A West Virginia Circuit Court judge is under investigation by the state’s Judicial Investigation Division after allegedly pulling a .45 pistol from beneath his robe, waving it at attorneys, and leaving it on the bench for the remainder of the hearing in a New Martinsville courtroom earlier this year. While Circuit Judge David W. Hummel …
A South Carolina man accused of raping multiple teen girls and visiting the gravesite of one of his victims after she killed herself is back behind bars. According to WIS News, Orangeburg County Court Judge Roger Young revoked 19-year-old Bowen Turner’s bond, ordered him to jail, and ordered him to register as a sex offender. …
On Wednesday, a Virginia judge denied Amber Heard’s request have the defamation trial — which resulted in her being ordered to pay $10.35 million to ex-husband Johnny Depp — deemed a mistrial on the grounds that the court seated the wrong juror. In a motion filed on Friday, Heard’s legal team alleged that a 77-year-old …
A drug cartel must pay $4.6 billion to American families whose loved ones were murdered in a 2019 attack in Mexico, the Bismarck Tribune reports. U.S. Magistrate Judge Clare Hochhalter ruled that the Juarez cartel must pay the families of nine women and children whom cartel members gunned down and burned to death. The cartel …
Last month, a Texas homeowner’s association filed a lawsuit against a couple, claiming they have caused a nuisance by feeding ducks. George and Kathleen Rowe, 65, would feed the ducks at a waterway across the street from their home in Bridgeland. However, on June 11, the Lakeland Village Community Association’s sought an injunction to permanently …
Jen Shah, known for her role in “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges of organizing a $5 million scheme that targeted vulnerable people. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Shah was arrested in March 2021 for a telemarketing scam that affected hundreds of elderly people. In court Monday at the Manhattan …
A Missouri man convicted in April in the brutal 2019 beating death of his pregnant wife was sentenced to life in prison without parole last week. Jennifer Rothwell, who was six weeks pregnant when she was killed, had looked up “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant” on her phone shortly …
Amber Heard’s legal team is asking for a new trial because a person not called to jury duty was inadvertently seated on the jury, but CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says the move “stinks of desperation” and won’t work. At issue is a 52-year-old man who responded to a jury summons for the defamation suits Heard and …
A new report finds that the California “House of Horrors” siblings who were abused and imprisoned by their parents were later failed by social services agencies and government officials, according to ABC News The 630-page report found that some of the rescued children were placed with other abusive caregivers, while authorities also failed to distribute …
A Wisconsin woman accused of strangling a lover and then dismembering his body earlier this year pleaded not guilty in court on Tuesday. Taylor Schabusiness, 24, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault when she was arrested on February 23, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Police say Schabusiness told them …
Attorneys for Amber Heard filed a 43-page motion last week asking a judge to throw out a jury’s judgement that she defamed ex-husband Johnny Depp in a 2018 op-ed alleging she was the victim of domestic abuse. The Virginia jury decided after a lengthy trial that Heard and Depp defamed each other but awarded the …
The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday granted a new trial for Atlanta lawyer Claud “Tex” McIver, who was convicted of murder in the shooting death of his wife in 2016. The court ruled unanimously that the jury should have been allowed to consider a lesser charge — involuntary manslaughter, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Justice …
