ORLANDO, Fla. – EXCLUSIVE — A high-profile defense attorney for disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh believes jurors were deaf to “very, very strong” evidence in favor of his innocence after sitting through weeks of damning testimony on unrelated fraud, theft and grift. “That jury had heard almost three weeks …
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WARNING: SOME DETAILS MAY BE DISTURBING Former senior CNN producer John Griffin on Tuesdaysettled a lawsuit brought on behalf of a 9-year-old girl he had sexually abused at his vacation home in Vermont. Griffin, 46, was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison in June in U.S. District Court …
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Jameelah Elena Michl, the homeless woman accused of killing Los Angeles movie marketer and social justice activist Michael Latt in his home, allegedly warned she had a gun and would use it earlier this year, according to court documents. “My Glock is loaded as I write this,” the 36-year-old wrote …
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An Idaho man who led police on a two-day manhunt last week is now in custody and formally charged with murdering his wife and their unborn baby. During a virtual hearing on Monday, 48-year-old Jeremy Best appeared to flash a “rock on” hand sign into his camera after a Teton …
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A California inmate has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly tried to kill another inmate convicted in the murder of Kristin Smart, according to officials. According to a release from the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office, Jason Richard Budrow, 43, was charged on counts involving crimes by a …
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A lawyer for the parents of slain travel blogger Gabby Petito has withdrawn his request for the court to order her suspected killer’s lawyer to break attorney-client privilege and testify about what his client told him after her death and before the public knew she was missing. The motion would …
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The chief of police in an Idaho college town rocked by Bryan Kohberger’s deadly home invasion stabbings is pushing back on reports that a surviving roommate overheard the killer referring to one of the victims by name. The clarification comes amid reports that surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen overheard Kohberger mention …
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Perhaps it started with the O.J. Simpson case, or, as I prefer to call it, the Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman case. That distinction matters, because the victims and their families were erased in the spectacle. Despite the nation’s obsession with every gruesome detail, there was no “justice” for them. …
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Just days after prosecutors added his sister, Amanda Kohberger, to their witness list, Bryan Kohberger agreed to a plea deal, abruptly ending the case before it could go to trial, new court filings reveal. Newly unsealed court documents show that Amanda Kohberger appeared on the state’s amended witness list and …
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A judge in Idaho has blocked the release of graphic images from the home where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students. Second District Judge Megan Marshall issued the ruling Wednesday, writing that graphic images which include blood and any of the victims’ bodies will not be released by law enforcement …
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