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Alabama Groups Can Sue Over Threat of Prosecution for Helping With Abortion Travel
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday said abortion rights advocates can proceed with lawsuits against Alabama’s attorney general over threats to prosecute people who help women travel to another state to terminate pregnancies. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson denied Attorney General Steve Marshall’s request to dismiss the case. The groups said Marshall has suggested anti-conspiracy laws could be used to prosecute those who help Alabama women obtain an abortion in another state. The two lawsuits seek a legal ruling clarifying that the state can’t prosecute people for providing such assistance. Alabama bans abortion at any stage of pregnancy with no exceptions for rape and incest. While Thompson did not issue a final ruling, he said the organizations “correctly contend” that the attorney general “cannot constitutionally prosecute people for acts taken within the State meant to facilitate lawful out of state conduct, including obtaining an abortion.” “Alabama can no more restrict people from going to, say, California to engage in what is lawful there than California can restrict people from coming to Alabama …
Appeals Court Hammers Prosecution About FBI Conduct In Whitmer Kidnap Plot
Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The much-anticipated appeal hearing was held Thursday for Barry Croft and Adam Fox, the alleged “ringleaders” of the 2020 militia conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. This combo of images provided by the Kent County, Mich., Jail shows Barry Croft Jr., left, and Adam Fox. / PHOTO: AP Croft and Fox were convicted of plotting to kidnap Whitmer after their second trial in late 2022. At their first trial earlier that year, a jury acquitted two other men while failing to reach a verdict for Croft and Fox. The two men appealed their convictions on multiple grounds. Thursday’s hearing focused largely on the conduct of FBI informants and their handling agents. Oral arguments in appeal of conviction of Adam Fox and Barry Croft–two men entrapped by FBI in Whitmer fednapping hoax–about to begin. Basis of appeal in Fox case. Will cover live: pic.twitter.com/8DbxqFQ0fw — Julie Kelly ???????? (@julie_kelly2) May 2, 2024 Croft’s attorney, Timothy Sweeney, argued that his client should get a retrial because he wasn’t allowed to introduce …
Supreme Court will hear Trump’s claim he’s immune from criminal prosecution
A view of the front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is seen Feb. 29. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images A view of the front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., is seen Feb. 29. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images A genuinely historic event takes place at the Supreme Court on Thursday. The justices hear arguments on Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution after leaving office for any of his official acts while he was president. Specifically, Trump claims that the steps he took to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election were part of his official duties and that he thus cannot be criminally prosecuted. The question of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution after leaving office has never been decided by the Supreme Court. NPR special live coverage begins just ahead of the 10 a.m. Supreme Court hearing. Click on the player below to listen or tune in on the NPR app. President Richard Nixon, while in office, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in …
Married man who beat girlfriend to death jailed 20 years, more than what prosecution sought
SINGAPORE: A married man who beat his lover to death in a rage lasting nearly two hours was sentenced to 20 years’ jail on Monday (Apr 22), longer than what the prosecution had argued for. M Krishnan, 40, had earlier pleaded guilty to one count of culpable homicide not amounting to murder after causing the death of Mallika Begum Rahamansa Abdul Rahman, also 40. The charge carries a maximum penalty of imprisonment for life and caning, or a jail term of up to 20 years, and a fine or caning. Krishnan, a Singaporean, had been upset over Ms Mallika’s relationships with other men. His deadly attack caused Ms Mallika to die of a head injury on Jan 17, 2019. BACKGROUND Krishnan met Ms Mallika in 2015 and they began an affair while he was still married. During his relationship with Ms Mallika, Krishnan hit her at least once in 2017. The abuse escalated from 2019 – after Ms Mallika confessed that she had had sexual relations with several men. On Jan 15, 2019, during …
Prosecution lays out ‘criminal conspiracy’ as Trump’s hush money trial opens in New York
