One of the ten Americans released from Venezuela last week in a prisoner swap was a convicted killer serving a 30-year sentence, Spanish and Venezuelan officials have confirmed. Dahud Hanid Ortiz was jailed in Venezuela for the 2016 murder of three people inside a Madrid law office. As per Spanish interior minister, the 54-year-old Ortiz, […]
Minnesota state Senator Nicole Mitchell will be stepping down from her post by early August after being convicted on felony burglary charges, her lawyer confirmed on Monday. The Democratic lawmaker, who was found guilty last week of first-degree burglary and possessing burglary tools, will remain in office until 4 August to complete her legislative duties […]
Pedro Bravo and Christian Aguilar (Photo: X) A decade after being convicted of murdering his high school best friend, Pedro Bravo attempted to overturn his life sentence through a complex scheme involving false testimony and secret communications — a plan that ultimately ended in failure, a confession, and Bravo’s death.Bravo was serving a life sentence […]
A New York judge declared a mistrial Thursday on the remaining rape charge against Harvey Weinstein after a heated dispute inside the jury room prompted the jury foreperson to refuse further participation in deliberations.“Deliberations became heated to such a degree I am obligated to declare a mistrial on the one count on which you didn’t […]
A British man who served 38 years in prison for murder had his conviction overturned on Tuesday after forensic evidence from the crime scene was tested and found not to match his DNA. The man, Peter Sullivan, 68, is thought to be the victim of the country’s longest miscarriage of justice involving a living prisoner. […]
A senior judge who worked for the United Nations as well as Uganda’s High Court has been sentenced to six years and four months in prison after she was convicted of enslaving a young woman to work as a maid in the United Kingdom.The Oxford Crown Court found that Lydia Mugambe had taken “advantage of […]
