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OJ Simpson sues Las Vegas casino, contends he was defamed
OJ Simpson sues Las Vegas casino, contends he was defamed

LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson is suing a Las Vegas hotel-casino that banned him in November 2017, alleging that unnamed employees defamed him by telling a celebrity news site he had been drunk, disruptive and unruly. Simpson, on parole in Nevada for a 2008 conviction for armed robbery and assault with a weapon, filed […] More

November 11, 2019

Harvey Weinstein Trial: 5 Explosive Details Revealed
Harvey Weinstein Trial: 5 Explosive Details Revealed

Manhattan prosecutors recently filed a response to several Harvey Weinstein defense motions. The defense motions included: Dismissal of the Predatory Sexual Assault counts, Suppression of evidence seized pursuant to search warrants, Reconsideration of the court allowing testimony about rape trauma syndrome and Permission for the defense to call an expert on the reliability of memory of […] More

November 8, 2019

Steve Bannon testifies for prosecution Roger Stone trial
Steve Bannon testifies for prosecution Roger Stone trial

WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, who served as chief executive of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told jurors Friday he saw Roger Stone as “an access point” to WikiLeaks, which later released hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign. Bannon appeared as a reluctant witness in Stone’s criminal trial in federal court under subpoena and […] More

November 8, 2019

Celebrities, others ask Texas to halt inmate’s execution
Celebrities, others ask Texas to halt inmate’s execution

HOUSTON (AP) — Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who is facing lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says he didn’t commit are mounting a final push in the courts and on social media to stop his execution, which is being called into question by lawmakers, pastors, celebrities and […] More

November 8, 2019

Comedian says Roger Stone pressed him to lie about contacts
Comedian says Roger Stone pressed him to lie about contacts

WASHINGTON (AP) — A comedian and former talk show host told jurors in the Roger Stone trial Friday that the political operative pressured him into backing up lies he told Congress. Randy Credico said Stone pressed him to “go along” with a false account of the operative’s contacts with WikiLeaks during the 2016 U.S. presidential […] More

November 8, 2019

A$AP Rocky returns to Sweden months after assault conviction
A$AP Rocky returns to Sweden months after assault conviction

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A$AP Rocky will perform in Sweden several months after he was convicted of assault in a street brawl. Concert promoter Live Nation says the rapper will return to Stockholm “after tremendous support from the Swedish fans.” The artist is due to perform Dec. 11 at Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe arena. A$AP Rocky, whose […] More

November 8, 2019

US court grants Ronaldo’s bid to block accuser in rape case
US court grants Ronaldo’s bid to block accuser in rape case

  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo’s lawyers won a courtroom bid Thursday to block a Nevada woman accusing the soccer superstar of raping her in Las Vegas in 2009 from digging into the validity of their 2010 confidentiality agreement and $375,000 hush-money payment. U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts told Kathryn Mayorga’s attorney that it […] More

November 8, 2019

Girlfriend testifies at trial of Colorado man in death of his fiancee
Girlfriend testifies at trial of Colorado man in death of his fiancee

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — A former nurse who says she tampered with evidence to cover up the killing of her boyfriend’s fiancee has taken the stand at his murder trial in Colorado. Krystal Lee Kenney was testifying Wednesday at the trial of 33-year-old Patrick Frazee, who has denied killing 29-year-old Kelsey Berreth. She was […] More

November 6, 2019

Court TV to Feature Exclusive Interviews with Harvey Weinstein Attorneys and Accusers in Primetime Specials Nov. 4 & 5 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT
Court TV to Feature Exclusive Interviews with Harvey Weinstein Attorneys and Accusers in Primetime Specials Nov. 4 & 5 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT

Two of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys and two of his accusers sit down for exclusive interviews with Court TV’s Seema Iyer. Court TV will re-air both interviews on Friday, November 8 at 5/4c.   Iyer’s interviews with Weinstein Attorneys Donna Rotunno and Damon Cheronis air on Monday, Nov. 4, with conversations with alleged victims […] More

November 6, 2019

Georgia woman gets life sentence for killing boyfriend’s 2-year-old daughter
Georgia woman gets life sentence for killing boyfriend’s 2-year-old daughter

DOUGLAS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia woman convicted of killing her boyfriend’s 2-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Prosecutor Ian Sansot says a Coffee County jury found Amanda Jacobs Coleman guilty of malice murder on Friday. News outlets report police responded in March 2018 to the home Coleman shared with […] More

November 6, 2019

Trial begins for Colorado man charged in fiancee’s death
Trial begins for Colorado man charged in fiancee’s death

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors said Friday that a Colorado man accused of beating his fiancee to death with a baseball bat and burning her body on his ranch consistently manipulated those around him, while the defense countered that their client had no motive and noted the woman’s body has not been found.   […] More

November 5, 2019

Parents of missing Chinese woman want custody of her child
Parents of missing Chinese woman want custody of her child

