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☆ Diddy to accuse DOJ of grand jury 'leaks' in sex-trafficking case
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The issue may be argued at Combs' next court date, scheduled for Thursday in Manhattan. Combs will seek "a hearing and other remedies" from what he calls prejudicial grand jury leaks. AdvertisementLawyers for Sean "Diddy" Combs alleged Wednesday that unauthorized grand jury leaks have prejudiced his sex-trafficking case. The two-page letter says Combs will ask on Thursday that a trial date be set in April or May 2025. Wednesday's letter also alerts the judge that the parties intend to discuss on Thursday what federal prosecutors called the "voluminous" evidence in the case.

Persons: Combs, —, Sean, Diddy, Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos, Arun Subramanian, Subramanian Organizations: Service, US Locations: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Miami

☆ Analysis: John Roberts remains confounded by Donald Trump as election approaches
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Joan Biskupic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The former star appellate lawyer who allies once cast as the smartest person in the room remains confounded by the realities of Donald Trump. Roberts was shaken by the adverse public reaction to his decision affording Trump substantial immunity from criminal prosecution. The Roberts Court has been in sync with the GOP political agenda largely because of decisions the chief justice has authored: For Trump and other Republicans. But the politically charged valence deepened in the justices’ resolution of the case against former President Trump on election-interference charges from 2020. Harvard Law School professor Richard Lazarus, a longtime friend of Roberts, spent time with him in July immediately after the Trump decision was issued.

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A couple, badly hurt in an Uber crash, can’t sue the company because their daughter once waived trial rights while using Uber Eats — a fateful click that prevents the family from suing the tech giant, a New Jersey appellate court ruled. But the court ruled that the couple cannot sue the tech giant because their daughter, a minor, once checked a box while using her mother’s phone to order a pizza on Uber Eats, agreeing to waive trial rights. Georgia and John McGinty. And even before that pizza order, the company said, Georgia McGinty had previously clicked through Uber’s fine print, agreeing to waive a jury trial. John McGinty suffered a fractured sternum and severe fractures to his left arm and wrist, leading to a bone graft.

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☆ Couple in a severe Uber crash can’t sue because of an Uber Eats order
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —A married New Jersey couple that was in a severe accident during an Uber ride can’t sue the company because they and their daughter agreed to arbitration when they accepted the terms of service for a separate Uber Eats order, a court has ruled. Georgia sustained several fractures throughout her body, including cervical, lumbar, spine and rib fractures and other physical injuries that required surgeries and other procedures. They tried taking Uber to court for a jury trial, but an appellate court recently ruled they can’t because they previously agreed to Uber’s updated terms and conditions requiring arbitration, which are the same in the Uber Eats and Uber ride app. The McGinty’s attorneys told CNN they’re reviewing the decision and will “likely” petition the New Jersey Supreme Court. Anger over arbitrationIt’s the latest case that highlights the intricacies of the terms of services having binding arbitration agreements that users agree to with many companies.

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If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals? One of the most powerful appointees within the Justice Department is the director of the F.B.I., who ordinarily serves a 10-year term. He would be limited to a pool of senior Justice Department employees and Senate-confirmed officials, but still…. Even if Trump has installed loyalists at the top levels of the Justice Department, F.B.I. If the public comes to see the Justice Department as compromised, will witnesses and informants continue to cooperate?

Persons: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Biden, weaponizing, Harris, Trump, Richard Nixon, Christopher Wray, James Comey, …, Joe Biden, —, Peter Keisler, George W, Bush, “, Hillary Clinton, Aileen Cannon, Jack Smith, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Robert Jackson Organizations: Trump, Department, Justice Department, Loyalists, Republicans, Senate, Power, White, Heritage Foundation, Federal, Justice, Prosecutors, Republican, 11th Circuits, Capitol Locations: U.S, Texas, Florida, America

☆ Diddy hires a new lawyer who is also representing his jail roommate Sam Bankman-Fried
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sean "Diddy" Combs hired a new lawyer to try to get out of jail. The same attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, represents Sam Bankman-Fried. The new lawyer he picked up is also representing his roommate, notorious fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. Shapiro is representing Bankman-Fried on appeal after the FTX and Alameda Research founder was sentenced to 25 years in prison and convicted by a jury on fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy charges. Shapiro didn't immediately respond to a request for comment, and neither did an attorney representing Combs in his earlier bond arguments.