Prosecutors accused Donald Trump of engaging in “criminal conspiracy and a coverup” as opening arguments began Monday in the first ever criminal trial of a former US president. Issued on: 22/04/2024 – 03:44Modified: 22/04/2024 – 21:58 3 min Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo said Trump falsified business records to pay $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels to “silence” her about a potentially politically embarrassing sexual encounter. “This case is about a criminal conspiracy and a coverup,” Colangelo told the jury of New Yorkers in a Manhattan courtroom. “He orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election.” Trump, dressed in a dark suit and blue tie, sat at the defense table, staring straight ahead as the prosecutor delivered his opening statement, shifting back and forth in his seat a little. 01:40 Before the court session began, Trump condemned the case as “election interference” designed to derail his 2024 White House bid. “It’s a very, very sad day in America,” the 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate told reporters. “I’m here instead of being able to be …
Inside Alvin Bragg’s All-Star Prosecution Team
Alvin Bragg is the Manhattan district attorney. He’s the boss and makes the big decisions, and thus has been receiving the bulk of the abuse from Donald Trump. But Bragg will be only a passing presence in the courtroom during the former president’s trial on charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels—and even when Bragg shows up, he won’t be speaking, either in the courtroom or on the courthouse steps. Instead, the day-to-day weight of pursuing an unprecedented conviction will be shouldered by six of Bragg’s top lawyers. There is no official “lead prosecutor” on the team, and all six have significant responsibilities. Yet two of the attorneys should have especially prominent roles—in delivering key statements and in examining pivotal, complicated witnesses, including Daniels and Michael Cohen, most likely, and perhaps even the highly volatile defendant himself. The contrast in styles and personalities will be particularly striking when Matthew Colangelo is doing the questioning. “No drama,” says friend and former legal colleague Anurima Bhargava. “He isn’t somebody …
Vigil for WPC Yvonne Fletcher as hopes grow for prosecution 40 years after ‘callous’ murder | UK News
More than a thousand people are expected to flood a pretty London square to celebrate the life of a police officer murdered there exactly 40 years ago. PC Yvonne Fletcher, 25, was shot dead by a bullet fired from inside the Libyan embassy while she was policing a demonstration outside the building. No-one was ever charged with her murder, but campaigners are hoping this year to bring a private prosecution against a former Libyan minister who was there that day. Former PC John Murray, who comforted PC Fletcher as she lay dying, said: “I cradled Yvonne’s head in my hands and I promised her that one day I would get justice for her. I’m still fighting for it. “I knew that as soon as the Crown Prosecution Service said it wasn’t interested, that it would be down to me. We are nearly there.” Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said he would join the Metropolitan police force in paying tribute to PC Fletcher, who “had her whole career and her whole life ahead of her” when she …
‘She wants to go to school’: parents of unwell child fear truancy prosecution | School attendance and absence
Chloe Beak lives with chronic, debilitating migraines that leave her unable to attend school for days at a time. But instead of receiving support from her school, her parents have been fined by the local authority for her truancy. The family’s current fix is to send their daughter in with a migraine until she gets sent home, meaning her absences are registered as authorised. If they do not, the school will consider her a truant as it believes she has emotionally based school avoidance. The Beaks are anticipating a further fine and worry they will have to take the matter to court to avoid risking a criminal record. Her mother, Kerry Beak, said: “Me and my husband were so stressed out we just thought it would be easier to pay it. But £120 is a lot of money. We’ve been down every avenue with the school, but they’ve not really been a huge support. We’ve given so much evidence that it is a medical need. Chloe is bright. She’s not a truant, she wants to …
Evan Corcoran quits Trump’s legal team, could be prosecution witness in classified documents case
As Donald Trump awaits trial over his handling of classified national security documents, his longtime attorney, Evan Corcoran, is leaving the former president’s legal team. Citing multiple sources, CNN reported late Thursday that the departure is a significant blow to Trump, as Corcoran could be called as a key witness against him should the long-delayed trial go forward. According to the indictment filed last year, Trump and associates conspired to hide boxes full of classified documents in Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in south Florida, and ignored demands to return them to the National Archives. Trump himself faces 40 felony charges, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. In the lead-up to the indictment, Corcoran appeared before an investigating grand jury to discuss his conversations with Trump after a district judge ruled that his personal notes and voice memos were not subject to attorney-client privilege. Corcoran’s notes were invaluable to prosecutors, providing a “road map” to build the case. “These are contemporaneous renditions of what was going on,” Catherine Ross, a constitutional law …