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An Alabama woman who says she was raped by Jay-Z and Sean (Diddy) Combs when she was 13 can proceed anonymously, for now, in her lawsuit against the rap moguls, a judge ruled Thursday. In her written order, Judge Analisa Torres also chastised the lawyer representing Jay-Z for what she described …
Read More »Judge allows testing of George Floyd tissue samples as officer seeks new trial on civil rights conviction
A judge has granted permission to Derek Chauvin’s lawyers to have tissue samples from George Floyd’s body examined. It’s part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his federal conviction of violating Floyd’s civil rights after he was also convicted in Floyd’s 2020 killing. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson granted the order Monday, agreeing to …
Read More »U.S. judge stops The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’s Infowars
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday stopped the parody news site the Onion from buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars website, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez rejected Jones’s claims that the auction was plagued by “collusion,” at the end of …
Read More »Judge dismisses election interference case against Donald Trump at prosecutors’ request
Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Monday, acknowledging that Trump’s return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The decision was inevitable, since longstanding U.S. …
Read More »Judge will wait until new year to decide on possible resentencing of Erik and Lyle Menendez
A judge on Monday delayed until January his decision on whether to re-sentence Erik and Lyle Menendez for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion 35 years ago, squashing their family’s hope the brothers would be released and home for the holidays. Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic said at …
Read More »State judge allows Elon Musk’s $1M US-a-day voter giveaway to continue
A Pennsylvania state judge on Monday allowed Elon Musk’s $1-million US-a-day giveaway to swing-state voters to proceed, after a surprising day of testimony in which the billionaire’s aide acknowledged his political group selected the contest’s winners. With one day to go before the tightly contested U.S. presidential election between Vice-President …
Read More »Judge upholds dismissal of Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter charge
A New Mexico judge has upheld her decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie. In a ruling Thursday, District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer stood by her July decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter …
Read More »Judge to outline facts ahead of Thursday sentencing in Coutts border blockade
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 27, 2024 8:27 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Alberta judge is set to outline the pertinent facts to be considered before the sentencing arguments begin for two men convicted of mischief and a weapons charge …
Read More »Retired Quebec judge Jacques Delisle, who pleaded guilty in wife’s shooting death, dies at 89 – Montreal
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Jacques Delisle, a retired Quebec judge who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in his wife’s shooting death, has died at age 89. The Court of Appeal of Quebec issued a statement Monday confirming the death of Delisle, who had presided on the province’s …
Read More »‘Monstrous’: Judge scolds man guilty of killing ‘defenseless little old lady’ – Halifax
A Nova Scotia judge scolded a man responsible for the “monstrous and evil” murder of an 84-year-old woman in 2020 when handing down his sentence Thursday. Justice James L. Chipman said in his Aug. 1 written decision that 66-year-old Richard Willis committed a “predatory and disturbing crime” when he killed …
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