Persons: Sean, Diddy, Combs, Alexandra Shapiro, Sam Bankman, SBF, —, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shapiro, Fried, he's, wunderkind, Shapiro didn't Organizations: Service, Supreme, Alameda Research, Detention Center, Bankman Locations: Brooklyn, Brooklyn's

☆ Oklahoma executes a man for a 1992 killing despite board recommending his life be spared
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and was declared dead at 10:17 a.m. His execution came after Republican Gov. The five executions would also mark another grim milestone — 1,600 executions since the death penalty was reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Littlejohn was 20 when prosecutors say he and co-defendant Glenn Bethany robbed the Root-N-Scoot convenience store in south Oklahoma City in June 1992. Littlejohn’s attorneys also argued that killings resulting from a robbery are rarely considered death penalty cases and that prosecutors today would not have pursued the ultimate punishment. Because of the board’s 3-2 recommendation, Stitt had the option of commuting Littlejohn’s sentence to life in prison without parole.

Persons: Emmanuel Littlejohn, Kevin Stitt, “, ”, Stitt, Littlejohn, Glenn Bethany, Kenneth Meers, Meers, Bethany, Emmanuel, he’d, Caitlin Hoeberlein, Attorney Bob Macy, Julius Jones ’, Jones, Bigler Stouffer, James Coddington, Phillip Hancock Organizations: Oklahoma State Penitentiary, Republican Gov, Wednesday, U.S, Supreme, Oklahoma, Attorney Locations: McALESTER, Okla, — Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Alabama, U.S, Oklahoma City

☆ Appeals court hears arguments in fight between 2 tribes over Alabama casino built on ‘sacred’ land
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The dispute involves land, known as Hickory Ground, that was home to the Muscogee Nation before removal to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. The Muscogee Nation is appealing a federal judge’s decision to dismiss their lawsuit over the casino construction. “Hickory Ground is sacred,” Mary Kathryn Nagle, an attorney representing the Muscogee Nation told the three-judge panel. The Poarch Band, which maintains their work preserved much of Hickory Ground, depicted the case as an attack on their sovereignty. Members of the Muscogee Nation marched to the Atlanta courthouse ahead of the arguments.

Persons: ” Mary Kathryn Nagle, Mark Reeves, ” Reeves, Bill Pryor, Nagle, Robert J, Luck, David Hill Organizations: Alabama’s Poarch, Alabama, Muscogee Nation, Protection, Poarch, Chief Locations: ATLANTA, Alabama, Muscogee, Oklahoma, Hickory, Atlanta, United States

☆ NY appeals court on Thursday to hear arguments on Trump’s $454 million civil fraud judgment
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Kara Scannell | Jeremy Herb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A New York appeals court is set to hear arguments Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s bid to have the $454 million civil fraud judgment against him dismissed. The appellate hearing is yet another legal development for Trump playing out the same time as his presidential campaign hits the homestretch. In addition to the civil fraud appeal, Trump’s lawyers have argued to dismiss the guilty verdict in the New York criminal case, the federal election interference case in Washington, DC, and the E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict – all in the past month. The judgment against Trump was for $354 million, with an additional $100 million in interest that had accrued when the judge’s ruling was issued in February. “The award of $464 million in a case with no victims, no proven injuries, and no losses is not remotely defensible,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Jean Carroll, Arthur Engoron, Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Engoron, ’, ”, “ Organizations: CNN, Trump, New Locations: York, New York, Washington ,

☆ NY appellate judges voice serious doubts about Trump's $454M civil fraud verdict
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump's arguments for overturning his $454M civil fraud verdict received a warm reception Thursday. Trump attorney D. John Sauer has made this line drawing a central point of his appeal. The appeal argues that James' fraud case wrongly interfered in the decisions of "sophisticated" banks that had been happy to loan Trump money regardless of any exaggerations. Deutsche Bank relied on Trump's financial statements in loaning him $400 million to develop his Chicago skyscraper, his Washington, DC hotel, and his Miami golf resort. Advertisement"And I will stress, your honor, that this does have harm to the public and the markets," she said of Trump's persistent financial frauds.

