An Illinois judge ruled Friday that cameras will be allowed to roll inside a courtroom for singer R. Kelly’s criminal trial later this month. The Chicago Tribune reported that Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood greenlit the cameras, noting that two of the four alleged victims objected to being filmed during court proceedings. However, Flood, who’s presiding …
A California mother is suing several celebrity parents at the center of the college admissions scandal for a total of $500 billion, claiming their actions robbed her overachieving son of a fair shot into college. According to Variety, Jennifer Kay Toy filed a lawsuit Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court which listed 45 people—including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman—as …
A New York court viewed surveillance footage which apparently showed a jailed Rod Covlin demonstrating a chokehold on another inmate before he was to stand trial for his wife’s strangulation death. The footage was reportedly shot in November at the Brooklyn Detention Center’s law library. According to the New York Daily News, prosecutors accused Covlin of bragging …
A New York jury heard a secret recording where an accused murderer’s parents are apparently heard evicting him from their home and chastising him for stealing money from his two children’s college funds. According to the Daily Mail, Rod Covlin had his then-girlfriend, Debra Oles, covertly record the heated 2012 exchange between him and his parents. In …
Legal experts said a botched criminal investigation might result in an acquittal for a New York man on trial for killing his estranged wife in 2009. Shele Danishefsky’s 9-year-old daughter reportedly found her mother face-down in a bathtub at their New York City apartment on New Year’s Eve. The girl alerted her father, Rod Covlin, …
A Texas judge was officially disciplined for instructing a jury to continue deliberating as God told him that the defendant—accused of sex trafficking—was innocent. The San Antonio Express-News reported that the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a public warning to Comal County Judge Jack Robison for a January 12, 2018, outburst which resulted in 18 complaints. Robison reportedly …
A South Carolina judge unloaded on a man convicted of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl and severely beating her mother during an incident in February 2018. According to WCBD, Thomas Lawton Evans Jr. was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences and U.S. District Court Judge David Norton made it clear what he thought of the someone …
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A graphic novelist who tortured and killed his fiance in 2016 must now pay her family $41.6 million, a California judge ruled. The Los Angeles Times reports that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Bobbi Tillmon delivered the ruling on Friday, after a wrongful-death lawsuit bench trial concluded. The lawsuit, filed by victim Iana Kasian’s family against author Blake Leibel, …
An Oregon mother has filed a $1.1 million lawsuit more than a year after she claims an “emotional support” pit bull mauled her 5-year-old daughter’s face at an airport. According to the lawsuit filed Monday in Multnomah County, Mirna Gonzalez accused Michelle Brannan’s dog of attacking Gabriella Gonzalez at Portland International Airport as they waited at …
Although her boss claimed a diabetic coma may have caused a New Jersey woman to crash a bus full of special needs children, prosecutors maintained during a court hearing on Wednesday that the bus driver bought and used heroin before the wreck. NJ.com reports that 57-year-old Lisa Byrd appeared in court Wednesday for a bond …
The mother of a 6-year-old West Virginia girl filed a civil lawsuit against the Berkeley County Board of Education and others, after claiming teachers and their aides emotionally abused her little girl. According to court documents filed by Charleston lawyer Ben Salango, on behalf of parent, Amber Pack, three former employees at Berkeley Heights Elementary in …
