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An Atlanta man was found not guilty of 26 charges relating to a drive-by shooting that occurred in 2013, after he already spent seven years in prison awaiting trial. Condell Benyard sat in jail for seven years awaiting his trial, due in part to the pandemic and because the courthouse flooded at some point. Late ...

A lead prosecutor who worked on the 2001 Chandra Levy murder case in Washington, D.C., has been found to have committed “grave” prosecutorial misconduct, an ethics panel has found. Amanda Haines, who has retired from practicing law, should have her law license suspended for 60 days, the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility recommended ...

A banker convicted of helping Alex Murdaugh steal money from people who hired him to be their attorney has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Former Palmetto State Bank CEO Russell Laffitte, 51, was sentenced on Tuesday after he was convicted of six charges of wire and bank fraud last November. Laffitte will become ...

The family of a man who died in an Atlanta jail cell after allegedly being “eaten alive” by bugs has settled their lawsuit against Fulton County for $4 million. Lashawn Thompson, 35, was arrested on June 12, 2022, for a misdemeanor simple battery charge. He was sent to Fulton County Jail and placed in the psychiatric ...

An attorney for the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students claims her client was out driving alone on the night of the murders and wasn’t in the home at the time of the murders. The 28-year-old suspect, who is not being named per Daily Wire policy, has been charged with killing Ethan ...

A judge in Tennessee has dismissed charges against a Chattanooga woman who was convicted in 2019 of murdering a man 10 years earlier – when she was just 13 years old. Hamilton County Judge Amanda Dunn on Tuesday dismissed first-degree murder and aggravated robbery convictions for Angel Bumpass, now 28 and a mother of two ...

Rachael Abraham’s life was never easy. At 10-years-old, her mother signed away her rights to children, placing Rachael and her younger siblings in the foster care system. Then, while Rachael was in high school, her white foster parents abandoned her and drove to California without leaving a forwarding address, the Washington Examiner reported last December. ...

An 18-year-old has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and murdering an 11-year-old Texas girl. Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez, 18, was arrested this weekend by the Shreveport Police Department in Louisiana and is expected to be charged with capital murder, KHOU 11 reported. He is currently awaiting extradition back to Pasadena, Texas. Pasadena Police Chief Josh ...

A defense attorney for the 28-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students continues to question the validity of DNA found on a knife sheath at the crime scene. Anne Taylor, the defense attorney, on Friday again argued that the prosecution had not provided full DNA information from the crime, CBS News reported. ...

A wealthy Pennsylvania dentist was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for killing his wife in 2016 while the two were on an African safari. Larry Rudolph, 68, was convicted one year ago on one count of killing his wife Bianca and one count of mail fraud for collecting more than $4.8 million in ...