Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein rolled into a Manhattan court in a wheelchair Wednesday as prosecutors said they may have more claims of sexual misconduct before his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. An appeals court overturned Weinstein’s 2020 conviction, which sent him to prison for 23 years, in April, as CrimeOnline reported. The …
A California judge has denied all but one request for new DNA testing from convicted murderer Scott Peterson’s new defense team on Wednesday. Peterson was convicted and sentenced to death in 2004 for the murders of his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child, as CrimeOnline reported. He was initially sentenced to death but got …
Jurors will begin deliberating in New York on Wednesday to determine whether Donald Trump falsified business records to cover payments for the silence of an adult film actress about a sexual encounter. While the national media has incessantly called it a “hush money trial,” the payment the former president made to Stephanie Clifford, who performs …
One of six people charged with kidnapping and killing a Utah woman in 2021 has pleaded guilty and implicated his co-defendants. Charging documents say Conzuelo “Nicole” Solorio-Romero, 25, was taken forcibly from her home in Kearns on February 6, 2021, by Orlando Esiesa Tobar, 29, and Jorge Rafael Medina-Reyes, 21, KUTV reported. She was taken …
The father of a 6-year-old Arizona boy who weighed just 18 pounds when he died was found guilty this week of murder and other charges related to the boy’s death. The Coconino County jury also found 28-year-old Anthony Martinez guilty of first degree murder, child abuse, kidnapping, and aggravated assault on law enforcement officers, KNXV …
Four people have been sentenced for the catfishing murder of a Michigan woman who was found shot to death in an abandoned juvenile detention facility last year. Steven Douglas Bails was found guilty of first degree murder in March for the death of Kayla Sedoskey, his ex-girlfriend, WDIV reported. He has been sentenced to life …
Texas prosecutors are letting a 22-year-old man — accused of kidnapping a woman he met on a dating app and beating and raping her for a for five days — go free in a plea deal that could also expunge his record. Harris County Criminal Court Judge Genesis Draper approved the deal, and Zachary Kent …
Accused University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger appeared in court on Thursday for a pretrial hearing which also included testimony from a police detective who worked on the case. The Independent reported that Kohberger’s attorneys were calling on a witness as part of their motion to compel prosecutors to turn over evidence — …
The parents of school shooter Ethan Crumbley have refused his request to disclose documents his attorneys say would help him appeal his life sentence. Crumbley was 15 when he opened fire at Michigan’s Oxford High School in 2021, killing four classmates — Madisyn Baldwin, 17; Tate Myre, 16; Hana St. Juliana, 14; and Justin Shilling, …
A Texas judge has reportedly been absent from the courtroom weeks after she convicted a man of killing his girlfriend’s son in 2020. Amanda Cain, Administrative Office of the District Courts’ communications director, told KTRK that 178th District Court Judge Kelli Johnson is away for “personal matters.” The news outlet reported that Johnson has been …
The bodies of two Kansas women who disappeared in late March while on their way to Oklahoma were found in a chest freezer buried on property leased by one of the suspects in their murders. Newly released court documents provide the new information, KFOR reported, although the documents say nothing new about the deaths of …
