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Prosecutors urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. More

November 30, 2021

The prospective jurors in former Brooklyn Center Officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial have already responded to questionnaires similar to those used this year in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial for the killing of George Floyd.  More

November 30, 2021

Testimony begins Tuesday in the trial of ex-“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who prosecutors say staged a homophobic and racist attack. More

November 30, 2021

“She was in on it from the start. The defendant and Epstein lured their victims with a promise of a bright future, only to sexually exploit them,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Pomerantz said. More

November 30, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (Court TV) — Former veteran police officer Kim Potter is charged with first-degree and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop.Jury selection begins Tuesday in Hennepin County Court, the same courthouse where Derek Chauvin was convicted of George Floyd's murder several months earlier. More

November 29, 2021

Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack on himself by paying off two brothers. More

November 29, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years after Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide behind bars, a jury was selected Monday in New York City to determine a central question in the long-running sex trafficking case: Was his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s puppet or accomplice? Twelve jurors and six alternates will hear Maxwell’s case, starting with opening statements expected […] More

November 29, 2021

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The killing was captured on video and shared around the world: Ahmaud Arbery running toward and then around an idling pickup truck before its driver blasted him at close range with a shotgun. Soon after Travis McMichael fatally shot Arbery on Feb. 23, 2020, his father, Greg […] More

November 24, 2021

All three men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday. More

November 24, 2021

A jury ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay more than $26 million in damages Tuesday over the violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. More

November 24, 2021

Jury deliberations continue for a second day Wednesday in the trial of three white men charged with chasing and killing Ahmaud Arbery. More

November 24, 2021

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of engineering a massive medical scam, expressed some remorse while on the witness stand Tuesday, but denied trying to conceal that her company’s blood-testing methods weren’t working as she had promised. In her third day of […] More

November 23, 2021

By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Moments before a Tennessee judge freed him from death row, Pervis Payne walked into a courtroom, hugged his lawyer and wept. Payne, who was sentenced to death in the 1987 killings of a mother and daughter, held attorney Kelley Henry tightly and thanked her for arguing […] More

November 23, 2021

Darrell Brooks Jr. rocked back and forth in his seat and cried throughout his court hearing on Tuesday, where he was charged in the deadly Waukesha parade crash. More

November 23, 2021

By DAVID FISCHER Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Brian Laundrie, who was found dead last month in a Florida swamp, shot himself in the head, officials announced Tuesday. Laundrie had been the subject of a manhunt for more than a month as investigators searched for clues in the slaying of his girlfriend, Gabby Petito, during their […] More

November 23, 2021

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press A rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author Alice Sebold has been overturned because of what authorities determined were serious flaws with the 1982 prosecution and concerns the wrong man had been sent to jail. Anthony Broadwater, who spent 16 years in prison, was cleared Monday […] More

November 23, 2021

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Before jurors in the trial of the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery retired to the jury room to begin their deliberations, the judge read them specific instructions on the law that’s applicable to this case. The jury instructions, also called the jury charge, […] More

November 23, 2021

Brian Laundrie died by suicide, the Laundrie family attorney said in a statement on Tuesday. More

November 23, 2021

Kevin Strickland has always maintained that he was home watching TV and had nothing to do with the killings, which happened when he was 18 years old. More

November 23, 2021

Former NFL running back Zac Stacy has been arrested after the mother of his child showed detectives video of him attacking her at her central Florida home, authorities said. More

November 23, 2021

“You can’t claim self-defense if you are the unjustified aggressor,” Linda Dunikoski said. “Who started this? It wasn’t Ahmaud Arbery.” More

November 23, 2021

Elizabeth Holmes' testimony, which focused largely on her enthusiasm based on positive early tests of that blood-testing technology, may be her best shot to avoid conviction on charges of criminal fraud. More

November 23, 2021

In charging documents, Leannah Gardipe's mother called 911 to report that her daughter had called her and said she "saved her babies." More

November 23, 2021

A judge on Monday officially exonerated four young African American men of the false accusation that they raped a white woman seven decades ago. More

November 23, 2021

Kevin Spacey and his production companies must pay the studio behind "House of Cards" more than $30 million because of losses brought on by his firing for sexual misconduct. More

November 22, 2021

By RUSS BYNUM Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys made a final push Monday to persuade the jury in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, with the prosecution saying that three white men chased him solely “because he was a Black man running down the street” and defense attorneys repeatedly blaming Arbery for his own […] More

November 22, 2021

Police in Denver suburb of Aurora arrest 3 teens in connection with shooting of 3 students in high school parking lot. TV station quoted city police chief say gang involvement suspected. More

November 22, 2021

Former Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs stern talking-to from Vegas judge but allowed to remain house arrest alcohol monitor on ankle + GPS monitor on other following fatal crash + DUI. More

November 22, 2021

Michael Cohen - Trump personal lawyer until 2018 arrest - said three-year prison sentence mostly spent in home confinement was over and vowed to continue cooperating with law enforcement. More

November 22, 2021

By Grace Wong, Court TV KENOSHA, Wis. (CourtTV) – The Rittenhouse verdict paved the way for a passionate debate about guns, self-defense and justice. What the public was unaware of was the sequence of events taking place before the widely contended verdict that has captivated so many. More

November 22, 2021