Tag: Sentencing
Convictions in baby’s death tossed; couple freed from prison
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Ashley and Albert Debelbot were sitting in the same courtroom where, more than a decade earlier, they were convicted of murdering...
White supremacist leader sentenced to 35 years in prison
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The leader of a violent white supremacist gang that began in Arkansas’ prisons was sentenced to 35 years in prison...
Virginia: Ex-gynecologist gets 59 years on fraud conviction
NORFOLK, Va. — A former gynecologist in Virginia who was convicted on fraud charges for performing unnecessary surgeries and procedures was sentenced Tuesday to...
High court won’t make unanimous jury requirement retroactive
WASHINGTON —
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that prisoners who...
Indiana boy, 16, sentenced in fatal shooting of another teen
FRANKLIN, Ind. — A 16-year-old suburban Indianapolis boy charged as an adult in another teen's fatal shooting has been sentenced to more than two...
California man gets life for killing LA sheriff’s deputy
LOS ANGELES — A parolee who pleaded guilty to the execution-style killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant in 2016 was sentenced Monday...
Ex-prosecutor disbarred after wrongful convictions in Texas
DALLAS — A former Dallas County prosecutor has surrendered his law license after the State Bar of Texas said he withheld evidence that led...
Deutsche Welle journalist sentenced in Belarus to 20 days
MOSCOW — German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle says one of its freelance correspondents has been sentenced to 20 days in jail in Belarus.
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2 men wrongfully sent to death row awarded $75M in damages
RALEIGH, N.C. — A jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded $75 million to two Black, intellectually disabled half brothers...
Hip-hop’s Mally Mall gets prison in Vegas prostitution case
LAS VEGAS — Hip-hop music figure Jamal “Mally Mall” Rashid was sentenced Thursday in Las Vegas to 33 months in federal prison for owning...
