A former St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to 52 months in prison, after four years after he beat a Black officer who was working undercover during a protest in 2017. Randy Hays, 34, was facing up to 10 years in prison for being apart in the beating of Detective Luther Hall, however, will […]
Update (July 16, 2021): A federal judge has ruled that the mother of Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles will be able to support her daughter from home during the Tokyo Olympics. Gina Chiles was supposed to report to federal prison to carry out a sentence for wire fraud on July 27, the same day Jordan is […]
Ken Paxton, the attorney general who ordered the arrest, took to Twitter to defend the charges his office levied against Rogers. “Hervis is a felon rightly barred from voting under TX law . . . I prosecute voter fraud everywhere we find it,” Paxton’s tweet read. Hervis is a felon rightly barred from voting under TX law. This […]
An Michigan man has been sentenced on Thursday to 5 years in prison after he hit a Black teen in the face with a bike lock just because he was Black. Lee Mouat, 43, has been sentenced to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty. The charges are […]
A white Michigan man was sentenced to prison for carrying out a racist attack against a Black teenager last year. A Detroit federal court judge ordered 43-year-old Lee Mouat to serve five years in prison for committing a hate crime against 18-year-old Devin Freelon Jr. on June 6, 2020, the Justice Department announced. The judge […]
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Cosby’s sexual assault allegations made headlines in 2017 during a high-profile trial where he faced charges for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University women’s basketball official Andrea Constand. Spanning from the 1960s to 2008, 60 women have accused the now 83-year-old of sexual assault, helping to ignite the #MeToo movement for sexual assault survivors, […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby. Cosby, 83, flashed the […]
Pennsylvania’s highest court has overturned the sexual assault conviction for Bill Cosby, who has served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a state prison near Philadelphia. In the ruling on Wednesday, the 7-member Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Cosby had been denied a fair trial in 2018. The 83-year-old actor was […]
A 76-year-old woman is going back to prison after reportedly missed a phone call from officials charged with supervising her while was taking a computer word-processing course in Baltimore Inner Harbor. Gwen Levi is just one of many federal prisoners who was released from prison and sent to home confinement during the pandemic according to […]