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Attorneys for ‘Rust’ armorer say she was pressured to work in an unsafe environment

  • August 25, 2024
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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Attorney Tries to Bend the Arc Toward Justice in Florida Killing

  • August 14, 2024
Crosley Green wears an ankle bracelet at all times. He goes to work and church but otherwise remains under house arrest in central Florida, convicted of a 1989 murder he says he didn’t commit. Keith Harrison believes him, with all his being. They first crossed paths nearly 15 years ago, when Harrison’s colleague at Crowell & Moring told him about Green, whose case they discovered through an American Bar Association program that helps death penalty defendants find lawyers. Harrison was immediately interested; soon he was visiting Green on Florida’s death row. “I thought the evidence of his innocence was overwhelming,”…
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Fox News settles lawsuits brought by former employee for $12 million, attorney says

  • July 1, 2023
She accused Fox News of fostering a “toxic atmosphere victimizing women.” Fox News has settled a pair of lawsuits brought by a former employee for $12 million, according to a statement issued on Friday by the employee’s attorney, marking the latest settlement for the network as it faces a series of legal challenges. Former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, a senior booker who worked with Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson, had filed two lawsuits accusing the network of fostering a “toxic atmosphere victimizing women” and claiming its legal team “coerced, intimidated, and misinformed” her as it battled the lawsuit brought…
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IA Court of Appeals Affirms Granting of Exception Allowing for Converted Church in Residential Area to be Used for Small Gathering Space

  • June 29, 2023
This post was authored by Tyler Doan, Esq. The petitioner initially contested the grant of an exception to the local zoning ordinance to allow a converted church in a single-family residence area to be used as “small gathering space” for community events such as bridal and baby showers and class reunions. After a public hearing, the Board of Adjustments granted the exception. The Petitioner then filed a petition for writ of certiorari challenging the board’s decision. The district court concluded the board “did not act illegally in granting the exception.” The Petitioner then appealed to the present court arguing a…
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The Justice Department should investigate beatings at Georgia jail, attorney says

  • June 5, 2023
SAVANNAH, Ga. — An attorney for two men whose beatings by guards were recorded by security cameras at a county jail in Georgia called Wednesday for the US Justice Department to investigate what he called a systemic pattern of sheriff’s officers abusing detainees. “They are beating people indiscriminately inside this jail,” civil rights attorney Harry Daniels told reporters at a news conference outside the Camden County Sheriff’s Office, about 95 miles (152 kilometers) south of Savannah. Daniels represents Jarrett Hobbs, a 41-year-old Black man booked into the Camden County jail for a traffic violation and drug possession charges on Sept.…
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State attorney’s office to seek death penalty against Keith Moses

  • May 24, 2023
The Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office announced it will seek the death penalty against Keith Moses. Moses, 19, is accused of going on a fatal one-day shooting spree in the Pine Hills neighborhood back in February, killing three people. the shooting spree are Natacha Augustin, Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons, and 9-year-old T’Yonna Major. Major’s mother, Brandi, was also shot but survived, as well as Spectrum News 13 photographer Jesse Walden. State Attorney Monique Worrell sent out a letter Friday afternoon to explain her office’s decision to seek the death penalty against Moses. Worrrell says in her letter she is…
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Farmington, New Mexico shooting: Attorneys for another man’s family and the officer who went to the wrong address and shot him giving dueling accounts

  • May 6, 2023
CNN — Depending on who you ask, the late-night shooting that killed Robert Dotson was either a “justified” use of force by the New Mexico police or a “murderous” act by officers who responded to the wrong house. Attorneys for both sides have given dueling narratives of what happened around 11:30 pm April 5, when three Farmington police officers responded to the incorrect address for a domestic violence call. Police bodycam footage shows officers standing outside the front door of Dotson’s home, asking a dispatcher to confirm the house number. After no one answered the door, the police started walking…
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Defense attorneys in Karen Read case point to others they say are culpable in the death of John O’Keefe

  • May 4, 2023
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…