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November 6, 2021

Andrew Cuomo’s Groping Case Delayed Over Sheriff’s ‘Potentially Defective’ Complaint

The forcible touching case against former New York Gov Andrew Cuomo was adjourned until January at the request of the Albany County district attorney, who said errors in the sheriff’s department complaint risk “a procedural dismissal of this case.” District Attorney David Soares said in a letter to City Court Judge Holly Trexler his office …

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November 5, 2021

WATCH LIVE: Opening Statements Begin in Ahmaud Arbery Murder Trial

A Georgia jury began hearing opening statements on Friday, in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old who lost his life while jogging in a Brunswick neighborhood last year. As CrimeOnline previously reported, in June 2020, Judge Wallace E. Harrell of Glynn County Magistrate Court ruled that enough probable cause exists to uphold …

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November 4, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse Trial: Juror Dismissed for Joking About Police Shooting That Left Jacob Blake Paralyzed

On Thursday, a juror was dismissed from the Kyle Rittenhouse trial for allegedly joking about last year’s police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake, which prompted the protests in Wisconsin where Rittenhouse fatally shot two demonstrators. According to WBBM, prosecutors said the dismissed juror jokingly asked the courthouse deputy, “Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake …

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October 30, 2021

Parents’ Lawsuit for ‘Suicide’ of Teacher Found Stabbed 20 Times Moves Forward

A Philadelphia judge last week ruled that a lawsuit filed by the family of Ellen Greenberg against the medical examiner who ruled she died by suicide — with 20 stab wounds to her body — can go forward. The 27-year-old first grade teacher was found dead in her Manayunk apartment on January 26, 2011, after …

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October 26, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse: Slain Protesters Can’t Be Called ‘Victims’ at Trial, But ‘Looters’ & ‘Rioters’ Are Fair Game

A Wisconsin judge ruled on Monday that the three protestors Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly shot last year cannot be called “victims.” Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder also denied Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger’s request to bar the defense from describing the two slain men, Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and Gaige Grosskreutz, who …

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October 17, 2021

Trial for 3 Men Accused in Murder of Ahmaud Arbery To Begin in Coastal Georgia

Jury selection begins Monday for the trial of three men accused of following and killing a Black jogger who ran through their coastal Georgia neighborhood in February 2020. Some 600 people are expected at the Selden Park Recreation Center in Brunswick — where jury selection has been moved to accommodate social distancing —  as attorneys …

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October 14, 2021

BREAKING: Parkland School Shooter To Plead Guilty

Nikolas Cruz, charged in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is expected to plead guilty to all counts against him. Cruz, now 23, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder for the February 14, 2018, shooting. WSVN reported that Cruz’s attorneys …