Courts & Law
Trial set to start on charges Smollett faked racist attack
Jussie Smollett is going on trial this week, accused of lying to police when he reported he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack in downtown Chicago.
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For cop who shot Daunte Wright, will ‘wrong gun’ plea work?
Legal experts say a conviction isn’t as certain as it might seem — at least on the most serious charge she faces, manslaughter.
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Gunfire erupts at a Chester County Moose Lodge leaving one person dead
Police say gunfire erupted just before 1 a.m. Saturday at the lodge on the 1200 block of Airport Road in West Caln.
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Man killed by stray bullet during Thanksgiving dinner; gunman at large: DA
A bullet went through a window of a home and struck a man inside. A family member and several neighbors told Action News that man did not survive his injuries.
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Philly’s former chief defender on why the jury convicted Ahmaud Arbery’s killers
Keir Bradford-Grey, former chief of the Philadelphia Defenders Association, explains why the defendants’ claims of self-defense did not hold up in court.
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Listen 6:00‘There’s some hope for this country’: Philly civil rights advocate responds to Arbery verdict
Rev. Mark Kelly Tyler, co-director for the racial justice organization Power Live Free said the case was about much more than what happened to Ahmaud Arbery.
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Listen 5:27All 3 defendants found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery
Arbery’s killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after the graphic video of his death leaked online two months later.
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The Waukesha death toll rises to 6, and the suspect faces homicide charges
Prosecutors said as they filed five counts of first-degree intentional homicide against Darrell Brooks Jr.
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Jury awards $26M in damages for Unite the Right violence
A jury has ordered 17 white nationalist leaders and organizations to pay $26 million in damages over violence that erupted during the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville.
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Hate crime trial for former N.J. police chief will go to the jury on Monday
The defense only called one witness, an FBI agent on the case who called it “atypical.” Federal prosecutors and Frank Nucera Jr.’s attorneys will give closing arguments on Mon
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The jury has begun deliberations in the trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s killing
The lead prosecutor said the three defendants could not claim self-defense, given that they initiated the confrontation.
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Philly police dispatchers indicted for collecting pandemic unemployment, prosecutors say
Federal prosecutors say the employees fraudulently collected Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, while also collecting their city paychecks.
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N.J. man in GoFundMe scam pleads guilty to federal charge
Mark D'Amico, his ex-girlfriend Katelyn McClure, and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. had made up a story that led to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, prosecutors say.
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After the Rittenhouse verdict, focus returns to Chrystul Kizer’s self-defense case
Kizer, who was 17 at the time, is accused of shooting Randall P. Volar III in the head; Volar had previously been arrested on child sexual assault charges.
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