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Judge: In This ICE Case, Issues 'Jumped Out at Me Immediately'

Charges tossed for Chicago's 'Broadview 6,' including ex-congressional candidate Abughazaleh

(Newser) - A Chicago protest case that turned into a test of how far prosecutors could go against anti-ICE activists has collapsed under its own handling. A federal judge on Thursday threw out all remaining charges against a group known as the "Broadview Six," saying prosecutors crossed multiple lines in...

SPLC Pleads Not Guilty in Federal Fraud Case

Civil rights nonprofit faces 11-count federal indictment

(Newser) - The Southern Poverty Law Center entered a not guilty plea Thursday in a federal court in Alabama to charges of fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering tied to its former informant program. A federal grand jury last month returned an 11-count indictment against the Montgomery-based civil rights group. Interim...

Prosecutors Say D4vd Bought Tools Online After Killing Teen

Prosecutors allege singer killed teen, bought chainsaws to hide evidence

(Newser) - Singer D4vd is facing a disturbing new set of allegations that prosecutors say lay out how he prepared to get rid of a 14-year-old girl's body, the BBC reports. In a newly filed court document, prosecutors allege the musician, born David Anthony Burke, fatally stabbed Celeste Rivas Hernandez at...

A Former President Has Time Tacked Onto His Prison Term

Appeals court finds Yoon Suk Yeol guilty of more martial-law abuses, ups 5-year term to 7 years

(Newser) - South Korea's already jailed former president just saw one of his prison terms get longer. An appeals court on Wednesday boosted Yoon Suk Yeol's sentence from five to seven years over his attempt to block his own arrest during his brief 2024 declaration of martial law, reports Reuters...

South Korea's Ex-President Faces 30 Years Over Drone Plot

Prosecutors say he tried to stoke tensions with Pyongyang in lead-up to his martial law declaration

(Newser) - South Korea's ousted former president now knows what sentence prosecutors want to see on his record: three decades behind bars, reports Reuters . A Seoul court on Friday heard prosecutors request a 30-year prison term for Yoon Suk Yeol over allegations he ordered a drone mission over Pyongyang to help...

Hip-Hop Stars Urge Justices to Leave Lyrics Out of Case

Artists tell Supreme Court the words don't amount to a confession

(Newser) - Texas prosecutors didn't just play a defendant's rap lyrics for jurors—they handed over 40 handwritten pages, and the jury chose death over life in prison. That 2009 sentencing of James Broadnax, a Black man convicted of killing two white men during a 2008 robbery, is now before...

WH Fires Judge-Appointed US Attorney Hours After Hiring

Move in New York over Donald Kinsella intensifies showdown over authority to appoint US attorneys

(Newser) - A 79-year-old prosecutor's return to federal service in upstate New York lasted just hours. On Wednesday, judges in the Northern District of New York quietly tapped veteran litigator Donald Kinsella as US attorney—only for the White House to swiftly inform him by email that he was out. Kinsella,...

Ex-Teacher Accused of Abusing 89 Minors

French authorities name suspect Jacques Leveugle to encourage more alleged victims to come forward

(Newser) - French authorities are taking the unusual step of naming a 79-year-old former teacher they say abused minors across five continents, hoping to hear from anyone else he may have targeted. Prosecutors in Grenoble on Tuesday publicly identified Jacques Leveugle as the man charged with raping or sexually assaulting 89 boys,...

Amanda Knox Returns to Italy to Confront Former Prosecutor
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Amanda Knox Finally Confronts Man Who Put Her Behind Bars

New Hulu documentary follows Knox's emotional reunion with Italian prosecutor Giuliano Mignini

(Newser) - Amanda Knox's return to Italy was for one significant reason: to confront the man she once blamed for destroying her life. In the new Hulu documentary Mouth of the Wolf: Amanda Knox Returns to Italy, Knox and her husband, filmmaker Chris Robinson, chronicle her decision to confront retired Italian...

Julio Iglesias Denies Sex Abuse Allegations From 2 Ex-Workers
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Julio Iglesias Is Off the Legal Hook in Spain

Prosecutors there drop sex-abuse probe, saying alleged crimes took place outside Spanish purview

(Newser) - Spanish prosecutors have dropped a sexual abuse probe into singer Julio Iglesias, saying that the supposed crimes took place in the Caribbean, and that Spain therefore wouldn't have jurisdiction. In a written statement, the prosecutors noted that "all of the allegedly criminal acts would have occurred outside Spanish...

