After almost four hours of listening to lawyers on both sides battle it out, a Palm Beach County judge sentence Dalia Dippolito to 16 years in prison. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley denied the request by prosecutors to exceed the 20-year sentence previously handed down to Dippolito during her 2011 trial, which ultimately got thrown …
A former Arkansas judge is scheduled to start his prison sentence on Wednesday for a 2013 bribery incident. Michael Maggio, 53, of Conway, was convicted earlier this year of taking a bribe to reduce the jury award amount against a nursing home owner in a 2013 lawsuit. In exchange, he wanted campaign contributions. Maggio pleaded guilty, …
Amid messy divorce proceedings, a Los Angeles judge blasted singer Melanie “Mel B” Brown and Stephen Belafonte for adopting an unsustainable lifestyle, according to Daily Mail. “In particular, the court notes that while the baseline is the marital standard of living status quo, where, as here, the parties lived beyond their means, the Court ought …
The defense attorney for former teacher Tad Cummins filed a motion on Thursday, asking for an extension on Cummins’ upcoming federal court trial in Tennessee. WHNT reports that Cummins, 50, wants his July 25 hearing extended to January 2018 so that his legal team will have enough time to research and prepare. The former high school …
The trial for the former Tennessee teacher accused of abducting his teen student and taking her across state lines is less than two weeks away, and the victim’s family is trying to prepare themselves for a “highly emotional” time. “It’s a highly emotional issue,” Anthony Thomas, father of abducted teen, Elizabeth Thomas, told PEOPLE. “[Going to …
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A British court has gone against the parents’ wishes and ordered that a terminally ill infant’s life support be cut off, according to The Washington Post. On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights upheld a lower court’s decision to let 10-month-old Charlie Gard die. The boy’s parents argued that new treatments were available in the …
Big cases, retirement rumors as Supreme Court nears finish
On Wednesday, prosecutors asked for an eight year sentence for a Broward County, Florida, elementary school teacher who tipped off drug dealers about an investigation, in an attempt to “get back at” her Lauderhill police detective husband, who was accused of cheating on her. CBS DFW reports that in 2013, Porsha Session, 31, thought her now …
On Day 5, Cosby jury asks for definition of reasonable doubt
Chrissie McGee Blount has filed a lawsuit against popular grocery chain Publix, after her husband, Mansur Blount, fell into a deep fryer in 2015 and burned to death. The Georgia widow has officially filed a wrongful death lawsuit, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Mansur Blount, 37, was reportedly cleaning a kitchen vent hood on June 25, 2015, …
Prominent Atlanta lawyer Tex McIver, accused in the shooting death of his wife, is allegedly using the jail telephone to influence witnesses in the murder case against him. McIver, 74, also called a judge’s wife hoping she would help him get out on bond, according to the Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor. McIver admits he pulled …
