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Ghislaine Maxwell has suffered another legal blow. According to CNBC, the 60-year-old socialite lost her bid for a new trial in connection to the Jeffrey Epstein sex crime case. The news comes about three months after Maxwell was found guilty of helping Epstein recruit and groom underage girls for sexual abuse. She was ultimately convicted on five federal charges, including […]
A man has been found guilty in the 1993 rape and murder of Sophie Sergie, a 20-year-old who was found dead in a University of Alaska Fairbanks dorm. Steven Downs, 47, of Auburn, Maine—who was arrested for the crime back in 2019 through DNA evidence—was found guilty following a two-day jury deliberation in Fairbanks, per CBS News. At the […]
Elmer Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right group Oath Keepers, has been ordered to remain in jail as he awaits trial. Rhodes has remained in custody since his arrest earlier this month on sedition charges in connection with the fatal Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Per a report from the Associated Press on Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge […]
Derek Chauvin—the former Minneapolis police officer who has already been convicted of state murder and manslaughter charges in the killing of George Floyd—is expected to plead guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights. A hearing has been scheduled for Wednesday for Chauvin to change his not-guilty plea, as revealed by the court’s electronic filing system, which usually […]
The jury in the Jussie Smollett trial ended its first deliberation session without reaching verdict. Deliberations began Wednesday afternoon, following seven days of testimony centered on the actor’s alleged 2019 hate crime in Chicago. During five hours of closing arguments, prosecutors said there was “overwhelming” evidence that Smollett had staged the attack with two of his associates and filed a […]
Don Lemon is facing backlash for failing to mention his ties to Jussie Smollett, the former Empire actor who is accused of lying to police over being a victim of a hate crime in January 2019. While covering the actor’s trial Monday night on his late-night show, Don Lemon Tonight, the CNN host didn’t mention his alleged role in […]
Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, the 22-year-old accused of killing 10 people at a Colorado grocery store earlier this year, has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial by a judge. Judge Ingrid Bakke made the order after four doctors in three months deemed the man unable to stand trial, and claimed he has “deteriorated” while in jail since the March […]
Jussie Smollett’s attorney Nenye Uche delivered opening remarks Monday as his client’s trial on felony disorderly conduct charges began earlier today. “Jussie Smollett is a real victim,” Uche said, per AP News, arguing that Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo and Olabinjo “Ola” Osundairo, the brothers who allegedly attacked the Empire actor didn’t like him, and the $3,500 check they received from Smollett was […]
On the first day of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex-trafficking ring, federal prosecutors argued that the British socialite groomed teenage girls for him in “a pyramid scheme of abuse.” “She was in on it from the start,” Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz told jurors, per AP. “The defendant and Epstein lured their victims with a […]
Students at Arizona State University are planning a rally to demand the removal of Kyle Rittenhouse from studying at their school. Rittenhouse, the now-18-year-old who killed two people and shot another after carrying an AR-15 style rifle at a Kenosha protest in 2020, was found not guilty on all counts in his homicide trial earlier this […]
