Latest Crime & Trial News

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has forced a judge to postpone the Los Angeles murder trial of millionaire Robert Durst. More

March 30, 2020

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for more than two decades, has died in prison. He was 67. California corrections officials said Franklin was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State Prison on Saturday […] More

March 30, 2020

What does the latest court decision regarding Jussie Smollett's legal representation mean for his case and the law? More

March 27, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — The judge who sentenced the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine to prison said Wednesday he would have ordered home confinement instead if he had known about the coronavirus in December. U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer commented in a written order even as he rejected a lawyer’s request that the 23-year-old performer, whose […] More

March 26, 2020

Despite courthouses across the country closing due to the spread of COVID-19, a Florida jury pressed on, rendering a guilty verdict in the capital murder trial of Andre Warner. More

March 26, 2020

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli urged a judge to dismiss charges against them in the college admissions bribery case. More

March 26, 2020

California attorney Mike Avenatti has asked a judge to reject a jury's verdict that found he tried to extort Nike for millions of dollars. More

March 25, 2020

Two former aides of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and 18 others have been charged in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. More

March 25, 2020

By WALTER BERRY Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld Jodi Arias’ first-degree murder conviction and life prison sentence in the 2008 killing of her former boyfriend. Arias’ lawyers had argued that a prosecutor’s misconduct and a judge’s failure to control news coverage during the case deprived her of […] More

March 25, 2020

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman called authorities and admitted to killing her child nearly a decade ago, police say. Zohal Sakwall, 40, told Nashville detectives that she suffocated her 4-month-old daughter, Natalie, with a plastic bag in June 2010, according to a news release Tuesday from the police department. Sakwall called the Metro Nashville Police […] More

March 25, 2020

Former school teacher, Virginia Vertetis, has won a new trial after being convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison for murdering her boyfriend, retired NYPD officer Patrick Gilhuley in her Mount Olive home. Although the defense challenged the jury’s conviction on several grounds, the appellate court ultimately found in Vertetis’ favor ruling that trial […] More

March 23, 2020

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A former teacher sentenced to 30 years in state prison for gunning down her boyfriend in 2014 will get a new trial after filing for appeal. Virginia Vertetis, 57, was convicted in 2017 of first-degree murder in the shooting death of retired New York City cop Patrick Gilhuley in her Mount Olive home. […] More

March 20, 2020

A Florida woman is behind bars after she reportedly confessed to killing her 81-year-old mother in their home. Crystal Marie Williams, 38, is accused of murdering Carmelina Kohler on March 9 in Vero Beach.  Crystal told authorities she was helping move boxes when Carmelina “made a comment that sent (her) into a rage,” according to […] More

March 20, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein has sued Netflix and film director Ava DuVernay over her portrayal in the streaming service’s miniseries about the Central Park Five case, which sent five black and Latino teenagers to prison for a crime they were later absolved of committing. Fairstein claims in the lawsuit, filed […] More

March 19, 2020

A date with a stranger ended in death for young single dad Adam Hilaire who found himself on the violent end of a crime when Hailey Bustos, the woman he met on an online dating app, came to Hilaire’s apartment with the alleged trigger man Andre Warner, now facing the death penalty, and two other accomplices. More

March 19, 2020

One day before his 68th birthday, Harvey Weinstein was transferred to a New York state prison to serve a 23-year sentence. More

March 19, 2020

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — A woman accused of helping to cover up the disappearance and presumed killing of a Connecticut mother of five has asked a judge to block a variety of evidence, alleging police made false statements in several search warrant applications and didn’t show there was probable cause for the searches. Michelle Troconis […] More

March 18, 2020

LONDON (AP) — The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, was convicted Tuesday of murder for helping to plan the attack. A jury at London’s Central Criminal Court found Hashem Abedi, 22, guilty of 22 counts of murder, one count of attempted murder […] More

March 17, 2020

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nearly two decades after the Roman Catholic priest-abuse scandal exploded in the U.S. in 2002, only one church official has ever gone to prison over it: Monsignor William Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy in the Philadelphia archdiocese. After an appeals court found his sweeping 2012 trial […] More

March 16, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors hit R. Kelly with more criminal charges Friday, accusing the disgraced R&B singer of having unprotected sex with a girl in 2015 without disclosing he had herpes. The new racketeering charges were included in a revised indictment filed in New York City a week after the 53-year-old Kelly pleaded […] More

March 13, 2020

Joseph James DeAngelo is suspected of at least 13 murders and more than 50 rapes across California in the 1970s and 1980s. More

March 13, 2020

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors have formally charged a Colorado woman suspected of killing her missing stepson.   Letecia Stauch appeared in court for an advisement hearing in Colorado Springs on Wednesday on several charges, including first-degree murder of a child, in the presumed death of 11-year-old Gannon Stauch. The document laying out the […] More

March 13, 2020

GRANGEVILLE, Idaho (AP) — Two sisters from north-central Idaho pleaded guilty to amended chargings in a murder-for-hire scheme after trying to hire an undercover deputy to kill their neighbor earlier this year. The charges for 51-year-old Debra Wensman and 46-year-old Doris Wensman were amended from the original charges of criminal solicitation to commit a crime […] More

March 12, 2020

By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Lawyers for a short-order cook shot by Chicago police trying to arrest him for using a subway train’s gangway doors filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging officers used excessive force in violation of policies laid out in court-monitored police reforms. Neither officer seeking to detain 33-year-old […] More

March 12, 2020

The remains found Friday are those of Evelyn Mae Boswell, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Leslie Earhart said. More

March 12, 2020

In a three-day opening statement Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Lewin laid out the state’s case against accused murderer Robert Durst for killing long-time friend Susan Berman. More

March 11, 2020

Harvey Weinstein faced a maximum of 29 years in prison at his sentencing for rape and sexual assault in New York. More

March 11, 2020

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — After winning guilty verdicts against top Enron executives in one of the most high-profile cases of corporate fraud, the lead prosecutor declared: “No matter how rich and powerful you are, you have to play by the rules.” More than a decade later, that same lawyer, Sean […] More

March 11, 2020

UPDATED 2/25/20 The jury reached a verdict at approximately 11:30 PM ET on Monday, Feb 24, the fifth day of deliberations. They found Harvey Weinstein guilty on two counts: Criminal sexual act in the first degree (Haleyi) – [a class B felony, 5 to 25 years] Rape in third-degree (Mann) – [a class E felony 1.5 […] More

March 11, 2020

Harvey Weinstein faces a minimum of five years and a maximum of 29 years in prison after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault in NY. More

March 11, 2020