Justin Cole Carroll, left inset, was found guilty of the 2021 murder of Donasia Alexus Holloway, right inset. (Photos from Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor’s Office) A South Carolina man who ignored a no-contact order and stalked and shot his ex-girlfriend dead in a parking lot while out on bail for domestic violence against her as she filmed him on Snapchat moments before the bloodshed was sentenced to 60 years in prison. Justin Cole Carroll, 24, was sentenced after being found guilty of the 2021 murder of Donasia Alexus Holloway, prosecutors announced in a news release. Related Coverage: The v ..read more

Philip Chism in court. (Courtroom screenshot from WBZ/YouTube) A Massachusetts man serving a life sentence for raping, strangling and stabbing his algebra teacher with a box cutter when he was 14 in 2013 pleaded guilty this week to a separate assault of a state youth services worker when he was awaiting trial back then in the murder case. Philip Chism, now 25, pleaded guilty in Boston Juvenile Court on Friday to charges of attempted murder, assault with intent to murder, assault with a dangerous weapon — a cinder block wall — and kidnapping in the attack of the then 29-year-old female worker ..read more

Former paramedic Jeremy Cooper, who injected Elijah McClain with ketamine before his death, wipes his eyes as he speaks in court during his sentencing, Friday, April 26, 2024, in Brighton, Colo. Cooper was convicted last year of criminally negligent homicide in the Black man’s death, which helped fuel the 2020 social justice protests. (ABC News One/Pool via AP; McClain’s photo Law&Crime file) An ex-Colorado paramedic received probation after his conviction for criminally negligent homicide for injecting a heavy dose of ketamine into an unarmed Black man during a police stop in 2019 ..read more

A Tesla Model 3 is seen in Fremont, Calif., on Monday, February 12, 2018. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via AP; Musk inset image, Law&Crime File) A conservative federal judge in Texas known for repeatedly ruling that Obamacare was unconstitutional granted Elon Musk a discovery win in the X owner’s self-described “thermonuclear lawsuit” against Media Matters, the liberal group that accused the social media company of placing major brands’ ads “next to content that touts Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party.” Before Musk filed the federal lawsuit, he promised that it would be “thermonucle ..read more

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, center left, and son Eric Trump walk near the first hole during the final round of LIV Golf Miami, at Trump National Doral Golf Club, Sunday, April 7, 2024, in Doral, Fla. Pictured in background center is valet Walt Nauta. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) The Special Counsel’s Office on Friday urged the Mar-a-Lago judge to neither throw out the case against former President Donald Trump’s valet and co-defendant nor allow Walt Nauta to pursue discovery based on claims, “without merit,” that prosecutors are treating him differently f ..read more

Hunter Biden (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite), Garrett Ziegler talks Hunter Biden on YouTube (YouTube/Reporter.London screengrab) A federal judge on Friday declined to force the recusal of a fellow Joe Biden-appointed colleague in Hunter Biden’s “hacking” lawsuit against a former policy analyst in the Trump White House, writing that the effort failed just like the former president failed to remove a Clinton appointee from the never successful Trump v. Clinton RICO case. U.S. District Judge Hernan Vera was the target of Garrett Ziegler’s recusal motion, which reasoned that Vera’s status as a 20 ..read more

Left: Judge Juan Merchan poses for a picture in his chambers in New York, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Merchan is presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case in New York (AP Photo/Seth Wenig). Right: FILE – Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom, April 4, 2023, in New York (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File). Under New York law, a criminal defendant has a right to know before trial what prior crimes or acts the prosecution intends to cross examine the defendant about if he or she elects to testify. The trial court will then hold what is called a Sandoval hearing, named after a 19 ..read more

John Earl Sullivan filmed the rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Background photos from federal court documents; Inset mug shot from Tooele County Sheriff’s Department via screenshot from WUSA/YouTube) A Utah man authorities said advocated for a violent government dismantling was sentenced to six years in federal prison after he stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, with a knife and a megaphone. John Earl Sullivan, 29, was sentenced to 72 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced i ..read more

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Rudy Giuliani on Friday asked a federal judge in New York City to modify the stay of his bankruptcy case to allow him to appeal the $148 million defamation verdict won by former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea’ “Shaye” Moss. In a 15-page filing, attorney Gary Fischoff asked U.S. Bankruptcy Sean Lane to modify a stay previously issued in February “for the limited purpose” of being able “to prosecute and perfect” their case before th ..read more

FILE — In this June 8, 2021 file photo Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announces, in Santa Ana, Calif., charges filed against suspects Marcus Eriz and Wynne Lee in the death of Aiden Leos, right, the 6-year-old boy who was shot and killed on his way to kindergarten in his mother’s car. (Mark Rightmire/The Orange County Register via AP) A California woman who pleaded guilty in connection with the road rage shooting death of a 6-year-old boy killed in his car seat while riding in his mother’s car to kindergarten will not do any jail time after getting more credits for time served ..read more