Mugshot of the Day: Bill Cosby
Posted: December 30, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: ABC News, Arraignment, Bill Cosby, Brazos County, drugs, Indecent assault, Jury, Mug shot, Mugshot, Plea, Rape Charges, Sentence (law), Sexual assault, Temple University, The Cosby Show 1 Comment
Bill Cosby Arraigned for Alleged Aggravated Indecent Assault
Michael Rothmans reports: Bill Cosby arrived in court today after he was charged with alleged aggravated indecent assault earlier this morning by the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office in Pennsylvania.
After court, Cosby headed to the Cheltenham Police Department, where his mugshot was taken and he was processed.
The comedian, 78, entered the courtroom in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, around 2:30 p.m., walking arm-in-arm with his legal team. He will next appear in court on Jan. 14 and his bail was set at $1 million for the second-degree felony counts against him.
“We examined all the evidence and we made this determination because it was the right thing to do.”
— First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele
Cosby’s passport was also turned over to the court and he did not enter a plea.
The famed comedian has always maintained his innocence since being accused more than 10 years ago by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand of sexual assault. With that case about to reach the statute of limitations next month, First Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele said his office had decided to proceed with the second-degree felony charge. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Boston Bomber Apologizes, Admits Guilt for Deadly 2013 Attack
Posted: June 24, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: al Qaeda, Boston, Boston Marathon, Cambridge, Dormitory, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Massachusetts, Scott Malone, Sentence (law), United States federal judge 1 Comment
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday apologized for the deadly 2013 attack at a hearing at which he was to be formally sentenced to death.
“I am sorry for the lives I have taken, for the suffering that I have caused you, for the damage I have done, irreparable damage,” Tsarnaev, 21, told a federal court.
“I am sorry for the lives I have taken, for the suffering that I have caused you, for the damage I have done, irreparable damage…In case there is any doubt, I am guilty of this attack, along with my brother.”
It was the first time that the ethnic Chechen, who did not speak in his own defense during his trial, had addressed the court.
“In case there is any doubt, I am guilty of this attack, along with my brother,” Tsarnaev said, standing at the defense table. Read the rest of this entry »
The Usual Suspects: Putin Critic Alexei Navalny and Brother ‘Found Guilty’ of Fraud
Posted: December 30, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Russia | Tags: Alexey Navalny, fraud, Judiciary of Russia, Kremlin, Money laundering, Moscow, RUSSIA, Sentence (law), State media, Suspended sentence 1 Comment
MOSCOW, Dec. 30 (UPI) — Prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny and his brother, Oleg, were found guilty of fraud and sentenced Tuesday.
The Navalny brothers were found guilty of embezzling 26.7 million rubles ($470,000) from cosmetics
company Yves Rocher Vostok and stealing more than 4.4 million rubles ($80,000) from a processing company between 2008 and 2013.
Critics have called the charges politically motivated. Alexei, an anti-corruption blogger and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has maintained his innocence.
The judge on Tuesday gave Alexei a suspended sentence of three years and six months while Oleg was sentenced to prison for the same amount of time.
Alexei yelled angrily as the sentence against his brother was read in the courtroom.
The brothers were also ordered to pay a fine of more than 4 million rubles ($70,000) to the Multi-Profile Processing Company. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Amanda Knox Found Guilty
Posted: January 30, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Global | Tags: Amanda Knox, Appellate court, Italy, Knox, murder, Murder of Meredith Kercher, Perugia, Sentence (law) 1 Comment
The judge sentenced Knox to 28 years in prison. Her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito and co-defendant was sentenced to 25 years.
The prison sentence was even stiffer than her first sentence in 2009 when she was given a 24 year prison sentence.
The prosecutor had asked for a 26 year prison term for the murder for Knox and Sollecito, plus another four years for Knox on a related libel conviction.
Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison
Posted: August 21, 2013 Filed under: War Room | Tags: al Qaeda, American Civil Liberties Union, Bradley Manning, CNN, Espionage Act of 1917, Manning, Military discharge, Sentence (law) Leave a comment
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., before a sentencing hearing in his court martial. Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP
After more than three years already spent in confinement while awaiting trial, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today for what has been described as the largest ever leak of classified government documents.
Manning, who is 25 years old, had been facing 90 years, and prosecutors had asked the judge to sentence him to a minimum of 60 years in prison, arguing that the leaks endangered lives and interfered with the government’s diplomatic efforts.
“There may not be a soldier in the history of the Army who displayed such an extreme disregard” for his mission, the prosecutor, Capt. Joe Morrow, said in court on Monday, according to CNN. Manning “felt he alone was knowledgeable and intelligent enough to determine what information was to be classified.”
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