Prosecutor booted from murder case after she vows she’ll never seek the death penalty
Police Chief: “The heinous crimes that he committed in our community are the very reason that we have the death penalty as an option under the law”
Police Chief: “The heinous crimes that he committed in our community are the very reason that we have the death penalty as an option under the law”
DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California woman who was drugged along with her boyfriend and then dragged from their home described the “hell that we have survived” in emotional testimony before her abductor was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a crime so elaborate and bizarre that police initially dismissed …
“I regret killing the baby but not the other”
DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of killing three women was tracked via his cellphone to locations near where at least two of the women’s bodies were discovered, according to a court document filed by prosecutors. The assertions were contained in an affidavit filed in January by an Essex County …
Prosecutors dropped three felony charges of child endangerment and conspiracy
“He didn’t deserve to die like that”
PAUL ELIAS Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The widow of the gunman who killed dozens of people at a Florida nightclub is not dangerous and will be released from jail ahead of her trial on charges of aiding the attack, a federal judge in California ruled Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu also said …
MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A sequestered jury from an outside county will decide the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby, a suburban Philadelphia judge ruled Monday, rejecting a defense request to move the trial itself because of worldwide media reports that the actor’s lawyers say brand him a “serial rapist.” Montgomery …
MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a major break for Bill Cosby, a judge ruled Friday that just one of the comedian’s multitude of other accusers can testify at his trial to bolster charges he drugged and violated a woman more than a decade ago. The 79-year-old TV star is set to go …
EMERY P. DALESIO Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Fresh from a trip to traffic court, Lester Packingham Jr. celebrated his turn of good fortune by announcing to friends on Facebook that his pending ticket was dismissed without him saying a word. “No fine. No Court costs. No nothing. Praise be to God. Wow. Thanks, …
The partner of British children’s author Helen Bailey was convicted Wednesday of killing her and dumping her body in a cesspool in a financially motivated murder.