13 h. ago Lawyers seek release date for man after conviction overturned in Etan Patz disappearance case

Lawyers for a man whose conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz was recently overturned asked a judge on Tuesday to set a date for his release from prison if prosecutors don’t decide soon to hold a new trial

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66 h. ago Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in healthcare CEO killing

Attorneys push to drop death penalty eligibility due to legal threshold and claim Mangione was not read his rightsLawyers for Luigi Mangione, accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December, asked a federal judge on Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count on he could be eligible for the death penalty.In a court filing, attorneys for Mangione said the death penalty must be dismissed because it does not meet the legal threshold. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Luigi Mangione's lawyers seek dismissal of federal charges in assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione say a New York federal judge should dismiss criminal charges, including a death-eligible count, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive

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4 d. ago Middle school teacher jailed for raping a student is killed in prison by his murderer cellmate, officials say

Ernest Nichols, 60, was convicted of rape in 2011 and set to be released in 2027

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5 d. ago Teen refugee's harrowing murder caught on CCTV after 'brushing past thug's girlfriend'

Sickening CCTV footage — released by cops after Alfie Franco was convicted of murder — shows him saying something to Ahmad Al Ibrahim and calling him over before pulling a knife out on him

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7 d. ago Shock video shows motorist almost reverse into lorry after missing motorway exit

The near-miss is just one of the 9,775 videos uploaded to Humberside Police's Operation Snap portal since it launched in April 2023 and the force have release footage of recent convictions

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1 week ago The Curse of Frankenstein review – Hammer horror with Lee and Cushing shows how it should be done

Terence Fisher’s crisply told 1957 classic is unencumbered with good taste and delivered with absolute convictionGuillermo del Toro is just about to release his epic new Frankenstein adaptation, swathed in self-conscious artistry and mythic self-importance. But this rereleased 1957 Hammer shocker from the screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and the veteran director Terence Fisher, shows the way it should be done – with unpretentious energy and sly macabre gusto. In vivid Eastmancolor, it’s a film electrified with its own melodramatic crassness, unencumbered with good taste and certainly uninterested in making either Frankenstein or his creature in any way tragically sympathetic.Peter Cushing plays the brilliant and fatally hubristic scientist Victor Frankenstein; the young Melvyn Hayes has a notable juve-lead role in flashback as the supercilious young Victor. Working with his sorrowingly reluctant colleague and former tutor Paul (Robert Urquhart), Frankenstein secretly constructs a new hum...

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2 w. ago Charlie Kirk shooting: suspect’s lawyer requests time to examine ‘voluminous’ evidence

Lawyers representing murder accused seek more time before deciding if they will push for preliminary hearing An attorney for the 22-year-old man charged with killing Charlie Kirk asked a judge Monday for more time to review the large amount of evidence in the case before deciding if the defense will seek a preliminary hearing.A preliminary hearing would determine if there is enough evidence against Tyler Robinson to go forward with a trial. Defendants can waive that step, but Robinson’s newly appointed attorney Kathryn Nester said her team did not intend to do so. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Memphis police launch manhunt for convicted murderer released on technicality

When Anthony Green was convicted of murder Wednesday, his $500,000 bond was revoked, according to local news

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3 w. ago Sean 'Diddy' Combs asks judge for release on time served for prostitution conviction

The lawyers made their arguments in a written submission to Judge Arun Subramanian, who has already rejected a proposed $50 million bail package.

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3 w. ago Lucy Letby could 'meet tragic end' in prison as expert calls for her to be freed

As a crowd of supporters grow in favour of releasing the convicted baby-killer, an expert warns that prison may provide an early demise for former nurse Lucy Letby

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3 w. ago Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek to bar possibility of death penalty in federal case

Lawyers argue authorities prejudiced the case against Mangione by turning arrest into a ‘Marvel movie’ spectacleLuigi Mangione’s lawyers urged a judge on Saturday to bar federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, arguing that authorities prejudiced the case against him by turning his arrest into a “Marvel movie” spectacle and by publicly declaring their desire to see him executed.Fresh from a legal victory that eliminated terrorism charges in Mangione’s state murder case, his lawyers are now fighting to have his federal case dismissed, seizing on US attorney general Pam Bondi’s declaration prior to his April indictment that capital punishment is warranted for a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Female prison officer, 23, who travelled 175 miles to have sex with convicted drug dealer out on home release is spared jail

Megan Breen, 23, from Newport, Gwent, initially denied the fling with the unnamed prisoner but later admitted to having the illicit affair behind bars.

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3 w. ago Convicted killer was released from prison for murder, then did it again

Direece Roche was just 16 when he committed his first murder

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4 w. ago Prosecutors say they'll ask US Supreme Court to restore conviction in Etan Patz missing child case

Prosecutors say they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz after an appeals court overturned the verdict in July

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4 w. ago Christian Brueckner '100%' involved in Maddie McCann kidnap, ex

Helge Busching said in an interview ahead of Christian Brueckner's release that he was '100% sure' the convicted paedophile was involved in Madeleine McCann's kidnapping

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