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Screenshot/Fox News As news broke that two of President Donald Trump’s former top aides were convicted of multiple federal crimes, Fox News focused its coverage on the killing of a 20-year-old college student. Critics lambasted the right-leaning network for minimizing coverage of the convictions of former top Trump aides Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen. As […]
Convictions for drink-driving and using a hand-held mobile phone at the wheel are in decline as the road safety message “finally sinks in”, said campaigners IAM RoadSmart. The figures show that in 2016 dangerous driving convictions rose to 5,235 compared to 3,425 in 2013. Since 2006 convictions for “failing to supply information as to identity […]
AP Photo/Richard Vogel San Francisco plans to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions now that the drug is fully legal in California. Anyone with a misdemeanor marijuana conviction will have their record wiped clean. The city will also review nearly 5,000 felony cases for possible action. Californians voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2016. […]
Fifteen men who were framed by a corrupt team of cops in Chicago have had their convictions thrown out en masse, leading to calls for hundreds of other cases linked to the team led by disgraced former officer Ronald Watts to be investigated. The 15 had their convictions quashed Thursday, and hours later, seven cops […]
A panel of Alberta judges has dismissed the appeal of a couple found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life to their 19-month-old son, who died of meningitis in 2012. CBC | Health News
LM Otero/AP Roughly half of the 675 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in February had either no criminal convictions, or had at most committed traffic violations, according to data obtained by The Washington Post. Of these: Two immigrants had been convicted of homicide 80 immigrants had been convicted of assault 57 immigrants had been convicted […]
Two men who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon last year were found guilty of conspiracy by a federal jury. However, the same jurors cleared two other occupiers of the same charge stemming from the armed standoff with federal agents. On Friday, Jason Patrick, 43, and Darryl Thorn, 32, were found guilty of […]
Getty/Joshua Lott Prosecutors from Cook County, Chicago are looking for additional cases of corruption surrounding a former Chicago police officer, the Chicago Tribune reported on Monday. Prosecutors alleged that there may have been more compromised convictions involving Sgt. Ronald Watts and his subordinates stretching back almost 10 years — far more than the four drug […]
