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Trump is rushing to hire seasoned lawyers — but he keeps hearing ‘No’
The former president’s current legal team includes a Florida insurance lawyer who’s never had a federal case, a past general counsel for a parking garage company and a former host at far-right One America News.
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Trump's Lawyers Are Preparing Legal Defenses Against Criminal Charges
Donald Trump’s lawyers are preemptively preparing a legal defense against criminal charges from the Justice Department, as the former president’s lawyers are increasingly anxious that their client will be prosecuted for his role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Nipsey Hussle Shooter Found Guilty of Murder
The Los Angeles rapper was killed by Eric R. Holder Jr. in front of his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles in March of 2019
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The Only One Setting Back Abuse Survivors Is Amber Heard (And The Media That Propped Her Up)
Johnny Depp has finally won his defamation case against Amber Heard. The jury decided that he proved Amber Heard intentionally defamed him with malice on every count and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
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Right-Wing Supreme Court Tacitly Approved the Execution of Innocent People
Now people who had incompetent lawyers aren’t entitled to present evidence of their innocence in federal court.
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U.S. lawyer Avenatti sentenced to four years prison for defrauding Stormy Daniels
Michael Avenatti, the brash California lawyer who once took on then-President Donald Trump, was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for defrauding his best-known former client, the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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Three Georgia men sentenced to life in prison for 'chilling' Arbery murder
A Georgia judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for what he called the "chilling" 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man running through their mostly white neighborhood in the southern U.S. state.
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USA Gymnastics and USOPC reach $380m settlement with Nassar abuse survivors
Survivors of disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar have reached a $380m settlement after a five-year legal battle
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Making Elizabeth Holmes’ cringey texts public is the ultimate crime deterrent
I can’t do crimes because I can’t have my texts read aloud in court.
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Los Angeles jurors convict Robert Durst of killing friend in 2000
His friend and confidant Susan Berman was fatally shot in her home shortly before she was going to be interviewed by police.
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Mexico sues US gunmakers in unprecedented bid to stop weapons crossing border
The Mexican government has launched legal action against US gunmakers in an unprecedented attempt to halt the flow of guns across the border, where US-made weapons are routinely used in cartel gun-battles, terror attacks on civilians – and increasingly to challenge the state itself.
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Britney Spears' Lawyer Files Request For New Conservator Of Her Money
Attorney Mathew Rosengart, who began representing the pop singer a week and a half ago, wants someone new to look after Spears' estate. For the past 13 years, it's been controlled by her father.
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New "bombshell" motion in "Making a Murderer" case points finger at someone else Steven Avery knew
A witness has emerged who claims he saw two people moving the victim's car, but this info had been buried
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Former TV personality Rudy Kalis and other Nashville notables fight for death row inmate
Nashville's first Muslim council member joins a rabbi, a Democratic fundraiser and the chair of the state House GOP Caucus in advocating for Pervis Payne
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Secret misconduct records of 83,000 New York cops were made public over the objection of police unions
Access to the records, one expert said, could help squash the "wandering-officer phenomenon."
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Man sues Hertz over receipt that cleared him of murder
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man who spent nearly five years in custody is suing a car rental company for failing to produce in a timely manner a receipt that would have proved his innocence
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For Prosecutors, Trump’s Clemency Decisions Were a ‘Kick in the Teeth’
Commutations in high-profile Medicare fraud cases have elicited anger among those who spent years pursuing complex prosecutions.
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Parler videos of Capitol attack assembled into timeline
Over 500 videos taken as rioters stormed the Capitol building have been arranged in chronological order and can be scrolled through by users. ProPublica published the interactive timeline using videos sourced from Parler, the social network favoured by supporters of the president, which was also gathering users’ GPS data.
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Why 4,998 died in U.S. jails before their day in court
The U.S. government collects data on who’s dying in which jails around the country – but won’t let anyone see it. So, Reuters conducted its own tally.
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What We Know About the Allegations of Forced Hysterectomies at an ICE Facility in Georgia
Whistleblower allegations of forced hysterectomies leave troubling questions and reveal a system ripe for abuse
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