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☆ Trump's already massive New York civil fraud penalty has grown by $24M in interest ahead of a Thursday court showdown
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

(For perspective, Trump's 2016 settlements in three Trump University fraud cases totaled $25 million.) AdvertisementTrump has denied any fraud, and his lawyers argue in their appeal that the judgment is unjustified, legally flawed, and excessive. By winning his appeal, Trump would also dodge the judgment's non-monetary punishments, which are many. Winning would mean Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump would no longer face being banned for two years from running Trump Org or any other business in New York state. By appealing, Trump has kept all of these fraud punishments on ice, with the exception of the Trump Org monitoring, which is ongoing.

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☆ Marcellus Williams is executed despite prosecutors and the victim’s family asking that he be spared
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Cindy Von Quednow | Holly Yan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Around 100 demonstrators were present on the prison grounds protesting capital punishment and Williams’ execution, Pojmann said. Williams’ team filed a clemency petition to the US Supreme Court last week, noting Missouri’s previous governor had postponed Williams’ execution indefinitely amid questions about the integrity of Williams’ trial. Eric Greitens previously halted Williams’ execution and formed a board to investigate his case and determine whether he should be granted clemency. “The Board investigated Williams’ case for the next six years — until Governor Michael Parson abruptly terminated the process,” Williams’ attorneys wrote. “The Governor’s actions have violated Williams’ constitutional rights and created an exceptionally urgent need for the Court’s attention,” Williams’ attorneys said in court documents.

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☆ Marcellus Williams execution: Missouri Supreme Court declines to intervene
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Cindy Von Quednow | Holly Yan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. “No jury nor court, including at the trial, appellate, and Supreme Court levels, have ever found merit in Mr. Williams’ innocence claims. The NAACP and the Council on American-Islamic Relations have called on Parson to halt Williams’ execution. How the state Supreme Court decidedThe court considered several questions, the state’s judicial branch said. But after Parson took office, he dissolved the board investigating Williams’ case and revoked Williams’ stay of execution in 2023.

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“They’ve already been trying to tie legislative candidates to Robinson for months. “Our state legislative candidates have already been running on kind of the dangers of having someone like Mark Robinson in office. A Democratic operative in North Carolina predicted the latest Robinson bombshell would be used as a vehicle to attempt to depress Republican turnout while also “amping up” Democrats. No Republican legislative candidates in North Carolina had publicly denounced Robinson after the CNN report as of late Friday afternoon. An official with the Republican State Leadership Committee, which has pledged to raise and spend $50 million in state legislative races this cycle, didn’t respond to questions Friday.

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☆ Biden makes history with 12th Senate-confirmed LGBTQ judge
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

That surpassed the record of Democratic former President Barack Obama, who had secured the confirmation of 11 openly LGBTQ judges during his eight years in office. Only in the last three decades have presidents nominated openly gay people to the federal bench. Circuit Judge Alison Nathan joined the bench as a trial judge in Manhattan following her nomination by Obama. Circuit Judges Beth Robinson of the 2nd Circuit and Nicole Berner of the 4th U.S. The bulk of openly LGBTQ nominees have come from Democratic presidents, though Republican former President Donald Trump appointed two openly gay judges.

