Chanley Painter
Legal Correspondent Chanley Painter is an attorney and award-winning journalist at Court TV. For more than three years, she has led Court TV’s live trial coverage, traveling across the US to report on historic trials, such as the Derek Chauvin trial, the Robert Durst trial and most recently, the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial. Chanley hails from Arkansas, where she earned two professional degrees, graduating both with the highest honors, before passing two state bar exams simultaneously. Chanley studied law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, earning a coveted spot on the prestigious Law Review Editorial Board. She also earned a Master’s in Public Service degree from the Clinton School of Public Service. She is a former deputy prosecutor and is licensed in Arkansas and Tennessee. She began her television career as a legal analyst for NBC in Little Rock, AR.
A SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED ON THE EVE OF A SECOND TRIAL PITTING THE KARDASHIAN FAMILY AGAINST FORMER REALITY TV STAR BLAC CHYNA….MULTIPLE POLICE OFFICERS ARMED WITH RIFLES AND AT LEAST ONE BALLISTIC SHIELD STOOD AND WAITED IN A SCHOOL HALLWAY FOR NEARLY AN HOUR WHILE A GUNMAN CARRIED OUT A MASSACRE OF 19 ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AND TWO TEACHERS, ACCORDING TO A NEWS REPORT THAT MARKS THE LATEST EMBARRASSING REVELATION ABOUT THE FAILURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT TO THWART THE ATTACK….A WOMAN TESTIFIED THAT SHE UNWITTINGLY DROVE THE MAN NOW CHARGED WITH KILLING RAPPER NIPSEY HUSSLE TO AND FROM THE SCENE OF THE SHOOTING, NOT ACCEPTING THAT HE HAD FIRED THE DEADLY SHOTS DESPITE SEEING HIM LOAD A GUN MOMENTS BEFORE….WNBA STAR BRITTNEY GRINER TRIED TO CALL HER WIFE NEARLY A DOZEN TIMES THROUGH THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN RUSSIA ON THE COUPLE’S FOURTH ANNIVERSARY SATURDAY, BUT THEY NEVER CONNECTED SINCE THE PHONE LINE AT THE EMBASSY WAS NOT STAFFED, CHERELLE GRINER SAID….TWO FLORIDA DEPUTIES HAVE EACH BEEN SUSPENDED FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS FOR LEAKING NEWS ABOUT ACTOR AND COMEDIAN BOB SAGET’S DEATH BEFORE HIS FAMILY WAS ALERTED….VINCE MCMAHON IS STEPPING DOWN AS CEO AND CHAIRMAN OF WWE DURING AN INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGED MISCONDUCT INVOLVING THE LONGTIME LEADER AND PUBLIC FACE OF THE ORGANIZATION….DARRELL BROOKS, THE MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING SIX AND INJURING DOZENS MORE IN THE WAUKESHA CHRISTMAS PARADE IN WISCONSIN, WILL STAND TRIAL THIS OCTOBER. THE JUDGE DENIED A CHANGE OF VENUE REQUEST….THREE FORMER FRATERNITY MEMBERS WERE SENTENCED TO JAIL FOR THEIR ROLES IN THE HAZING DEATH OF A BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT, WHILE TWO OTHERS WERE ORDERED TO SERVE HOUSE ARREST….A CONCERT BY JOHN HINCKLEY JR., WHO SHOT AND WOUNDED PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN IN 1981, HAS BEEN CANCELED EVEN AS HINCKLEY WAS FREED FROM FEDERAL COURT OVERSIGHT, THE NEW YORK CITY VENUE THAT HAD BOOKED THE PERFORMANCE ANNOUNCED….LAWYERS FOR BRITISH SOCIALITE GHISLAINE MAXWELL, CALLING FOR LENIENCE, TOLD A JUDGE THAT SHE SHOULD FACE NO MORE THAN FOUR TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON FOR HER SEX TRAFFICKING CONVICTION AND ROLE IN FINANCIER JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S DECADE-LONG SEX ABUSE OF TEENAGE GIRLS….
