More than 90 women and girls who were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar have filed claims against the FBI seeking upwards of $1 billion, alleging that the federal law enforcement agency failed to protect them, ESPN reports. Many of the claimants allege that they were subjected to abuse by Nassar after the FBI …
A Texas woman who was arrested on capital murder charges for last year’s death of her 7-month-old son was sentenced to probation after accepting a plea deal. Johnnette Dukes was 19 when her son died in May 2021. The infant was found unresponsive in a laundry basket under a pile of clothes, according to KVIA. …
And now her attorney says she can’t afford to pay Johnny Depp the $8.35 million in damages he won.
An Indiana teen charged with molesting and killing a 6-year-old girl in March 2021 will undergo psychiatric examinations to determine if he is competent to stand trial. Anthony Hutchens, who was 14 at the time, reportedly told police that “a shadowy man” made him strangle Grace Ross. Ross was reported missing from her New Carlisle …
The man who shot then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981 is “no longer a danger to himself or others” and will be granted an unconditional release from court oversight this month, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. John Hinckley Jr. has lived in Virginia since 2016, when he was given permission to live with his mother …
Dan Markel’s ex-brother-in-law will be the next to go on trial in his murder.
The Amber Heard-Johnny Depp defamation dispute is now in the hands of the jury, although the jurors wrapped up deliberations Friday evening and headed home for a long weekend. The questions at issue are whether Heard’s 2018 op-ed in the Washington Post defamed ex-husband Depp, and whether Adam Waldman, an attorney who represented Depp at …
The trial of cult mom Lori Vallow Daybell will be delayed until January so she can be tried alongside her husband Chad Daybell, an Idaho judge said Thursday in a 12-page ruling. “This is a death penalty case. The discovery volume is extraordinary. Defendant’s defense team has only recently been fully assembled and has expressed …
An Oregon jury on Wednesday found self-published romance novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy guilty of killing her husband, a chef at the Oregon Culinary Institute, in 2018. Crampton-Brophy, 71, faces 25 years to life in prison after the conviction on a second degree murder charge. Sentencing is set for June 13, KOIN reported. Closing arguments were delivered …