Review of Epstein Files Overwhelms Top Prosecutors

They're 'crushed by the work,' a redaction effort that threatens to delay other major SDNY cases

(Newser) - The most powerful federal prosecutor office in the country has effectively become the Epstein documents office. Sources and internal memos reviewed by Politico indicate that nearly every prosecutor in the Southern District of New York who isn't currently in court or prepping for an upcoming trial has been drafted...

South Korea's Ex-PM Sentenced in Martial Law Case

Han Duck-soo gets 23 years in prison for his role in then-President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law decree

(Newser) - South Korea just handed down a tough political ruling, and it landed on a former prime minister. The Guardian reports that Han Duck-soo was sentenced on Wednesday to 23 years behind bars for helping then-President Yoon Suk Yeol push through an unconstitutional martial law decree in December 2024—an attempt...

How Prosecutors Feel When the Bad Guy Gets Pardoned

Career prosecutors say clemencies erase accountability, waste years of work

(Newser) - The Washington Post zooms in on an unusual perspective in the Trump pardon story: the prosecutors who spent years building complex cases, only to watch them vanish with a signature. Reporter Perry Stein details how public-corruption and white-collar-crime teams poured millions in taxpayer-funded resources and countless late nights into prosecutions...

Prosecutors Want Death for South Korea's Ousted Leader

Yoon Suk Yeol, accused of attempted insurrection, awaits judge's verdict

(Newser) - South Korea's most dramatic political trial in decades is now in a judge's hands—and prosecutors want the ultimate punishment. They've requested the death penalty for former President Yoon Suk Yeol, arguing he led an attempted insurrection when he briefly declared martial law in December 2024, per...

'Dr. Death' Poisoned 30 So He Could Act the Hero

12 died through the actions of anesthetist Frédéric Péchier, handed life sentence

(Newser) - A onetime "star anesthetist" in France will spend the rest of his life in prison. A court in Besançon on Thursday handed 53-year-old Frédéric Péchier a life sentence for poisoning 30 patients over nearly a decade, 12 of whom died after suffering cardiac arrest during...

Brian Walshe Guilty of First-Degree Murder

Massachusetts man claimed he dismembered her in a panic after she died suddenly

(Newser) - Jurors in Massachusetts needed just six hours to decide that Brian Walshe killed his wife, even though her body has never been found. A Norfolk County jury on Monday convicted Walshe of first-degree murder in the death of 39-year-old Ana Walshe, who vanished on New Year's Day 2023. The...

Grand Jury Again Rejects Indicting Letitia James

Lawyer says it's clear Trump's DOJ should never have brought the case against New York's attorney general

(Newser) - A federal grand jury in Virginia has again declined to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James, derailing another effort by the Trump administration to pursue a criminal case against one of the president's political adversaries. Alexandria jurors on Thursday rejected prosecutors' push to reindict James, the New York Times...

Ex-DOJ Officials, Scholars: Comey Case Must Be Tossed

Former officials say prosecution is political retribution, not justice

(Newser) - More than 100 former Justice Department officials are pushing a federal judge to dismiss the criminal case against former FBI director James Comey, alleging the prosecution is driven by political motives rather than legal merit, the Washington Post reports. The group—which spans both Republican and Democratic administrations and includes...

DOJ: Staffers' Posts Didn't Hurt Mangione's Case

They expressed their views about his guilt

(Newser) - Federal prosecutors are pushing back against claims that two Justice Department staffers compromised Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial by reposting President Trump's pointed remarks about Mangione along with their own opinions. In a letter to the Southern District of New York, prosecutors argued the employees were...

Prosecutors Think Mushroom Killer's Sentence Is Weak

That Erin Patterson is eligible for parole after 33 years is 'manifestly inadequate,' they say

(Newser) - Australian prosecutors are pushing for a tougher punishment for Erin Patterson, the woman convicted of killing three relatives and attempting to murder a fourth with a poisonous mushroom lunch. Patterson, 51, received a life sentence last month , with the possibility of parole only after 33 years—a term already...

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