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Grief author Kouri Richins who 'murdered her husband' shares ridiculous new qualifications as she demands jail release
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Grief author Kouri Richins who 'murdered her husband' shares ridiculous new qualifications as she demands jail release

Daily Mail  

A Utah mother-of-three who stands accused of murdering her husband and then writing a children's book about grief has shared ridiculous new qualifications as she petitions a judge to be let out on bail ahead of her trial. Richins has also been accepted into California Coat University's Online Masters of Business Administration program and enrolled in paralegal studies, her attorneys …

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Appeals court orders release of woman whose murder conviction was reversed after 43 years in prison
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Appeals court orders release of woman whose murder conviction was reversed after 43 years in prison

Associated Press  

— An appellate court has ordered the release of a Missouri woman whose murder conviction was overturned after she served 43 years in prison, but the state attorney general is still trying to keep her behind bars as the case is reviewed. Monday’s ruling by a panel of appeals court judges comes after a judge ruled that Sandra Hemme’s attorneys …

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Missouri attorney general says not so fast on freeing woman jailed for 43 years in 1980 killing
6 months ago

Missouri attorney general says not so fast on freeing woman jailed for 43 years in 1980 killing

Associated Press  

Missouri top prosecutor asked a court Tuesday to put the brakes on releasing a woman from prison in a 1980 killing that her attorneys allege was committed by a now-discredited police officer. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey also said his office will ask the state appeals court to review a judge’s ruling last week that found Sandra Hemme’s attorneys had …

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Missouri woman’s murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it
6 months, 1 week ago

Missouri woman’s murder conviction tossed after 43 years. Her lawyers say a police officer did it

Associated Press  

A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing that her attorneys argue was actually committed by a now-discredited police officer. They alleged in a petition seeking her exoneration that authorities ignored Hemme’s “wildly contradictory” statements and suppressed evidence implicating Michael Holman, a then-police officer who …

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Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity
1 year ago

Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday. “Jane Doe sought an abortion in Kentucky, and when she could not get one, she bravely came forward to challenge the state’s abortion ban,” ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project deputy …

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Missouri woman imprisoned for 42 years to get court hearing that could lead to release
1 year, 6 months ago

Missouri woman imprisoned for 42 years to get court hearing that could lead to release

Associated Press  

— A Missouri woman who has spent more than four decades in prison for a murder her supporters believe she did not commit will get a court hearing that could lead to her release. The Missouri attorney general’s office has agreed to an evidentiary hearing for Sandra Hemme, 63, who was convicted of murder in the Nov. 12, 1980, killing …

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Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s drug smuggling conviction
2 years, 1 month ago

Russian court upholds Brittney Griner’s drug smuggling conviction

CNN  

CNN — A judge in Russia has left Brittney Griner’s verdict in place, upholding on Tuesday the US basketball star’s conviction on drug smuggling charges and reducing only slightly her nine-year prison sentence. “I really hope the court will adjust this sentence,” she said before the judgment, “because it has been very, very stressful and very traumatic to my mental …

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Nurse’s car reached 130 mph before fiery L.A. crash that left 5 dead, court documents allege
2 years, 3 months ago

Nurse’s car reached 130 mph before fiery L.A. crash that left 5 dead, court documents allege

LA Times  

Nicole Linton is arraigned Aug. 8 in Los Angeles County Superior Court on murder charges in connection with the Windsor Hills crash that killed five people, including a pregnant woman. The motion, filed by the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office in response to claims by the nurse’s attorneys that she had lost consciousness before the collision, states that Nicole …

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Brittney Griner is sentenced to nine years in Russian prison
2 years, 4 months ago

Brittney Griner is sentenced to nine years in Russian prison

Daily Mail  

Brittney Griner has been sentenced to nine years in Russian prison for bringing a marijuana pen into the country in February. Brittney Griner holds up a team photo showing her playing with UMMC Ekaterinburg, the Russian team she spent off-seasons with to bolster her WNBA earnings 'Russia became my second home. The State Department had been in talks to secure …

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Melissa Lucio: Calls mount for mercy for Texas death row inmate
2 years, 8 months ago

Melissa Lucio: Calls mount for mercy for Texas death row inmate

CNN  

CNN — The family and advocates of the only Hispanic woman on Texas’ death row are fighting to stop her looming execution, arguing she was wrongfully convicted of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter in 2007. “Now that trauma has come home.” Lucio’s impending execution would follow a long series of traumatic events for her family, according to her son, …

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Trevor Bauer’s accuser asks court to void subpoena, end his ‘witch hunt’
2 years, 8 months ago

Trevor Bauer’s accuser asks court to void subpoena, end his ‘witch hunt’

LA Times  

Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer is engaging in a “witch hunt” against the woman who accused him of sexual assault by pursuing an “unauthorized subpoena” for her cellphone records, attorneys for the woman argued in a court filing Friday. In asking a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to throw out the subpoena, the attorneys claimed Bauer continues to fight in a …

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Sarah Palin tests positive for COVID, delaying trial against 'New York Times'
2 years, 11 months ago

Sarah Palin tests positive for COVID, delaying trial against 'New York Times'

NPR  

Sarah Palin tests positive for COVID, delaying trial against 'New York Times' Enlarge this image toggle caption Cliff Owen/AP Cliff Owen/AP Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, scheduled to open Monday, was pushed back until at least Feb. 3 after her attorneys informed the presiding judge that she tested positive for COVID-19. He disqualified an expert witness …

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Judge dismisses murder charge against Central Valley woman whose baby was stillborn
3 years, 7 months ago

Judge dismisses murder charge against Central Valley woman whose baby was stillborn

LA Times  

A judge on Thursday dismissed a murder charge against a Central Valley woman who prosecutors said delivered a stillborn baby after using methamphetamine, ruling the prosecution failed to present adequate evidence to support the accusation. Kings County Superior Court Judge Robert S. Burns on Thursday granted a motion by Becker’s attorneys to set aside the charge entirely, finding that prosecutors …

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