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The disgraced pop star will be sentenced on Wednesday after being found guilty of sex trafficking.

The alleged offences are said to have taken place when Wayne Couzens was a serving Met officer.

A judge will weigh whether the Oath Keepers founder should be freed pending trial in the Capitol attack.

“It would mean that practically in every murder case where you don’t have a witness, all the defendant has to say is that he or she was acting in self-defense to get away with it” he said. “It also means you are going to have a lot of murderers walking free if this becomes law.”

An arrest warrant has been issued for a Crystal Cruises ship that was supposed to arrive in Miami Saturday, but reportedly is a fugitive ship heading for the Bahamas Sunday.

A court in Germany has convicted a 31-year-old man of 89 counts of attempted murder for driving his car into a crowd celebrating Carnival last year

A Black student at Bloomfield Hills High School filed a federal class-action lawsuit on Thursday, accusing the administration of all but ignoring racial discrimination. The...

Two top D.C. corrections officials were found in contempt in the case of a Florida Proud Boys member awaiting wrist surgery for more than four months.

The footballer is accused of the rape and sexual assault of three women at his home in Cheshire.

Sentence reduced for onetime Outlaws motorcycle gang member Mark Polchan, who told a judge the decade he’s spent behind bars for his role in a violent, mob-connected crew has left him a changed man.

Investigators say Jeremy Brown showed up at the Capitol equipped with zip ties, surgical shears and other tactical gear.

"On the morning of September 6, I provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state's new limit," the doctor wrote.

"On the morning of September 6, I provided an abortion to a woman who, though still in her first trimester, was beyond the state's new limit," the doctor wrote.

Emily Claire Hari was convicted in December on five counts.

“This is a survivor driven-program that survivors can choose to enter," Savit said.

The Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office will now give crime survivors a choice in how they'd like their case to proceed.

Defense attorney argued Joseph Hackett’s wife would keep him from returning to extremist views. She hosts a political podcast, prosecutors say.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A Lansing man accused of trying to help his brother join ISIS fighters in Somali was sentenced Thursday, Aug. 12, to eight years, two months in federal prison. His brother, Muse Muse, 22, of Lansing, was sentenced last week to 6 ½ years in federal prison. They said that Mohamud Muse and his co-defendants conspired for two years to provide support and resources, including personnel, to ISIS. Muse Muse obtained $1,200 for help for the flight from who he believed to be an ISIS fighter. Read more:FBI baited young men accused of supporting ISIS, defense suggestsLansing man sentenced for trying to join ISIS terrorist groupEgg-sized hail, 105 mph winds, buckets of rain: Crazy highlights from Michigan’s storms

The 82 year old is given a suspended sentence and fined €250,000 (£213,469).

Tong Ying-kit rode a motorbike into police officers while flying a flag with a protest slogan.

“Defendant requests that she be released so that she can properly take care of her blood disorder and save amputating her foot,” Stephanie Householder’s attorney told the court.

Prosecutors are asking the judge to revoke the release order for Thomas Robertson, a former Rocky Mount, Va., police officer.

Lawyer steps away from case after guilty verdict in his brother's murder trial.

Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill denied former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's request for a retrial, according to NBC News.Why it matters: Cahill's denial ensures that Chauvin will be sentenced for the murder of George Floyd later that same day.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeThe big picture: Cahill wrote in a ruling Thursday night that Chauvin's defense "failed to demonstrate ... the Court abused its discretion or

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick stole the headlines, but his friend and favorite municipal construction contractor Bobby Ferguson was found just as guilty of stealing taxpayer money. About three months after former President Donald Trump commuted Kilpatrick’s 28-year sentence, a federal judge on Thursday, April 29 granted Ferguson, now 52, “compassionate” early release from his 21-year sentence. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds, who originally sentenced Ferguson and Kilpatrick in 2013, also granted Ferguson’s early release. Kwame Kilpatrick peers out from a corner of the Theodore Levin U.S. Ferguson was not the mayor,” Edmunds said at sentencing.

In that suit, Spalding — without naming Barz as a defendant — accused her police bosses of retaliating against her for working with the FBI in its investigation into Sgt. Ronald Watts, a former public housing officer who went to prison for shaking down drug dealers for protection money and pinning false cases on those who wouldn’t pay. City officials settled that whistleblower suit for about $2 million in 2016, a settlement that was reached with the city shortly before then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel would have been forced to take the witness stand in the case.

Elizabeth Holmes intended to use Theranos "as a tool to better her personal situation," prosecutors wrote in a motion with the court Friday night. As CEO of Theranos, prosecutors said Holmes lived an extravagant lifestyle, which included "travel on private jets, stays in luxury hotels, and access to multiple assistants." The government intends to show evidence the alleged fraud at Theranos was directly related to the money and fame Holmes attained as CEO of Theranos. Prosecutors wrote Holmes was "the object of admiration in the business community locally and nationwide, and appeared in numerous publications and on television. Holmes was a Silicon Valley darling who attracted more than $700 million in investor funds.

A former investment manager was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his alleged participation in a scheme to defraud a North Carolina-based life insurance company out of over $34 million. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina, and Inspector in Charge Delany De Leon-Colon of the U.S. The indictment alleges that the defendant, CEO and founder of Forefront Capital Holdings, engaged in a scheme to enrich himself and his business entities by defrauding a life insurance company out of assets held in trust for the potential payment of life insurance claims. As alleged in the indictment, the defendant served as an investment advisor for over $34 million in assets belonging to the life insurance company. As a result of the defendant’s scheme, the life insurance company was only able to recoup a portion of the approximately $34 million that it entrusted to the defendant, was unable to pay out on claims by its beneficiaries, and was placed in rehabilitation.

Hello, my name is Eric Dreiband and I am the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Justice. As Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, it is both my duty and my privilege to enforce the federal civil rights laws and, with our dedicated law enforcement colleagues, to protect the civil rights of all persons in our country. It is the duty of government to secure these rights, and one way we do so is by enforcing federal hate crimes laws. Today, we and the grand jury allege that the Defendant committed federal hate crimes, and that he committed these violent crimes to frighten and intimidate the Hispanic community. I now turn the podium over to Luis Quesada, the FBIs Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso FBI office.

Izmir Koch, 34, of Huber Heights, Ohio, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for beating a man he believed to be Jewish outside of a Cincinnati restaurant. That is why investigating and prosecuting hate crimes is such a high priority. "Each day we strive to protect civil rights and hold accountable those who violate the rights of others." It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Megan Gaffney of the Southern District of Ohio and Trial Attorney Dana Mulhauser of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. For more information about Department of Justices work to combat and prevent hate crimes, visit www.justice.gov/hatecrimes: a one-stop portal with links to Department of Justice hate crimes resources for law enforcement, media, researchers, victims, advocacy groups, and other organizations and individuals.