#criminal-justice

#criminal-justice

From 2011 to 2020 her husband, Dominque Pelicot, was drugging her and using a chatroom called "à son insu" ("without her knowledge") to invite local men to rape her while she was unconscious. He might never have been found out had he not been caught taking pictures up women's skirts in a supermarket.

A man with previous convictions for knife crime has been jailed for nine years after he killed a 20-year-old who stole from the defendant's unlocked van in the early hours of the morning.

Video obtained by Crime World, which cannot be published for legal reasons, shows how McArdle smirked and engaged in an exaggerated high-pitched guffaw as Kelly-Ann's relatives challenged him over her manslaughter 26 years ago.

Every state now has a legal avenue where people can request DNA testing of evidence after being convicted. But in many cases, it's not clear if those statutes apply once convicts have died, said Brandon Garrett, a law professor at Duke University.

Wenzlau will need to give his probation officer with any passwords for electronic devices when they check to ensure he doesn't contact minors. The plea bargain also requires Wenzlau's probation officer to approve anytime Wenzlau wants to use the internet, according to court records. Wenzlau also has to keep his browsing history for at least 4 weeks.

On March 10, 2026, Jose Angel Aguilar, a youth wearing a GPS device and on a court-ordered furlough, cut off his GPS device and absconded while attending classes at Santiago Canyon College. Aguilar had been serving time in an Orange County juvenile facility for a murder committed in 2021, authorities said.

the Bureau of Forensic Services, provided a list of 14 tests that were conducted using the defective kits, though five were tied to investigations that did not result in charges. Per the Chronicle, prosecutors said they notified defense attorneys this week after identifying the affected convictions. The District Attorney's Office identified nine convictions that utilized the tests primarily DUI cases, after the lab reported that some kits from supplier Andwin Scientific contained an incorrect concentration of sodium fluoride, about 100 milligrams instead of the stated 750 milligrams.

John Peters (33) of Wellingtonia, Knockrabo Apartments, Dundrum, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assault and assault causing harm to the woman and criminal damage to her phone on dates in 2022 and 2023.

In a motion urging the court to deny Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, an attorney for the government, Sean Buckley, slammed the FTX founder for his 'incoherent' attempt to claim 'political victimhood.' Pointing out that Bankman-Fried was 'one of the largest donors to President Biden's 2020 presidential campaign,' Buckley alleged that Bankman-Fried's abrupt party-swapping was 'a political strategy the defendant pre-planned and committed to in writing before he was convicted.'

Prosecutors accused Peters, a staunch Trump supporter who served as the Mesa County Clerk and Recorder, of allowing an unauthorized person later discovered to be affiliated with MyPillow founder and fellow election conspiracy monger Mike Lindell to access and tamper with the county election equipment, breaking into the voting machines under her supervision and copying data that was later leaked online.

The central accuser said she was 14 in 2012 when Chasing Horse allegedly claimed that spirits required her to give up her virginity in order to save her mother, who had cancer. According to deputy district attorney Bianca Pucci, he then assaulted her and warned that if she told anyone, her mother would die. Pucci said the abuse continued for years afterward.

Wagstaffe said he decided not to retry the remaining charges due to the high cost to San Mateo County taxpayers. He did not have an estimate as to how much a second trial would cost. Galatolo is facing 10 years in prison for the eight counts he was convicted of, which Wagstaffe says is a reasonable sentence, with or without the additional convictions.

When Citrus Heights police began investigating a Bay Area man for possible involvement in a home invasion robbery, they came across an unexpected piece of evidence: their suspect was wearing a GPS device as a condition of release for his pending murder case, according to court records. Now, eight months after he was released from jail, 34-year-old Jashawndre Upshaw is back behind bars, this time facing two violent felony cases.

The moment a case is ruled a suicide, it's no longer investigated as a potential homicide. It defies logic to assume someone climbed eight or nine feet into a tree with a noose around their neck and hanged themselves. These cases deserve thorough homicide investigations from the start to ensure justice and accountability.