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MIAMI — While the ex-premier of the British Virgin Islands remains locked up in Miami after being convicted of cocaine smuggling, a federal judge still cannot figure out how to resolve doubts raised by a couple of jurors about their guilty verdicts nearly two weeks ago. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said this week that she wants both sides — federal prosecutors and defense attorneys who are at loggerheads — to return to her courtroom on March 7 with a potential legal solution to the seemingly intractable problem. “From the start, this has been an unusual case in many respects,” William...
Miami Herald
The Illinois State Board of Elections rejected Wednesday a request to reconsider or lower more than $100,000 in fines levied against a political action committee that helped expand the Democratic Party’s majority on the Illinois Supreme Court. The board’s unanimous bipartisan vote followed a request by All for Justice, an independent expenditure PAC backed by Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, after it was fined $108,500 by the board last year for failing to timely file detailed expenditure reports in spending $7.3 million to help elect Elizabeth Rochford and Mary Kay O’Brien to the state’s...
Chicago Tribune
PONTIAC, Mich. — An attorney for the father of the Oxford High School shooter is arguing prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to introduce evidence about his son's mental health, his journal entries or text messages between the teen and his friend if the shooter does not testify at his dad's upcoming trial. Since the shooter is debating whether to file an appeal of his sentence and plea, he has said through his attorneys that if he is called to testify, he will assert his Fifth Amendment right to stay silent to avoid self incrimination. Ethan Crumbley also refused to waive privilege of his medical...
The Detroit News
NEW YORK — It took more than 20 years, but the eyewitnesses to Jam Master Jay’s 2002 murder pushed past their fear to take the stand about his killers — and they were clear about who they saw. That’s the argument Assistant U.S. Attorney Artie McConnell made to close out the trial of two men charged with murdering the Run-DMC icon, real name Jason Mizell, in his Queens music studio over a drug deal in 2002. “They were afraid. They didn’t want to get involved. They moved away from New York to get away,” McConnell said in his closing argument in Brooklyn Federal Court Tuesday. “I will concede tha...
New York Daily News
PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court voted 4-3 last week to uphold Philadelphia’s ordinance prohibiting the manufacturing and assembling of 3D-printed gun parts used to create “ghost guns.” The majority decision of the appellate court filed Friday said that Philadelphia’s ordinance, as amended in January 2021, did not violate the state constitution’s gun-ownership protections and a 1996 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that state lawmakers have sole authority over firearm laws, meaning that local jurisdictions, such as Philadelphia, cannot pass their own contradicting laws. The chal...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A flight attendant accused of “surreptitiously recording or attempting to record” a teen using the bathroom on an American Airlines flight last year appeared Tuesday in Boston federal court and agreed to voluntary confinement until trial. Estes Carter Thompson III, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was arrested earlier this year and charged with one count of attempted sexual exploitation of children and one count of possession of child pornography depicting a prepubescent minor. According to the charging documents, the 36-year-old suspect allegedly concealed his iPhone “on the underside of the toi...
New York Daily News
As Sam Bankman-Fried awaits sentencing next month for his role in the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the former billionaire and son of Stanford University law professors has apparently made some new friends while in federal lock-up in Brooklyn. A photo shared by crypto crime reporter Tiffany Fong shows the disgraced mogul, still with his tousled hair but sporting some new “scruff.” The 31-year-old is seen standing alongside a former inmate identified as G Lock, a former member of the Bloods, and four other inmates in Brooklyn’s infamous Metropolitan Detention Center, the Daily Ma...
The Mercury News
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A Kent County judge allowed Tuesday a lawsuit that asks the court to enforce Kristina Karamo's removal as the Michigan Republican Party chairwoman to proceed, rejecting Karamo's attempts to dismiss it. Judge J. Joseph Rossi's ruling in circuit court was a victory for Karamo's opponents within the state GOP and meant that hearings on whether an injunction against Karamo should be issued, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, can go forward. The Republican National Committee has formally recognized former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra as the Michigan GOP's chairman, but Karamo ha...
The Detroit News
Accused Jan. 6 rioter faces new charge of having child porn SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California man charged in December with taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is now facing new federal charges of receiving child pornography, officials said Tuesday. Kyle Travis Colton, 36, of Citrus Heights, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on a charge of receiving one or more images of “children engaged in sexually explicit conduct” between July 2022 and December 2023, U.S. Attorney Phil Talbert’s office said after the indictment was unsealed Tuesday morning. The charge could result in a priso...
Tribune News Service
MAGA truck drivers are threatening to boycott New York City in support of former president Donald Trump, whose hometown’s courts have ruled him liable for a history of fraud and sexual abuse. Chatter about shutting down supplies to the nation’s biggest city began Friday when trucker and influencer Chicago Ray posted an angry rant on X in which he claimed to have spoked to 10 drivers who were upset about verdicts that went against Trump in recent weeks. “You f— around and find out,” Chicago Ray said. “We’re tired of you motherf—ing leftist f—ing with Trump.” In another post, the trucker wrote, ...
New York Daily News
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