Kitchens was sentenced to five years in prison with a one-year sentence counted as time served. The remaining four years has been suspended, and will be reevaluated after the rapper completes 500 hours of community service. “While I have agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have NOT […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Former Louisville police Detective Kelly Goodlett intends to plead guilty to a civil rights charge stemming from the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose death in a botched police drug raid helped spark racial justice protests in 2020. Goodlett is set to appear Aug. 22 before a federal […]
The sentence for the civil rights case could be served concurrently with the sentencing for his murder conviction on the state level, according to CNN. In December, Chauvin pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s rights and admitted that he kept his knee on Floyd’s neck after he became unresponsive, NBC News reports. He also admitted that […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A California woman who wrongly accused a Black teen of taking her phone at a New York City hotel, grabbing at him as he tried to leave, has reached a plea deal that spares her from prison if she avoids trouble. Miya Ponsetto, 23, pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful imprisonment as a […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A former Louisiana teacher who pleaded guilty to tainting cupcakes with her ex-husband’s bodily fluids and feeding them to school children was sentenced Friday to 41 years in prison. Authorities said Cynthia Perkins committed the acts with her ex, Dennis Perkins, a former Livingston Parish sheriff’s lieutenant. She initially faced 150 felony […]