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Criminal Justice

Sam Lemon, right, speaks during a news conference with Susie Williams Carter, center, and lawyer Michael Pomerantz, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Philadelphia. Carter is the sister of the youngest person ever executed in the state of Pennsylvania, Alexander McClay Williams, 16, and Lemon is the great-grandson of the attorney who represented him. Carter is suing the county where the Black teenager was convicted in 1931. The suit comes two years after Williams' conviction by an all-white jury was vacated. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Courts & Law

Family of Black Pa. teen wrongly executed in 1931 seeks damages after 2022 exoneration

Sixteen-year-old Alexander McClay Williams remains the youngest person the state has put to death. He was exonerated by Gov. Tom Wolf after researchers dug up new evidence.

1 year ago

measuring marijuana at a dispensary
Politics & Policy

What marijuana reclassification means for the United States

The proposal would move marijuana from the “Schedule I” group to the less tightly regulated “Schedule III."

1 year ago

US Gymnasts Testify As Senate Examines FBI's Handling Of Larry Nassar Investigation
NPR
Community

Justice Department pays $138 million over FBI failures in Larry Nassar case

In 2021, USA Gymnastics agreed to pay hundreds of the female survivors $380 million to settle their claims.

1 year ago

Trump in New York
NPR
Courts & Law

What to know about week 1 of Trump’s criminal trial, with jury selection complete

Twelve jurors and six alternates were finalized on Friday. Opening arguments are expected to begin on Monday.

1 year ago

Illustration of a gavel made of pills and coins.
Courts & Law
Danielle Ohl, Ed Mahon, Spotlight PA

Opioid settlement cash a boon to Pa. prosecutors but public defenders are being turned away

County district attorneys are in line for millions of dollars, but under-resourced public defenders say they’ve been sidelined.

1 year ago

Anthony Wright
Courts & Law

3 retired Philadelphia detectives to stand trial in perjury case stemming from 2016 exoneration

Martin Devlin, Manuel Santiago and Frank Jastrzembski are accused of lying under oath at the 2016 retrial of a man the jury exonerated in a 1991 rape and murder.

1 year ago

Pro-bono attorneys Jeff Rosenthal, partner at Blank Rome and JPMorgan Chase's Mary McCullough work together on a pardon in West Philadelphia. (Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza/WHYY)
Community

Why a business coalition wants more employers to overlook criminal records in Philly

Advocates say too much talent is sitting on the sidelines because criminal records are holding some applicants back.

1 year ago

art installation
Arts & Entertainment

A giant glass box has landed at Philly’s Independence Mall. Who are those people inside?

A new pop-up installation in Center City advocates for clean slate laws using life-size stacks of paperwork.

1 year ago

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Gavel
Courts & Law

New Jersey youth wrestling coach sentenced to more than 7 years in child sex abuse images case

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi sentenced Alec Donovan to 30 years of supervised release, prosecutors said.

1 year ago

File photo: Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 14, 2023. A lawyer for The Wall Street Journal said Thursday, March 21, 2024, that Russia must face consequences for its detention of Gershkovich, one of the newspaper's reporters. Gershkovich was arrested on March 29, 2023, on espionage charges, which he and the newspaper deny.
NPR
Courts & Law

U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich has now spent a whole year jailed in Russia

It's been a year since Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on spying allegations.

1 year ago

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrives for a bail hearing at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on Aug. 11, 2023. Bankman-Fried was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of fraud last year.
NPR
Courts & Law

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for his FTX crimes

The sentence marks a stunning fall for the 32-year-old former crypto executive who was once seen as the future of finance.

1 year ago

Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the press in a hallway outside the courtroom at the end of a hearing to determine the date of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on March 25, 2024. Trump faces twin legal crises today in New York, where he could see the possible seizure of his storied properties over a massive fine as he separately fights to delay a criminal trial even further. (Photo by JUSTIN LANE / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN LANE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

N.Y. judge issues a limited gag order on Trump ahead of hush money trial

The new gag order on former President Donald Trump specifically bars him from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors or jurors in his first criminal trial.

1 year ago

Blanche Carney
Community

Philadelphia prison chief to leave job after string of prisoner deaths and escapes

Since 2016, Blanche Carney has overseen the city’s prisons and jails, which have been dealing with violence and the escape of four prisoners in a span of six months last year.

1 year ago

Crime scene on the street
Courts & Law

Philadelphia mass shooting suspect is headed to trial after receiving mental health treatment

Kimbrady Carriker is charged for the seemingly random shootings in Kingsessing in July 2023.

1 year ago

Bam Margera
Courts & Law
6abc

Charges withdrawn for former TV star Bam Margera following incident outside Radnor Hotel

Margera was cited for public intoxication and disorderly conduct after a dispute at the Radnor Hotel last August.

1 year ago

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