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New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a western movie, the Santa Fe district attorney’s office announced Monday. CBC | World News
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Judge dismisses election interference case against Donald Tump at prosecutors’ request
Special counsel Jack Smith moved to abandon two criminal cases against U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Monday, acknowledging that his return to the White House will preclude attempts to federally prosecute him for retaining classified documents or trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat. CBC | World News
Read More »Prosecutors in Gisèle Pelicot case seek 20 years for then-husband who organized her mass rape
French prosecutors have asked for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who organized the repeated mass rape of his then-wife by knocking her unconscious with drugs and inviting dozens of strangers to abuse her in the family home. CBC | World News
Read More »Court overturns Jussie Smollett’s conviction in 2019 alleged attack that prosecutors said was staged
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in downtown Chicago in 2019 and lied to police. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. prosecutors dismiss sex abuse case against actor Nathan Chasing Horse
U.S. federal prosecutors in Nevada have quietly dismissed a long-dormant sex abuse case against Nathan Chasing Horse, though the former Dances with Wolves actor still faces criminal charges elsewhere. CBC | World News
Read More »L.A. prosecutors review new evidence in case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, D.A. says
Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine whether they should be serving life sentences for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion more than 35 years ago, the city’s district attorney said Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump acted outside his duties in pressuring Pence, officials after 2020 election loss: prosecutors
U.S. prosecutors said Donald Trump was acting outside the scope of his duties as president when he pressured state officials and then-U.S. vice president Mike Pence to try to overturn his 2020 election defeat, in a court filing made public on Wednesday. CBC | World News
Read More »Sean (Diddy) Combs faces criminal indictment in New York, prosecutors say
Rapper and hip-hop mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs was arrested late Monday in New York, where he faces a sealed criminal indictment, prosecutors announced late Monday. CBC | World News
Read More »British prosecutors decline to prosecute Harvey Weinstein over alleged 1990s incident
Britains’s Crown Prosecution Service, which in 2022 authorized two charges of indecent assault against movie producter Harvey Weinstein, said Thursday there was ‘no longer a realistic prospect of conviction’ in the case. Weinstein, convicted in Los Angeles, also faces retrial in a New York case. CBC | World News
Read More »Hannah died alone in her cabin, say experts as prosecutors open manslaughter case
Harrowing details of passengers’ last moments revealed as authorities launch manslaughter probe Daily Express :: News Feed
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