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The Supreme Court has again rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a $5 million jury verdict in favor of writer E. Jean Carroll.
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Officials in Akron, Ohio, have fired a police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old boy. City leaders also announced Friday that they have agreed to pay the teen’s family nearly $4.8 million. Police have said that Jazmir Tucker was carrying a loaded weapon when he was shot in November 2024. Akron Mayor Shammas Malik says officer Davon Fields was fired for multiple policy violations. Those include failing to provide medical aid and violating policy on body worn cameras. The head of Akron’s police union calls the firing unjust and promises to fight it. A grand jury decided against indicting the officer last year.
A jury has been selected in the trial against the man charged in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. Duane “Keffe D” Davis is the first person to be charged in connection to the drive-by shooting in Las Vegas nearly 30 years ago. Jurors were selected Thursday. Attorneys spent four days selecting the 16 jurors, asking to what extent they knew the rapper or heard about the case. Prosecutors allege Davis was the “shot caller” who orchestrating the shooting. Davis has pleaded not guilty and could be sentenced to life in prison if he’s convicted. Opening statements are expected to begin Monday.
A jury has been selected in the Las Vegas trial over Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing.
A Los Angeles County grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner on murder charges in the killing of his parents, actor Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. The indictment, unsealed Wednesday, includes an allegation that Reiner was lying in wait before attacking them. The couple was stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on December 14. Nick Reiner was arrested hours later and charged two days after the incident. The indictment allows prosecutors to skip California's preliminary hearing process. The lying in wait allegation makes Reiner eligible for the death penalty, though prosecutors haven't decided whether to seek it.
Nick Reiner laid in wait before killing parents Rob and Michele Reiner, new grand jury indictment alleges.
Jury selection began Wednesday in Meta’s federal trial over claims its platforms have harmed youth mental health and track children in violation of federal law. The trial is scheduled to begin next week and is expected to last six to eight weeks. Meta faces 29 states in the federal multidistrict lawsuit filed in 2023, but the Oakland trial will only include the first four — California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey.
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The trial of a man accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur is underway. The unsolved case has gripped the hip-hop world for 30 years. The trial began Monday and is expected to last about a month. Duane “Keffe D” Davis has pleaded not guilty to one charge of murder with a deadly weapon. At the time, Davis was a leader of the South Side Compton Crips. People who will testify include those who saw Shakur moments before he was shot, as well as people who were affiliated with rival record labels. Shakur was shot multiple times while on his way to perform and died a week later.
The jury in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy saw autopsy photos of the youngest of three children, who she has admitted strangling in January 2023. The photos prompted Clancy to breakdown in repeated sobs. The defense doesn’t dispute that Clancy killed the children but argues she was overwhelmed by postpartum psychosis, a rare condition that affects women’s hold on reality after childbirth. Prosecutors contend that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, acted intentionally and is criminally responsible. If convicted, she faces life in prison without parole.
Months before Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, the family's former nanny said she saw her deal with significant weight loss, insomnia, and postpregnancy mental health issues. However, Elaine Rossi told the jury at Clancy's murder trial Wednesday that she never saw the Massachusetts mom as a danger to her kids. Clancy's defense doesn't dispute that she killed the children in January 2023, but argues she was overwhelmed by postpartum psychosis, a rare condition that affects women's hold on reality after childbirth. Prosecutors contend that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, acted intentionally and is criminally responsible. If convicted, she faces life in prison without parole.