Tag: criminal punishment
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Bob Menendez’s wife says she was ex-senator’s ‘puppet’ as she gets 4½ years in prison for bribery
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison for selling the powerful New Jersey politician’s influence in exchange for bribes
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Previous charges, delayed mental health evaluation were missed opportunities in Charlotte stabbing
After Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee aboard a North Carolina commuter train, he was quickly sent to a state mental hospital for an evaluation
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Bail reforms across the US have shown that releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Henry F. Fradella, Arizona State University and Christine Scott-Hayward, California State University, Long Beach (THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump recently signed two executive orders targeting “cashless bail,” the policies that permit the release of people arrested for crimes pending…
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Suspect convicted of murder in knife attack at German festival and sentenced to life in prison
A German court has convicted the suspect in last year’s knife attack at a festival in Solingen of murder and membership in the Islamic State group and sentenced him to life in prison
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Thailand’s former PM Thaksin Shinawatra starts 1-year prison term for previous convictions
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is in Bangkok’s Klong Prem Central Prison after the Supreme court said he must serve a one-year prison term for previous convictions
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Princeton doctoral student kidnapped in Iraq has been freed. ‘We both started sobbing,’ sister says
An Israeli-Russian doctoral student from Princeton University who was kidnapped in Iraq has been released
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Former Backpage CEO gets three years of probation after testifying at trial about site’s sex ads
The former chief executive for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage
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Man pleads guilty to charges that he meant to blow up a Nashville power site with a bomb-laden drone
Prosecutors say a 24-year-old man with ties to white nationalist groups has pleaded guilty to charges that he attempted to use a drone to bomb a Nashville electricity substation
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‘Reckless’ and ‘inhumane’: Family blames Calif. jail officials for man’s death after cell beating
On Monday afternoon, a San Diego Superior Court judge sentenced 24-year-old Walt Mehran to 12 years in prison for the Dec. 2, 2023, attempted murder of Eric Van Tine. The two men, both struggling with mental illness and drug addiction, had been placed in a cell with a third man at San Diego’s Central Jail…