Karen Read faces charges that she struck the man she loved with her car and left him to die in the cold, but defense attorneys say the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe is anything but her fault.
Instead, the defense team’s recent court filings blatantly state, police should be looking to two others present at the party for culpability in O’Keefe’s death.
“Ms. Read’s defense is predicated, in no small part, on a third-party culpability of defense,” wrote defense attorney Alan Jackson, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who joined the team last September, in an affidavit filed on April…
House Republicans and the Manhattan district attorney’s office reached an agreement on Friday to end a legal dispute over a House judicial committee inquiry into former US president Donald Trump’s historic indictment.
Under the agreement, committee members will be able to question former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz under oath next month in Washington, resolving a lawsuit in which District Attorney Alvin Bragg had sought to block Pomerantz from testing.
Among the committee’s concessions, Pomerantz will be accompanied by a lawyer from Bragg’s office, which is not typically allowed in congressional deposits.
Bragg’s office and the judicial committee reached the agreement after…
Through his arrest, at age 19, for a murder in South LA, through the trial where he received a sentence of 72 years to life, and through fruitless appeals, Abel Soto maintained his innocence.
In 2020, after he had been in prison for more than a dozen years, his family and friends set out to hire a lawyer who would prove once and for all that he was wrongfully convicted.
They went with Aaron Spolin — a Soto decision and his supporters would come to deeply regret it. Rather than thoroughly investigating his case to turn up exonerating evidence, Spolin…
An attorney for actor Jonathan Majors on Wednesday denied a new report of allegations of abuse by the Marvel star.
Citing sources familiar with the matter, Variety reported Wednesday that additional allegations of abuse victims came forward and are co-operating with the Manhattan district attorney’s office after the actor was arrested and arraigned last month on assault and harassment charges in March following an alleged domestic dispute in New York.
When reached by CNN Wednesday night, a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney declined to comment. CNN has not been able to independently confirm additional alleged victims have come forward.…
This post was authored by Matthew Loescher, Esq.
Representatives of the City of Paris, Kentucky, applied for a zoning map amendment to rezone the 47 acres of property from a conservation district to light industrial. The Paris City Commission and its representatives entered into a non-disclosure deal with a prospective corporate purchaser to conceal its identity. A bourbon distillery was to be built on the property, but the local Planning and Zoning Commission held a hearing during which evidence was presented, and then voted six to three to deny the zone map amendment. The Planning Commission was overruled by a…
Attorneys for Hunter Biden are set to meet with a career Justice Department official and the US attorney for Delaware next week at the request of the president’s son’s legal team, according to two individuals familiar with the situation.
David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware, and an appointee of former President Donald Trump, has been overseeing an investigation into the president’s son since at least 2019. The probe has examined possible crimes related to his taxes and made a false statement when purchasing a gun, sources familiar with the investigation previously told CBS News.
Biden has not been charged…
st. LOUIS — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner responded Friday to a judge’s threat to hold her in contempt of court by blaming an attorney for not telling her office he had a trial slated to begin while he was on leave.The filing says prosecutor Alex Polta, who has been on approved leave since early April, failed to warn Gardner’s office about a murder trial that was set to begin last Monday.No one attended the first day of trial in Polta’s place, and Judge Scott A. Millikan filed an order for Gardner’s office to show cause…
This post was authored by Julie Tappendorf and Tyler Smith of Ancel Glink and originally posted in the Municipal Minute and reposted with permission
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled against a billboard company in its First Amendment challenge to a county’s sign code. GEFT Outdoors, LLC v. Monroe County.
A billboard company sought to install a digital billboard which did not comply with the county’s sign code regulations. The company applied for a variance from the County’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BZOA). After the BZOA denied the variance request, the billboard company sued the county under a…