Dr. Mark Chavez was allowed to remain free on bond after conspiring to distribute surgical anesthetic ketamine to late actor Matthew Perry. Chavez appeared in Los Angeles court on Friday after reaching a plea agreement earlier this month. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jean P. Rosenbluth told him he could remain free on bond with several restrictions,...
Maryland’s Supreme Court reinstated Adnan Syed’s murder conviction Friday, ruling the 2022 court hearing that freed the accused killer violated the rights of his alleged victim’s family. The 4-3 ruling came nearly a year after the court heard arguments in October in the case that gained notoriety from the hit 2014 true-crime podcast “Serial.” Syed...
Illegal migrants do not have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, a federal appealscourtin New Orleans has ruled, rejecting arguments by a Mexican man who was convicted ofillegally possessing a handgun and argued that thebanwas unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. CircuitCourtof Appealsruled on Tuesdaythat federal prohibitions on...
A Utah children’s book author accused of killing her husband with a cocktail laced with fentanyl will face a murder trial in the wake of new testimony suggesting she was having an affair with a man and that she purchased the deadly drug from a housekeeper. Kouri Richins, 34, a mother of three, is accused...
HP is a household name when it comes to printers, but the company employs questionable practices to maximize profits. Much like Apple, HP aims to create a closed ecosystem, forcing you to use only its ink with its printers, especially if you opt into HP+. Recently, I was at my in-laws’ home and signed up...
Disgraced lawyer Tom Girardi was convicted Tuesday of defrauding clients in a years-long Ponzi scheme through his now defunct Girardi Keese law firm. Following a 13-day trial, Girardi, 85, was found guilty of four counts of wire fraud by a jury. Girardi faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for each...
Former President Trump’s legal team has filed a reply brief to the Georgia Court of Appeals in his case to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. “President Trump’s legal team has filed a reply brief in the Georgia Court of Appeals persuasively rebutting the State’s arguments,” Steve Sadow, counsel for Trump, said in a...
Sean “Diddy” Combs filed to have a pending sexual assault lawsuit dismissed Monday. Combs’ legal team asked the court to dismiss Rodney Jones’ lawsuit against the rapper. The motion, filed in the Southern District of New York, accused Jones and his lawyer of filing the lawsuit with “blatant falsehoods” to “generate media hype” and “extract...
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with a vehicle in January 2022, faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed against her on Monday by the family of the victim. Paul O’Keefe, the brother of late Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the O’Keefe...
A man with suspected Antifa sympathiespleaded guilty on Fridayto detonating an explosive device filled with nails outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office earlier this year, according to the Department of Justice. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 26, of Irondale, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court to the malicious use of an explosive device he set off...
