Lawyer for suspect in Charlie Kirk killing wants more time to review ‘voluminous’ evidence
A Kentucky woman charged with concealing her newborn baby’s death appeared in court as her case was given to a grand jury. Laken Snelling, 21, waived her right to a preliminary hearing, meaning the case against her will go directly to a grand jury. WKYT reported that Friday’s hearing lasted 35 seconds. On August 27, …
On Monday, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawyers asked a New York federal judge to sentence Combs early to 14 months, facilitating his immediate release. Combs’ attorneys wrote that Combs had to fire 100 employees from his businesses, and that many of them have had trouble finding new jobs due to their ties to him. His lawyers …
A New York judge ruled that accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann will face a single trial for all seven murders he is accused of. Judge Timothy Mazzei made the ruling Tuesday, according to ABC 7 New York. The decision comes after Heuermann’s attorneys pushed to have the murders broken up into multiple cases, …
The lawyers for accused killer Luigi Mangione filed to have the possibility of the death penalty removed. NBC News reports that on Friday, Mangione’s lawyers filed a 114-page motion requesting that federal prosecutors not be allowed to pursue the death penalty and that the charges against their client be dismissed. Mangione’s lawyers claim in the …
Florida matriarch Donna Adelon, convicted of murder earlier month, is seeking a new trial. According to AP News, Adelson’s lawyers claimed juror misconduct happened after the 75-year-old’s murder trial in Tallahassee. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Adelson becomes the fifth person convicted in the murder of Florida State University law professor Dan Markel, who was in …
A Texas woman who fled to India while police investigated the disappearance of her 6-year-old son was indicted this week on new charges. Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, captured in India last month and brought back to Texas to face a murder charge in the presumed death of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, was indicted Monday on charges of abandoning a …
The parents of missing baby Emmanuel Haro were in court on Thursday to enter not guilty pleas to murder charges. An attorney for Rebecca Haro suggested moving the case to the Banning Justice Center rather Riverside, about 40 miles away, the Press-Enterprise reported. Superior Court Judge Gary Polk told him to file a motion making …
A Colorado judge on Tuesday denied a request from accused wife killer Barry Morphew to lower his bond from $3 million to $500,000, but she did change the requirements of the bond to make it slightly easier for him to get out of jail until his trial. District Court Judge Amanda Hopkins changed Morphew’s bond …
On Monday, a New York federal judge denied the government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said disseminating these documents would require “special circumstances,” as doing so would strip the secrecy that is paramount to grand jury hearings. Engelmayer expressed …
An Oklahoma pediatrician accused of killing her 4-year-old daughter on a Florida vacation had her charges downgraded on Thursday. Neha Gupta faces a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child and is now eligible for bond, KOCO reported. “We believe that the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office rushed to judgment, went out to Oklahoma, with U.S. Marshals, …
The first of three men convicted in connection with the murder of Kentucky mom Crystal Rogers in 2015 was sentenced on Wednesday to 17 years in prison. Lawson was convicted in May of conspiracy to commit murder and tampering with physical evidence, and Nelson County Circuit Court Judge Charles Simms III followed the jury’s recommendation …