Actor Jussie Smollett’s Chicago trial on charges that he faked a hate crime attack on himself three years ago begins Monday with jury selection. Smollett, 39, was a star of the television show “Empire” when he claimed he was attacked on January 29, 2019, by two men who hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him …
Two Iowa teens facing murder charges want out of jail but prosecutors are pushing for their bail to increase, given the severity of the crimes. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Willard Noble Chaiden Miller and Jeremy Everett Goodale, both 16, are facing murder charges as adults for the death of 66-year-old Nohema Graber. Both teens were …
After closing arguments wrapped up on Tuesday in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case, it took jurors a day to deliberate. On Wednesday, they reached a decision. Defendants Greg and Travis McMichael, along with William Roddie Bryan have been found guilty of felony murder, false imprisonment, and aggravated assault. Travis McMichael was convicted of an additional …
The father of murdered Colorado boy Dylan Redwine has appealed his murder conviction, citing several different alleged issues that supposedly happened during his trial. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mark Redwine, the divorced father of a 13-year-old slain boy, Dylan Redwine, murdered his son in November 2012 and hid the child’s remains in the woods. Prosecutors …
Security footage shown to jurors on Tuesday, in connection to the death of a boy allegedly abused to death by his father and stepmother, shows a young boy in distress as he cried out for help. Thomas Hughes and his girlfriend, Emma Tustin, are currently on trial at the Coventry Crown Court in England, for …
A Maryland police officer raped a woman after a night of drinking in 2017, but a judge presiding over his case ruled this week that the victim didn’t suffer from “psychological injury.” Former police officer, Anthony Westerman, 27, was convicted of two counts of rape in August, along with a sexual offense and two second-degree …
An attorney defending one of the men charged with Ahmaud Arbery’s murder in Brunswick, Georgia, asked the court on Friday for a mistrial, saying a prayer vigil held by Black pastors outside the court house on Thursday was akin to a “public lynching” of the defendants. Thursday’s prayer vigil was a direct response to attorney …
The defense rested its case on Thursday, and Judge Timothy Walmsley set closing arguments for Monday.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt commuted Julius Jones’ death sentence to life in prison without parole on Thursday — four hours before the convicted killer’s scheduled execution. A statement from the governor’s office stated that Stitt granted clemency for Jones, 41, “on the condition that he shall never again be eligible to apply for, be considered for, …
A New York man pleaded guilty to raping four different girls at house parties but a judge doesn’t think that jail time would be appropriate. Christopher Belter, now 20, pleaded guilty to rape, sexual abuse, and sexual assault against four victims that occurred when he was a teenager. On Tuesday, Judge Matthew J. Murphy III …
‘This is a life-or-death situation, and I’m going to have to stop him from doing this, so I shot,’ says the man accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
