A protester who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of an elderly Jewish man during a 2023 demonstration in California over the war in Gaza was sentenced this week to one year in county jail, ...

Hollywood writer-director Carl Rinsch was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million for a never-finished sci-fi series. Supporters ...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced China critic and tycoon Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for racketeering and fraud and ordered forfeiture of $889 million associated with his activities. The ...

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Hollywood filmmaker Carl Rinsch will be serving prison time for a multi-million dollar scheme against Netflix. New York judge Jed S. Rakoff sentenced Rinsch to 30 months behind bars followed by three ...

Louisiana’s Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court decision overturning a Ouachita Parish man’s death sentence, ruling that the man’s conviction 28 years ago rested on discredited science that ...

As Brenda Andrew sat quietly in an Oklahoma courtroom, a prosecutor held up a pair of her thong underwear for jurors. Would a grieving widow really wear such a sexy undergarment, he asked them? The ...

A self-exiled billionaire Chinese business tycoon once believed to be among China’s wealthiest men was sentenced Monday to 30 years in a US prison for a massive financial fraud that a federal judge ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a death warrant for Dominick Occhicone one day after another prisoner became the oldest person put to death in the state. Dominick Occhicone sits in court during a 1997 ...

A federal judge has sentenced an Austin man to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl that resulted in a man's death, according to a news release Thursday from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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