Former Central Falls Man Found Guilty of Child Molestation (State of Rhode...
(Source: State of Rhode Island) Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that today, Jose Colon (age 42), formerly of Central Falls, was found guilty of first degree...
View ArticleKansas judge gives Jewish site shooter death penalty
A judge on Tuesday followed a jury’s recommendation and sentenced an avowed anti-Semite to death for the fatal shootings of three people at Kansas Jewish sites. Johnson County District Judge Thomas...
View ArticleConvicted child molester Jerry Sandusky gets Penn State pension back, court says
Convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky gets his Penn State pension back, a court says. The Associated Press reported on Nov. 13, that the state must restore pension funds to former PSU assistant...
View ArticleFormer restaurant owner asks judges to throw out conviction
The attorney for former restaurant owner Eva Christian — who has already served more than three years of a nine-year prison sentence — filed new documents with the Ohio Second District Court of Appeals...
View ArticleAppeals court upholds conviction of Borizov for arranging triple murder in...
After a jury found him guilty in 2013 of arranging the murders of his ex-girlfriend’s family, Johnny Borizov was sentenced to three consecutive life terms. On Friday, an appellate court upheld the...
View ArticlePenn State's Sandusky wins partial victory in bid for child-sex retrial
By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - A state judge on Thursday ordered Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to turn over any documents she holds that might suggest the victims of convicted...
View ArticleTeacher held ‘mock trial’ and assaulted pupil, court told
A school teacher made a young boy stand inside a make shift “dock” where he indecently assaulted him at the top of the classroom, a court has heard. The evidence was heard at Limerick Circuit Court in...
View ArticleWitness in trial of man charged with killing his pregnant wife 30 years ago...
Prosecutors took their first steps Tuesday in an attempt to show that Margaret “Meg” Purk was not suicidal when she died in 1985. Her death, at age 24, originally was ruled a suicide by hanging,...
View ArticleFormer Central Falls man found guilty of child molestation
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Kent Superior Court Jury has returned a guilty verdict in the first degree child molestation trial of a former Central Falls man. The state proved during the 11-day trial, at...
View ArticleHoltzclaw accuser testifies she didn't think anyone would listen because...
By Kyle Schwab November 12, 2015 0 shares A third accuser in the sex crimes case against a fired Oklahoma City police officer told jurors Thursday, "I didn't think anyone would believe me. I'm a black...
View ArticleState ordered to restore Jerry Sandusky's $4,900-a-month pension
The state must restore the $4,900-a-month pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky that was taken away three years ago when he was sentenced to decades in prison on child...
View ArticleWitness says murder defendant in 1985 case turned pale, “speechless” when...
Summit County authorities decided to exhume the body of Margaret Purk four years ago after discussions with the detective leading the investigation of her death. It was done in September 2011, but in...
View ArticleMan convicted in Jewish site killings is sentenced to death
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) - A judge followed a jury's recommendation and sentenced an avowed anti-Semite to death Tuesday for the fatal shootings of three people at Kansas Jewish sites. Johnson County District...
View ArticleAustralia's first female genital mutilation trial: how a bright young girl...
Three people have been convicted of FGM in a landmark trial in Australia. It was a complex case in which medical evidence was inconclusive, which meant the outcome turning on phone tapping – and also...
View ArticleLawyer asks judges to throw out Sturgeon memo leak case
Bulk of evidence alleging that former Scotland secretary Alistair Carmichael lied to protect his election chances is ‘irrelevant’, his lawyer argues...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: New developments in the trial against Leyla and Arif Yunus and...
(Source: OMCT - World Organisation Against Torture) Azerbaijan: New developments in the trial against Leyla and Arif Yunus and potential acts of ill-treatment against Leyla Yunus URGENT APPEAL - THE...
View ArticleGiven graphic Holder photos, how did Greg Hardy get off?
The photographs of a scratched and bruised Nicole Holder released online this month resurrected a debate that had laid dormant around Charlotte for months: How could Greg Hardy have walked? He walked...
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Measure of restraint against Mr. Arif Yunusov changed from...
(Source: OMCT - World Organisation Against Torture) Azerbaijan: Measure of restraint against Mr. Arif Yunusov changed from detention to conditional release for the period of appeal URGENT APPEAL - THE...
View ArticleChild-Abuser will Serve 64-Year Sentence after High Court Denies Bad-Lawyer...
(Source: Lancaster County, PA) A Lancaster man serving decades in prison for sexual abuse of a child continues his argument that he was innocent. The Pennsylvania Superior Court will no longer hear it....
View ArticleProsecutors planning 3rd trial of Alabama police officer
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A federal prosecutor said Friday that he plans to pursue a third trial of an Alabama police officer accused of using excessive force on an Indian man if a judge doesn't...
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