Persons: Joe Biden, Mary Kay Costello, Biden, Barack Obama, Lena Zwarensteyn, ” Zwarensteyn, Costello, Saul Ewing, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer, Feld, Judge Vaughn Walker, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Deborah Batts, Bill Clinton, Alison Nathan, Obama, Nathan, Beth Robinson, Nicole Berner, Donald Trump Organizations: Democratic, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Conference, Civil, Human, U.S . Air Force, Temple University, Attorney’s, Eastern, Former U.S, Republican, Gay, U.S, Circuit, Appeals, 2nd, NBC Locations: Philadelphia, Eastern District, San Francisco, George H.W ., Manhattan, New York City

☆ Trump wins a new, quicker path to SCOTUS overturning his felony conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewLate Thursday morning, Donald Trump lost his last state-level appeal of his hush-money gag order. These two new legal losses now leave the door open for Trump to run to the US Supreme Court, according to constitutional law expert Michel Paradis. New York CourtsBoth losses are eligible under federal statute for Trump to seek Supreme Court review, also known as petitioning for "certiorari," or "cert" for short. Related stories"Ordinarily, the Supreme Court will only agree to hear questions that were decided by a lower court. AdvertisementAnd because Trump is Trump — and because "the Supreme Court can basically do whatever it wants" — the former president will likely dream big, Paradis predicted.

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Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose alleged sexual misconduct fueled the #MeToo movement, has been indicted on new charges by a New York City grand jury, Manhattan prosecutors announced during a court hearing Thursday. The new indictment is under seal, prosecutor Nicole Blumberg told Judge Curtis Farber, who has set a trial date for Nov. 12. NBC News was the first to report this month that a grand jury had been convened to hear from women who had come forward with new accusations against Weinstein, 72. Weinstein was convicted in 2020 of third-degree rape of one woman and first-degree criminal sex act against another woman after a trial in New York, where he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. New York prosecutors announced months later that they intended to recharge Weinstein for the same crimes and possibly bring forward new charges.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Nicole Blumberg, Curtis Farber, Weinstein, Oscar, Bob Weinstein, ”, Love, Weinstein's Organizations: Hollywood, New, NBC, Bellevue Hospital Locations: New York City, Manhattan, Bellevue, New York, York, Los Angeles

Harvey Weinstein had heart surgery Monday after he complained of health issues and was moved from a New York City jail to a hospital, a representative for the disgraced movie mogul said. Weinstein, whose 2020 rape conviction was overturned in April, remained in recovery at the intensive care unit at Bellevue Hospital on Monday night, said the representative, Craig Rothfeld. Weinstein was moved from Rikers Island jail to the hospital after complaining that he didn’t feel well and had experienced significant weight gain from medication, Rothfeld said. He underwent pericardiocentesis surgery Monday morning to alleviate a significant amount of fluid from his lungs and heart, Rothfeld said. In July, Weinstein was hospitalized for a “myriad of health conditions” and tested positive for Covid-19 and double pneumonia, his representative said.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein, Craig Rothfeld, Rothfeld, Oscar Organizations: Bellevue Hospital, Hollywood, NBC Locations: New York City, Rikers, New York, Los Angeles, York

☆ Trump airplane-assault accuser Jessica Leeds calls him a 'sexual predator' and says she's deciding whether to sue
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAt a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Friday, former President Donald Trump wanted the world to know he would never have sexually assaulted Jessica Leeds. "She would not have been the chosen one," he told reporters, implying her appearance wasn't up to his standards. On Monday, Leeds held a press conference of her own to confront him on that insult. With Trump Tower as her backdrop, she called the GOP presidential candidate "a sexual predator" and said she is deciding whether to sue him. Jessica Leeds speaks during a press conference outside Trump Tower.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Jessica Leeds, Trump, Jean Carroll, Carroll, Trump's, Natasha Stoynoff, Julia Nikhinson Leeds, Carroll's, defaming Carroll, Stoynoff —, Bergdorf Goodman Organizations: Service, Trump, Leeds, Trump Tower, GOP, Business, New York Times, AP, Monday Locations: Manhattan, New York, Carroll, Leeds

☆ Trump will mimic Harvey Weinstein's successful appeal to fight his own sexual-assault verdict Friday. It won't be as easy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The judge who oversaw the trial later said: "Trump 'raped' her as many people commonly understand the word 'rape.'" AdvertisementBut the lawyers who won Weinstein's appeal told Business Insider that what worked for their client probably wouldn't work for Trump. In the May 2023 verdict, the jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. In the second trial, earlier this year, a separate jury said Trump owed Carroll an additional $83 million in defamation damages. AdvertisementInstead, it needed to find it was "more probable than not" that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll, a standard far more common in civil cases.

