For the first time since his arrest in 2017 for the murder of Georgia teacher Tara Grinstead, suspect Ryan Alexander Duke is asking for $10,000 bond to get out of jail, and he apparently claims it’s because his alleged accomplice, Bo Dukes, is on the run from police. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Duke’s lawyer, Asleigh Merchant, …
On Friday, a Philadelphia judge reinstated appeal rights to Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther who has been imprisoned since 1982 for fatally shooting an officer. According to WHYY, Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Leon Tucker agreed with Abu-Jamal’s lawyers that Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Ronald Castille shouldn’t have presided over the 64-year-old’s multiple appeals. Castille was a …
A Florida couple has sued a Vermont-based gynecologist, alleging he used his own sperm during an insemination procedure that resulted in him fathering their child. Per the Rutland Herald, Cheryl and Peter Rousseau accused Dr. John Boyd Coates III of switching out sperm provided by an unnamed medical student resembling Peter and using his own instead. …
The family of slain Florida woman Carla Stefaniak filed a lawsuit against Airbnb and property owners at a Costa Rican village after she was killed at while vacationing there. People reports that according to a lawsuit filed at the Hillsborough County Court on Thursday, bad reviews and comments associated with Villa le Mas, in San Antonio de …
A man who reportedly fell down a flight of stairs at a New York City bar during SantaCon was recently told by the judge that the coma he found himself in was his own fault. Per the New York Post, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe dismissed a personal injury suit brought forth by Christopher Visone, …
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge declined to dismiss sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein Thursday, rejecting the latest push from the disgraced film producer’s lawyers to have his indictment thrown out. Judge James Burke’s ruling buoyed a prosecution that has appeared on rocky ground in recent months amid a prolonged defense effort …
An Iowa prosecutor allegedly came to court drunk for the second time in three months—an ordeal that recently led a judge to dismiss the state’s case against a man who admitted to sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy. According to the Des Moines Register, Clarke County attorney Michelle Rivera, 42, was arrested Friday on suspicion of operating while …
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A former officer who investigated the murder of slain Wisconsin woman Teresa Halbach filed a lawsuit against Netflix and “Making a Murderer” filmmakers, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, on Monday, claiming aspects of the popular docu-series are false and defamatory. According to court documents obtained by WBAY Action 2 News, Andrew Colborn, who retired from Manitowoc County police force in March, …
A Georgia man was sentenced on Monday after burying his deceased friend in a shallow backyard grave in 2014, leaving him there for three years before authorities found his remains. James Bradshaw Clement, 33, took an Alford plea in connection with death of 26-year-old Chase Massner. Clement was found guilty of concealing the death of …
More than a year after an intoxicated 19-year-old girl was found dead in the walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Chicago, her family has filed a negligence suit for $50 million against the hotel. As the U.K. Daily Mail reported, the suit was filed on Tuesday and introduces new allegations stemming from an …
A Texas woman will spend 40 years of her life inside a prison after she left her two young children to die last year in a hot car, according to Hill County Breaking News. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Brynn Hawkins, 1, and Addyson Overgard-Eddy, 2, died in 2017 at University Hospital in San Antonio, of heat …
