A man on trial for a New Jersey murder admitted his guilt Tuesday, and additionally claimed responsibility for three out-of-state slayings. According to NBC News, Ali Muhammad Brown, 34, entered a surprise guilty plea in a Newark court for the June 2014 shooting death of 19-year-old college student Brendan Tevlin, who was attacked while stopped …
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby’s lawyers fought Tuesday to block a parade of women from testifying against him at his upcoming sexual assault retrial, saying the accusers are peddling “ancient allegations” that would prejudice the jury against the 80-year-old comedian. At the same time, they argued jurors should hear …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Manhattan apartment was eerily quiet, unusual for a home with three little kids. All the lights were off, except for the glow of a bathroom light. That’s where Marina Krim found her two children — covered in blood, slaughtered by the family’s trusted nanny. “It’s like …
By COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A defense lawyer says it was an act of madness. Prosecutors will begin trying to prove Thursday that it was murder. Five years ago, Yoselyn Ortega, a trusted nanny to a well-to-do family, took two young children in her care into a bathroom at their Manhattan apartment, …
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Sheriff’s investigators concluded that the 2011 hanging of a woman at a Southern California mansion was a suicide, but a civil wrongful-death lawsuit going to trial this week blames her wealthy boyfriend’s brother. The lawsuit was filed by the mother and sister of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who was the girlfriend of pharmaceuticals executive …
By JASON DEAREN, TERRY SPENCER and ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The suspect in the Florida school shooting appeared in court Monday for a procedural hearing about how legal paperwork would be handled in the case. Nikolas Cruz said nothing when he made his first in-person appearance in Broward County Circuit Court. …
Inside a Duval County courtroom on Wednesday, a jury found Donald Smith guilty of numerous felony counts, including murder, rape, and kidnapping. Smith’s trial began on Monday morning with 8-year-old Cherish Perrywinkle’s mother taking the stand and reliving the traumatic day in 2013, when Smith took her child from a Jacksonville Walmart. The little girl …
‘He looks like a harmless old man. Little did she know what lurked beneath the surface….’
Both the defense and prosecution rested on Tuesday afternoon in the case of Florida girl, Cherish Perrywinkle, who was kidnapped, beaten, raped, and killed in 2013. The suspect on trial, Donald Smith, faces the death penalty if convicted. “He tore apart. He sucked on her breast. He made her suck his penis. He left behind …
WARNING: The trial contains graphic language and subject matter.
Prosecutors say she wanted to save her relationship with her common-law husband by passing off the child as her own
By TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman will have an anonymous jury at his U.S. trial later this year. In a written order, U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan agreed with prosecutors who argued that withholding the names of jurors was needed to address any fears that …
