Earlier this month, lawyers for an Ohio father who allegedly killed his three sons last year filed a motion to have his confession inadmissible in court, claiming his constitutional rights were violated. The defense asserted that Chad Doerman asked at least twice for counsel following his arrest but investigators ignored his requests. Doerman’s attorneys wrote …
A Detroit judge on Tuesday found probable cause to sent Michael Jackson-Bolanos to trial for the murder of Jewish community leader Samantha Woll last October. Jackson-Bolanos has been charged with felony murder, home invastion, and lying to a police officer. After two days of testimony, Judge Kenneth King added a charge of first-degree murder, WXYZ …
Florida death row inmate Donald Smith appeared in court this week for an evidentiary hearing, in an attempt to reverse his murder conviction, in connection with the 2013 death of Cherish Perrywinkle. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Smith was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to death for kidnapping 8-year-old Cherish from a Jacksonville Walmart. He then …
The judge overseeing Chad Daybell’s murder trial has denied his attorney’s motion to withdraw from the case, apparently agreeing with prosecutors that the motion was an attempt to delay a trial that has been in preparation since 2021. John Prior, who has been Daybell’s sole attorney since he was arrested for the murders of his …
In a recent development, a New York judge has rejected the motion to dismiss the case against Daniel Penny, a U.S. Marine indicted last year in connection with the chokehold death of a subway performer. On Wednesday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley denied Penny’s motion, which sought to dismiss charges of manslaughter and criminally …
A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced Heather Mack, who admitted conspiring with her then-boyfriend to kill her mother in Bali in 2014, to 26 years in prison. Mack, 28, was convicted in the beating death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack in Indonesia and served seven years in prison there, but US District Judge Matthew Kennelly …
Attorneys for accused University of Idaho quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger asked the court last week to unseal documents they claim prosecutors do not want public. Twice, Kohberger has sought to have his grand jury indictment dismissed. ABC News reported that defense attorneys have argued that the grand jury used the wrong standard of proof because …
Four people pleaded guilty Tuesday in an Illinois murder-for-hire plot that left a woman dead and her husband seriously injured. Rebecca and Douglas Bolin were shot on October 22, 2021, by gunmen engaged by their then-15-year-old daugther, Dahlia Bolin, who was the first to plead guilty — to first degree murder, first degree attempted murder, …
Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of a Los Angeles socialite accused of ramming into two children as she “raced” through an intersection against her retired baseball player lover three years ago. Rebecca Grossman, 60, is accused of killing Jacob and Mark Iskander, 8 and 11, on September 29, 2020, as CrimeOnline reported. Prosecuors …
A heiress who pleaded guilty to helping a former boyfriend kill her mother is scheduled to be sentenced today in Chicago, according to AP. As CrimeOnline previously reported, federal prosecutors asked for Heather Mack to receive 28 years behind bars for the role she played in the murder of her mom, 62-year-old Sheila Von Wiese-Mack, …
A South Carolina judge on Tuesday ordered the court clerk involved in Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial to testify in an upcoming hearing regarding jury tampering. Murdaugh’s legal team has accused Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill of rushing jurors to reach a guilty verdict for a book she was writing and self-publishing on …
A final pretrial hearing for Adam Montgomery’s murder charge began Tuesday morning, with the defendant refusing to appear in court. Montgomery is currently facing second-degree murder and assault charges in New Hampshire, in connection with the presumed death of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery. Over the holiday weekend, Montgomery’s defense team submitted motions that could …