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A judge will hear arguments Monday in a dispute involving the 1-year-old daughter of a Chinese woman who has been missing for more than three weeks, with the woman’s parents and the mother-in-law of her jailed U.S. husband seeking guardianship. An attorney for Ke Ren and Xiaolin Ji, who are the […] More

November 4, 2019

The Retrial of Kellen Winslow II
The Retrial of Kellen Winslow II

Famed NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II is back in a San Diego courtroom for the government’s second attempt to try him on multiple charges. More

November 4, 2019

Man gets 18 months for defrauding homeowners association
Man gets 18 months for defrauding homeowners association

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A Marion man has been imprisoned for defrauding a homeowners association out of nearly $125,000. The Gazette reports that 55-year-old Wayne Jones Jr. was given 18 months at his sentencing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. He’d pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Prosecutors say that while Jones was treasurer of […] More

November 4, 2019

3 Tennessee teens sentenced in classmate’s party death
3 Tennessee teens sentenced in classmate’s party death

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three Tennessee teenagers have been sentenced in the death of a 15-year-old classmate. News outlets report 19-year-old Isaiah Trey Brooks was sentenced to 10 years in prison for reckless homicide in the death of Gibbs High School sophomore Zach Munday. >>More trending news A Knox County judge on Friday also sentenced […] More

November 4, 2019

Loughlin, Giannulli to fight new charges in admissions case
Loughlin, Giannulli to fight new charges in admissions case

BOSTON (AP) — “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband are contesting the latest charges against them in the college admissions scandal. Lawyers for Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli filed court documents Friday saying the couple plans to plead not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit federal program bribery. The couple also […] More

November 1, 2019

Opening statements expected in Patrick Frazee murder trial
Opening statements expected in Patrick Frazee murder trial

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Opening statements are anticipated in the trial of a Colorado man charged with killing his fiancee and burning her body on his ranch. SOURCE: KOAA, Berreth Family via CNN A jury is expected to be seated for the trial of Patrick Frazee on Friday, allowing lawyers to present their view […] More

November 1, 2019

Records show Closs kidnapper fought New Mexico inmate
Records show Closs kidnapper fought New Mexico inmate

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The man who kidnapped Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs and killed her parents got into a fight in a New Mexico prison with an inmate who asked about the case, showing how word of his crimes has spread and raising questions about whether moving him to an out-of-state lockup accomplished anything. A […] More

October 31, 2019

The Court TV Podcast Episode 10
The Court TV Podcast Episode 10

As Ezra McCandless takes the stand in her own defense, Vinnie and Seema look back at the testimony of her ex-boyfriend Jason Mengle. More

October 31, 2019

Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia captured in Kentucky
Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia captured in Kentucky

REIDSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Georgia officials say they have captured an inmate who was mistakenly released from a state prison while serving a life sentence following a rape conviction. The Georgia Department of Corrections said in a Tweet that authorities took Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez into custody Wednesday night in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The department of […] More

October 31, 2019

Doctor hired by family: Epstein injuries seem like homicide
Doctor hired by family: Epstein injuries seem like homicide

NEW YORK (AP) — A longtime forensic pathologist hired by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother says some evidence suggests Epstein died by homicidal strangulation, not suicide by hanging. Dr. Michael Baden raised concerns Wednesday on Fox News about the New York City medical examiner’s findings that ruled Epstein’s death a suicide. The autopsy report appeared to put much speculation […] More

October 30, 2019

Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse
Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury’s sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing […] More

October 30, 2019

Trial opens in lawsuit over ‘Frankenstein’ use of remains
Trial opens in lawsuit over ‘Frankenstein’ use of remains

PHOENIX (AP) — A retired FBI agent described a horrific raid of now-closed body donation facility Monday, recalling a table stacked with severed human legs, heads stuffed in a cooler, and torsos without heads and limbs. Mark Cwynar testified on the opening day of a civil trial that one torso had its head removed and […] More

October 29, 2019

Trial starts for Colorado man suspected of killing fiancee
Trial starts for Colorado man suspected of killing fiancee

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a Colorado man suspected of killing his flight instructor fiancee and burning her body on his ranch. It was expected to take several days to seat a jury to weigh the evidence against Patrick Frazee, 33, who has pleaded not guilty to […] More

October 28, 2019

Jury selection starts for suspect in fiancee burning case
Jury selection starts for suspect in fiancee burning case

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Jury selection is scheduled for a Colorado man suspected of killing his flight instructor fiancee and burning her body on his ranch. The selection starting Monday for the trial of Patrick Frazee is expected to last several days. Frazee has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of […] More

October 28, 2019

Jeers for Harvey Weinstein at NYC actors showcase
Jeers for Harvey Weinstein at NYC actors showcase

NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was mocked from the stage and jeered by attendees at a New York City actors showcase — a rare public appearance for the disgraced movie mogul ahead of his January rape trial. A comedian at Wednesday’s “Actor’s Hour” referred to Weinstein during her set as “the elephant in the […] More

October 25, 2019