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☆ When Do Women Have the Right to Kill in Self-Defense? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-04 | by ( Rachel Louise Snyder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +45 min

Mr. Ford kept their daughter at home to ensure Ms. Ford wouldn’t tell anyone in the emergency room how Robert’s injury happened. Ms. Ford, now 65, is serving a sentence of life without parole at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. Leigh Goodmark, the author of the book “Imperfect Victims,” said that self-defense law imagines two parties of equal strength, size, weight and physical capability. But where self-defense law really fails to capture a woman’s experience is around the question of imminence. For women like Ms. Ford, Ms. Ayobi and many others, killing their way out of a relationship was an act of salvation — for themselves, for their children.

Persons: Anita Ford, Barry Ford, They’d, Robert, they’d, she’d, didn’t, wouldn’t, Ford, Ford’s, ” Mr, Debra Gomes, “ It’s, ”, I’m, —, George Wright, Wright, — Lionel Cashman, John Aldridge —, Aldridge, Cashman, Ms, “, Theresa Jones, Caroline Light, Michal Goldstein, Agatha Nyarko, they’ve, Cynthia Gillespie, doggedly, Gillespie, Leigh Goodmark, Nancy Grigsby, She’s, ” Ms, Grigsby, she’s, Shajia Ayobi, Ghulam Ayobi, Ayobi, Masiula, he’d, Debbie Mukamal, Andrea Cimino, what’s, proctors, proctor, we’d, Weeks, Miranda Gallegos, Janeen Snyder, Debby Saravia, Jamie Monroe, Malinda Jones, Mukamal, We’re, Lenore Walker, Walker, Karla Porter, Porter, It’s, Michal Buchhandler, Raphael, Mary Anne Franks, shouldn’t, Angelique Lyn Lavallee, Kevin Rust, Bertha Wilson, ’, Justice Wilson, Elizabeth Sheehy, George Zimmerman, Kyle Rittenhouse Organizations: Defense, Fords, Stanford, School’s Criminal, Center, Central, Central California Women’s, National Commission, An Ohio Supreme, Northwest Women’s Law Center, Violence Network, Ford, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, California Institution, Women, Research, Widener University, George Washington University, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Locations: United States, Central California, Chowchilla, Mexico, Huntington Beach, Calif, Lakewood, An Ohio, Florida, Seattle, Ohio, Afghanistan, Sacramento, Canada, California, manila, Chino Hills, Los Angeles, D.U.I.s, San Jose, Maryland, New York , California, Oklahoma

☆ An unprecedented legal move could let Trump delay his hush-money sentencing until after Election Day
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Two days before his sentencing, Trump, they predict, will seek something never before allowed in the appellate courts in New York or in most states for that matter: an interlocutory appeal. AdvertisementEven Trump's Manhattan prosecutors are conceding that this is a legal monkey wrench to be reckoned with. "If New York's courts deny him a right to appeal, he can challenge the decision in federal court," said Paradis. If the federal district court in Manhattan says no, "he can appeal that to the second circuit federal court of appeals." This story has been updated to reflect Trump's federal court efforts, from August 29 to September 4, to further delay sentencing.

Persons: —, Donald, Trump, John Moscow, Donald Trump, Todd Blanche, Justin Lane, that's, Stormy Daniels, Juan Merchan, White, Hope Hicks, Merchan, Alvin Hellerstein, tersely, Trump hasimmediately, Michel Paradis, Emil Bove, Paradis, Attorney Alvin Bragg, SCOTUS, Emil Bove ., Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss PLLC, unfinalized, Frank Bowman Organizations: Service, Business, Manhattan, US, White House, Trump, Columbia Law School, York, DA, Attorney, University of Missouri Locations: New York, Manhattan, Merchan

