Attorneys for the “Rust” film armorer charged with involuntary manslaughter Tuesday said she felt “extreme pressure” to work within an irresponsible culture that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed and actor Alec Baldwin were both charged Tuesday with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in New Mexico. First assistant director David Halls has already agreed to plead no contest for the negligent use of a deadly weapon.
Attorney Jason Bowles said Halls “rushed” Gutierrez-Reed “all the time,” which did not allow her to do a full safety check on the gun held by Baldwin that…
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A Virginia sheriff is facing federal fraud and conspiracy charges as the US Justice Department claims he handed out deputy sheriff badges in exchange for money to help fund his election campaign, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Howard Jenkins, 51, and three other Virginia men have been charged with a conspiracy to exchange bribes for law enforcement badges and credentials, the US attorney’s office for the Western District of Virginia said in a statement.
The indictment claims that from at least April 2019, Jenkins accepted cash bribes and bribes in the form of…
An attorney for Hunter Biden on Friday transmitted a sharp and sweeping letter to a powerful Republican lawmaker condemning his handling of an IRS whistleblower who has accused Justice Department officials of undermining the DOJ’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s son.
Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Hunter Biden, accused Rep. Jason Smith, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, of leveraging comments made by an IRS supervisory agent as “an obvious ploy to feed the misinformation campaign to harm our client, Hunter Biden, as a vehicle to attack his father.”
Smith last week released transcripts of the committee’s…
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday made his first public remarks after the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal criminal charges.
Garland, taking questions at an event on combating violent crime, said he couldn’t discuss the particulars of the case but offered general praise to special counsel Jack Smith and his team after being asked about accusations made by Trump and other Republicans that the Justice Department has been “weaponized.”
“As I said when I appointed Mr. Smith, I did so because it underscores the Justice Department’s commitment to both independence and accountability,” the attorney general said.…
Dougherty County, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A Georgia man waiting more than a decade behind bars for his day in court is one step closer to moving his case forward.
On Tuesday, Maurice Jimmerson appeared before a Dougherty County judge to schedule a future trial date. He was joined by Andrew Fleischman, an Atlanta attorney now representing the 32-year-old after hearing about his case on Atlanta News First Investigates this past April.
Arrested for murder in 2013, Jimmerson has spent the past 10 years behind bars, awaiting trial. A jury acquitted two of his co-defendants for the same crime…
This post originally appeared on the Dalton Tomich blog and is reposted with permission from Dan Dalton, Esq, – https://daltontomich.com/the-importance-of-zoning-notice-requirements-under-michigan-law/
in Montrief v. Macon Township Board of Trustees, the plaintiffs-landowners filed suit against the Township alleging an amended zoning ordinance was invalid and unenforceable based on a failure to comply with certain notice requirements.
Under the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act, an enforcing authority, which in most cases is the local government, must provide notice with respect to certain actions taken in zoning matters. Generally, among the most common actions requiring notice are the following:
Authorities must provide notice for public…
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Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill, on Feb. 9 in Washington. House Republicans on Thursday, April 6, subpoenaed one of the former Manhattan prosecutors who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last year in a clash over the direction of the probe. Jordan ordered Mark Pomerantz to testify before the committee by April 30.Carolyn Kaster/The Associated Press
House Republicans and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office reached an agreement Friday to end a legal dispute over a House Judiciary Committee inquiry into…
(WXYZ) — Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger is recovering in the hospital after suffering a stroke, his wife confirmed to 7 Action News.
Fieger’s wife, Keenie, said in a statement that he had an elective procedure to deal with a minor heart arrhythmia on March 1. Afterward, “it was determined that Geoffrey had suffered a stroke.”
It’s unclear at this time how long his recovery will take, his wife said.
“For those of us who know Geoffrey, he’d love to be back to work yesterday. Geoffrey has built a world class TEAM at Fieger Law, and they are continuing the hard…