After being found guilty of smuggling drugs with criminal intent in Russia, Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison and was fined 1 million rubles ($16,590), according to The Washington Post. The basketball star appeared in court on Thursday, becoming emotional while pleading with the judge for leniency. Source link Related Posts Nation’s […]
Federal prosecutors asked the judge to give Lane between 5.25 to 6.5 years in prison for his involvement in Floyd’s murder. Lane’s attorney Earl Gray asked for 2.25 years. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson said that Lane played a “minimal role” in the incident, and also described him as a person of “outstanding character,” CNN […]
A Michigan man has been sentenced to prison time for allegedly shooting a 6-year-old child for being on his lawn with his siblings. Ryan Le-Nguyen plead no contest in March after discharging a firearm and causing injury to a 6-year-old who was playing on his yard. He was sentenced in April by 14 to 40 months to […]
17-year-old Willie Francis was preparing for his death on May 3, 1946. The teen was put into “Gruesome Gertie,” Louisiana’s electric chair, too scared to say his goodbyes, Francis awaited the inevitable moment when he would sent to his death. However, once the time came, something went wrong. Francis survived the electric chair. This started a […]
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering his teen daughter along with a rape charges. Law enforcement officials said 35-year-old Joshua Lee Burgess walked in August 2019 at around 9:24 am and explained the details of the crime to 911 dispatchers. A press release from the sheriff’s […]
A Texas mother who let her 13-year-old daughter marry and experience sexual abuse by a 47-year-old man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Everything was revealed in 2017 when the girl told her doctor during a medical examine that she was sexually active with “her husband,” who she said was 47-years old. The […]
ShareTweetSubscribe AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman sentenced to five years in prison for illegal voting after filling out a provisional ballot while on parole in 2016 won a key ruling Wednesday in her effort to have the conviction overturned. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered a lower court to review whether there was sufficient […]
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 […]
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 375 years in prison for the 2016 murders of a woman and two children because of a comment posted on Facebook. Last week, Jeremy Arrington, 32, was sentenced for the murder of Ariel Little Whitehurst, 7, Al-Jahon Whitehurst, 11, and Syasia McBurroughs, 23, NJ.com reported. Arrington stabbed the two […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee state senator expelled from office after a conviction for using federal grant money on wedding expenses instead of the nursing school she operates was sentenced Friday to a year of probation but no prison time. Katrina Robinson had faced four to 10 months in prison under sentencing guidelines […]