4 h. ago Major spike in trials sparks calls for more courts amid fears of victim impact

Growing concerns over waits as courts deal with increasingly complex cases

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43 h. ago Letitia James pleads not guilty in Virginia mortgage fraud case

New York attorney general appears in court in Virginia in case brought after Trump called for her prosecutionThe New York state attorney general, Letitia James, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of bank fraud and false statements brought after Donald Trump publicly called for her to be prosecuted in a move widely seen as political retribution.“Not guilty judge to both counts,” James told the judge as she made her first appearance in federal district court in Virginia. The case has been assigned to Judge Jamar Walker, who was nominated by Joe Biden. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Letitia James expected to plead not guilty in mortgage fraud case

New York attorney general to appear in court in Virginia in case brought after Trump called for her prosecutionThe New York state attorney general, Letitia James, is expected to plead not guilty on Friday to charges of bank fraud and false statements brought after Donald Trump publicly called for her to be prosecuted in a move widely seen as political retribution.James is scheduled to made her first appearance in the case and be arraigned in federal district court in Virginia before US magistrate judge Jamar Walker at 11am ET, according to court documents. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Paedophile called Lucifer cries in court as he is jailed for five years

The court heard Lucifer Hunter had a thing for young girls in tights and pretended to be a schoolboy online

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3 d. ago Paedophile called Lucifer abused girls as young as 10 then cried in court

The court heard Lucifer Hunter had a thing for young girls in tights and pretended to be a schoolboy online

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3 d. ago Man strangled pregnant partner to point she thought she was going to die

The victim said: 'I feared for my life. I thought I was going to die. I was carrying his child at the time. It’s absolutely sickening'

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5 d. ago Nicholas Rossi: US fugitive who faked his own death and fled to Scotland jailed for rape

One victim said Rossi had left a “trail of fear, pain and destruction” behind him.

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5 d. ago Oregon governor urges Trump national guard ruling to be overturned

Tina Kotek calls for ‘en banc’ review after three-judge panel permits US president to send federal troops to PortlandOregon governor Tina Kotek, has called on a federal appeals court to review and overturn a decision made by a three-judge panel on Monday that would permit Donald Trump to deploy federalized national guard troops to the streets of Portland against the wishes of state and local officials.Kotek said that she hopes the full ninth circuit court of appeals vacates the panel’s 2-1 decision, as the dissenting judge, Portland-based Susan Graber, urged her colleagues to do. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Lag brutally attacked fellow inmate who 'threatened his family' in Scots jail

John Callaghan has appeared in court over the assault.

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9 d. ago The US supreme court appears ready to nullify the Voting Rights Act | Moira Donegan

Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatoryThe last remaining piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act – section 2, which empowers the federal government to protect voters from racial gerrymandering meant to dilute Black political power – appears headed for an untimely end. At oral arguments in Louisiana v Callais on Wednesday, the US supreme court appeared ready to strike down section 2, effectively completing the gradual nullification of the Voting Rights Act that it has pursued for over a decade.The case stems from new congressional districting maps that were drawn in Louisiana after the 2020 census, which found both that the state was eligible for six seats in the House of Representatives and that its population was about one-third Black. The state initially drew maps that featured only one majority-Black congressional district, rejecting seven more racially fair maps; voters sued, and federal courts ordered L...

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1 week ago Killer tells girlfriend's family 'do something' in court as he's called a 'maggot'

Michael Ormandy was unanimously found guilty of murdering his 32-year-old girlfriend Rebekah Campbell

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1 week ago Tommy Robinson 'called officer a c***' when asked for his phone pin, court told

Robinson is accused of failing to comply with the Terrorism Act at the Channel Tunnel when asked for his pin, allegedly saying: 'Not a chance bruv... you look like c*** so you ain't having it'

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2 w. ago Poisoning GP's Scot victim feared for life after drinking rat killer

Dad-of-four Torquil Gundlach, from Edinburgh, drank a vodka laced with a rat poison which was banned due to its high toxicity.

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2 w. ago Thomas Kwan: Second victim feared poison plot GP 'could have killed my family'

Dad-of-four Torquil Gundlach spoke for the first time of how he fell ill after drinking a bottle of vodka Kwan laced with thallium, banned as a rat poison due to its high toxicity

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann's sister says her parents installed a panic alarm with direct link to police after Polish 'stalker' turned up at their home and insisted she was Maddie

Julia Wandelt turned up at the McCanns' property amid an alleged stalking campaign, which saw her sending unwanted emails and making numerous phone calls to the family, a court heard.

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2 w. ago GP jailed for plotting to murder mother’s partner with fake Covid jab now admits trying to poison him with wine

Thomas Kwan laced wine with a highly toxic metal called thallium, Newcastle Crown Court heard

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2 w. ago ‘The stakes are quite large’: US supreme court case could gut Voting Rights Act

Court’s decision in Louisiana v Callais could limit voters from challenging racial discriminatory districts The US supreme court is set to hear a case this month that could gut what remains of the Voting Rights Act, effectively killing one of the crown jewels of the civil rights movement and the nation’s most powerful statute to prevent discrimination in voting.The court’s decision in the case, Louisiana v Callais, could be one of the most consequential rulings for the Voting Rights Act since it was enacted in 1965 and is almost certainly the biggest test for the law since its decision in Shelby county v Holder in 2013, when the justices hollowed out a provision of the law, section five, that required certain places to get voting changes approved by the federal government before they go into effect. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kate McCann tells court of stress caused by alleged stalker calling her ‘Mum’

Julia Wandelt is on trial accused of targeting the McCann family with a two-and-a-half-year harassment campaignKate McCann has said it was hard to hear an alleged stalker refer to her as “Mum”, as she gave evidence in the trial of a woman who claimed to be her missing daughter.Speaking from behind a screen, McCann told Leicester crown court she was left frightened and distressed by the actions of Julia Wandelt, 24, who is accused of a two-and-a-half-year harassment campaign. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago White House calls court ruling blocking Portland national guard deployment ‘untethered from reality’ – live

Karoline Leavitt criticizes Trump-appointed judge’s decision; Trump deploying military to Chicago on ‘flimsy pretext’, Illinois lawsuit alleges Illinois sues Trump seeking to block deployment of national guardThe supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes. She was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Six bombshells from court as two women accused of stalking family of Madeleine McCann

It was heard in court how Julia Wandelt, 24 - who believed she was Madeleine - called and messaged Kate McCann '60 times' in a single day, including about her alleged memories of the girl's abduction

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