The Kentucky Supreme Court has thrown out the double murder conviction of a Louisville man sentenced to life in prison for the ambush killing of a father and his 3-year-old daughter in 2020. The high court says the trial judge erred when he didn’t declare a mistrial during Kevon Lawless' trial. A juror had learned that a witness was accused of perjuring himself while testifying. Prosecutors say they will pursue another conviction against Lawless. Lawless was convicted of killing of Brandon Waddles and Waddles’ 3-year-old daughter. Court records say Lawless lured Waddles outside his residence, where he was shot.

Jury selection has begun in the first-degree murder trial of a former Illinois sheriff's deputy in the death of Sonya Massey. Sean Grayson faces a first-degree murder charge for fatally shooting Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who had mental health problems, in her Springfield home after she called 911 for help. Massey died July 6, 2024. She was unarmed but a confrontation with Grayson over her removing a pan of hot water from the stove prompted him to shoot her. The 31-year-old Grayson had problems in past law enforcement jobs and critics questioned why he was hired. The trial was moved to Peoria because of pretrial publicity.

A jury has found an Ohio woman guilty in the fatal stabbing of a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside a supermarket in suburban Cleveland. Thirty-four-year-old Bionca Ellis, of Cleveland, will be sentenced Oct. 27. She was found guilty Wednesday on nine counts, including aggravated murder for the June 3, 2024, attack that killed toddler Julian Wood and left his mother injured. Authorities said Ellis entered the supermarket in North Olmsted with two stolen knives, spotted Julian and his mother, followed them into the parking lot and ran at them, stabbing the boy twice.

A lawyer for the family of Tyler Skaggs says the Los Angeles Angels should be held responsible for the drug overdose death of the star pitcher. The team's attorney, however, said they were not aware of drug use by Skaggs or they would have done something to help. The comments came in opening statements Tuesday in the trial for a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Skaggs' family. Plaintiffs' attorney Shawn Holley told jurors that Angels officials knew communications director Eric Kay was supplying drugs to Skaggs and other players. The Angels argue Skaggs' actions were his own and not preventable by the MLB team. The trial could include testimony from players like Mike Trout and Wade Miley.

Two jurors who voted in June to convict Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault said they regret the decision and only did so because others on the panel bullied them, the former movie mogul’s lawyers said in a newly public court filing. Weinstein’s lawyers are seeking to overturn his conviction for first-degree criminal sex act, arguing in papers unsealed Thursday that the guilty verdict was marred by “threats, intimidation, and extraneous bias,” and that the judge failed to properly deal with it at the time. In sworn affidavits included with the filing, two jurors said they felt overwhelmed and intimidated by jurors who wanted to convict Weinstein on the charge, which accused him of forcing oral sex on TV and film production assistant and producer Miriam Haley in 2006.

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on mortgage fraud charges. It’s a case she says is bogus, cooked up by the Justice Department to please Trump. The prosecution is a turnabout after James spent years investigating and suing Trump. She’s peppered him and his administration with lawsuits challenging policies and won a judgment that he defrauded banks by overstating the value of his real estate holdings. Prosecutors say that after James bought a house in Virginia in 2020, she violated a mortgage requirement that she primarily use it as a second home for a year. They say she instead rented it out to a family.

The federal judge overseeing the Justice Department’s prosecution of former FBI director James Comey has already handled cases in President Donald Trump’s orbit. U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff is scheduled to preside over Comey’s arraignment Wednesday. He's a relative newcomer to the bench after Democratic President Joe Biden nominated him in 2021. He was randomly assigned to Comey’s case following a grand jury indictment in Virginia on charges including obstruction of a congressional proceeding. In 2019, he presided over an arraignment for associates of former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. More recently, he ruled against a doctor who was attacked by prominent Trump allies.

The attorney of the late Kyren Lacy, a former LSU football player who was accused of negligent homicide for his alleged role in a fatal car crash last year, is questioning his involvement in the deadly wreck. New surveillance footage of the crash has sparked renewed national attention in the case. Lacy's attorney said video shows that the athlete was too for away from the crash to be considered responsible. Police maintain that Lacy's reckless driving triggered the chain of events that lead to the collision. Lacy, who had declared for the 2025 NFL draft, had been booked on negligent homicide, felony hit and run and reckless operation of a vehicle. In April, Lacy died of an apparent suicide.