturning of a murder conviction by a US court for the chief perpetrator. Read more Last week, the US Court of Appeals in the DC […]
An appeals court vacated the first-degree murder conviction of a Blackwater guard and ordered a new trial on Friday. Nicholas Slatten was charged with being involved in the 2007 incident where private security contractors working for the US government opened fire in Baghdad and left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and others wounded. […]