☆ Chess games and a new job: How Alex Murdaugh is spending life behind bars
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Pilar Melendez | Pilar Melendez Is An Editor On The Nbc News Platforms Team. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Disgraced former South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh scored a big legal win last week after the South Carolina Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal for a new murder trial. Murdaugh’s lawyer, however, is not worried and is focused on their appellant cases. Last week, the state Supreme Court agreed to hear Murdaugh’s state appeal for a new murder trial based on allegations that a court clerk tampered with the jury that convicted him. Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal’s decision came after an evidentiary hearing into whether Hill’s comments during the trial influenced the jury. “We are really looking forward to making our case to the Supreme Court,” Griffin said.

Persons: Alex Murdaugh, Murdaugh, Jim Griffin, “ Alex, ”, ” Griffin, Maggie, Paul, Aimee Zmroczek, Curtis Eddie Smith, Zmroczek, ” Zmroczek, Chrysti Shain, “, Murdaugh’s, ” Shain, Eric Bland, doesn’t condon, ” Bland, Colleton, Becky Hill, Jean Toal’s, Toal, Hill Organizations: South, South Carolina Supreme, NBC, Murdaugh’s, NBC News, South Carolina Department of Corrections, Department of Corrections, “ Locations: South Carolina, Murdaugh’s “, Colleton County

☆ Prosecutors used an AI tool to send a man to prison for life. Now the person who created it is under investigation.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

But prosecutors had no direct evidence tying Black to the location of the murder, an Ohio appellate court later said. In many cases, prosecutors themselves don't even have access to the source code and haven't reviewed the underlying technology. Back in Akron, the judge in Rankin's case ordered the Cybercheck evidence excluded after prosecutors failed to turn over the source code. The Summit County Prosecutor's Office declined to comment when reached by BI. It's unclear how many others may be behind bars because of Cybercheck evidence that was never rigorously scrutinized.

Persons: Adarus Black, Black, Na'Kia Crawford, Crawford, Adam Mosher, Mosher, Cybercheck, Chris Ramsey, It's, That's, Donald Malarcik, Summit County who've, Javion Rankin, Tyraye Carter, Rankin, Malarcik, Eric Zale, Zale, Mr, Shara Munn, she'd, Freiheit, Meghan, Breck, Roesch, weren't, They've, who's, isn't, Phillip Mendoza, Kimberly Thompson, Brian James, Tyree Halsell, Mendoza, Mosher's, Steve Michniak, Michinaik, William Holland, Brian Stano, Katherine Long, Jack Newsham Organizations: Business, NBC News, Cybercheck, Prosecutors, Police, Fleming College, Technicians, Akron Police Department, University of Saskatchewan, Summit, Prosecutor's, BI Locations: America, Akron , Ohio, Ohio, Colorado , New York, Florida, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Denver, Akron, Summit County , Ohio, Canada, Toronto, Summit County, Boulder , Colorado, New Brunswick, Calgary, Colorado, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Colorado , Ohio, East Akron , Ohio, Summit, Portage County, Lake Erie

☆ Judge orders DOJ to return helmet, spear to 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

"QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley will regain possession of the makeshift spear and horned helmet that he carried as he stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot with other Trump supporters, a federal judge ruled Monday. "Since the government has not established that it still needs these items as evidence and has not sought their forfeiture, the Court will GRANT Mr. Chansley's motion," Lamberth wrote. The DOJ last month said it wanted to hold on to Chansley's property, because despite having expressed remorse at his criminal sentencing, he has since challenged his conviction and sentence. "Even if the government may need to reprove Mr. Chansley's guilt, the government has not explained why it would need his property," the judge wrote in Monday's order. "He was like thousands of others that day," Lamberth wrote in Monday's order.

Persons: Jacob Chansley, Royce Lamberth, GRANT Mr, Lamberth, District of Columbia Matthew Graves, Chansley's, Chansley, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, Mike Pence Organizations: U.S, Senate, U.S . Capitol, Capitol, Trump, Justice, Washington , D.C, DOJ, Attorney, District of Columbia Locations: Washington ,, United States, American

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