Former attorney Cory Fleming was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for helping his longtime friend Alex Murdaugh siphon millions of dollars from Murdaugh’s clients and former law firm. Fleming is already serving 46 months in federal court on similar charges, but Judge Clifton Newman decided that wasn’t nearly enough and gave Fleming …
Accused Delphi killer Richard Allen wants cameras in the courtroom, according to a motion filed Wednesday at the Carroll County Circuit Court in Indiana. The Journal & Courier reports that Allen’s defense lawyers filed a motion Wednesday in Delphi, seeking “news cameras and public broadcastings” inside the court for the pretrial hearings and the trial. …
Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh’s attorneys tried to persuade a South Carolina judge to delay the disbarred attorney’s multiple financial fraud trials but failed to convince Judge Clifton Newman of the necessity. Newman set the first of the trials for November 27 in Beaufort County, the case relating to Murdaugh’s siphoning of a $4.3 million settlement …
Joran van der Sloot, the suspected killer in the Natalee Holloway case, has been granted an extension in connection with fraud and extortion charges in Alabama. On Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Gray Borden allowed an extension, marking the second extension requested by van der Sloot, Al.com reports. “Given the defendant’s need to adequately prepare his …
Accused college murderer Bryan Kohberger goes to court Wednesday as Judge John Judge hears testimony on the defense’s motion to ban cameras from the courtroom and opposition to that motion from multiple media outlets. Prosecutors in the case have already filed in support of the defense motion, although for different reasons, as CrimeOnline reported. While …
Prosecutors in the murder trial of Bryan Kohberger, charged with killing four University of Idaho students last fall in their off-campus rental, responded positively this week to the defense motion to bar cameras from the court room. But rather than a 7-page motion complaining that amateur criminologists focused on the 28-year-old suspect’s crotch, Latah County …
A federal judge ruled late Friday that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows failed to meet the requirements to move his racketeering case from a Georgia state court to federal court. Meadows and several other of the 19 co-defendeants in the Georgia case filed to move their cases to federal court, claiming their …
Prosecutors argued against a bond reduction last month for the 17-year-old accused in the rape of Louisiana State University sophomore Madison Brooks last January, showing video snippets in court they say show the rape. Brooks, 19, was struck by a car and killed after the incident, when the four men — who met her at …
South Carolina authorities announced on Thursday that they are investigating allegations by Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys that a court clerk committed jury tampering during the disbarred lawyer’s murder trial. In a joint statement to Greenville News, the S.C. Attorney General’s Office and the S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) said Attorney General Alan Wilson requested SLED …
Lori Vallow Daybell, convicted of murder and conspiracy to murder in the deaths of two of her children and her fifth husband’s first wife, filed notice last week to appeal the verdict and sentence. Jim Archibald, attorney for the so-called “cult mom,” filed the notice on Thursday, citing 16 issues in the trial and indicating …
Attorneys representing jailed South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh held a press conference on Tuesday, on the heels of filing a motion to get Murdaugh a new trial for the murders of his wife and son. According to The Independent, Dick Harpootlian and Jim Griffin claimed that jurors have spoken out after South Carolina Clerk of …
