Homeless man convicted of killing LA woman in furniture store
A homeless man accused of stabbing to death a UCLA student who worked at a boutique furniture store was found guilty Tuesday. A Los Angeles County jury has found Shawn LaValle Smith, 34, guilty of the brutal murder of Brianna Kupfer. The jury also found Smith guilty of the special circumstance of murder during an […]
Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Convicted of Rape on Appeal
A Swiss appeals court on Tuesday convicted Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of raping and sexually forcing a woman into a Geneva hotel 15 years ago, overturning a lower court's acquittal last year. AFP Reports The court said it “set aside the verdict of May 24, 2023” and sentenced the former Oxford University professor to three […]
Chicago man wrongfully convicted for murder awarded $50M after suing city, police detectives
A federal jury on Monday awarded $50 million in damages to a man who spent 10 years in prison after being convicted of a murder he did not commit in a lawsuit against the city of Chicago and two Chicago Police Department detectives. Marcel Brown, who was wrongfully convicted in 2011 and sentenced to 35 […]
Illegal immigrant convicted of rape arrested
Immigration authorities in Baltimore, Maryland, have arrested a record 153 illegal immigrant sex offenders this fiscal year, the most recent being a Honduran man who had been deported from the United States after being convicted of raping a Maryland resident. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Deportation Operations Division announced last week that […]
Why is America so slow to exonerate the wrongly convicted?
As the old saying goes, the wheels of justice turn slowly but with great precision, but as the civil rights activist Rev. Benjamin Chavis told me nearly 50 years ago, “the wheels seldom turn in the opposite direction.” At the time, I was covering Chavis' post-conviction trial for The New York Times. Wilmington TenChavis's criminal […]
Judge attacked by convicted felon in court chokes back tears, says she feared for her life as he pleads guilty
A Las Vegas judge who was attacked and viciously attacked by a convicted felon during his sentencing hearing in January fought back tears in court Thursday as he said he thought he was going to die. Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus grew emotional, removing her glasses and wiping away tears, during the […]
Alabama sets execution date for convicted ax murderer Derrick Dearman
A convicted murderer who killed five people with an axe will be executed by lethal injection in Alabama, the state's governor announced Tuesday, making him the fifth inmate to be executed in the state this year. Derrick Dearman, 35, was convicted of killing five friends and family members of his then-girlfriend, including a pregnant woman […]
Controversial bill that would have freed convicted felons serving life sentences stalls
A controversial California bill that would free some convicted felons serving life sentences has stalled in the Legislature and is not expected to move forward. SB 94, authored by California State Senator Dave Cortese, would give certain people serving life sentences for crimes committed before June 5, 1990, the opportunity to petition for a review […]
Ex-Nevada politician Robert Telles convicted of investigative journalist's murder
A Nevada jury convicted former county employee Robert Tellez on Wednesday of the 2022 murder of a Las Vegas journalist who wrote an article critical of the former politician. According to the Associated Press, jurors deliberated for nearly 12 hours after hearing evidence in the trial connected to the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal […]
Convicted Kidnapper, Pedophile Could Be Released from Life Sentence Under California Law
A convicted pedophile who kidnapped and sexually assaulted his friend’s 5-year-old daughter may be freed from a 350-year prison sentence under a recent change in California law. Charles William Mix was 47 when he committed the horrific crime in 2003, smuggling the girl in a stolen vehicle hundreds of miles from his family home in […]