FCC slashes cost of phone calls for inmates, capping decades-long effort

The cost of phone calls will drop dramatically for incarcerated people under new rules that federal regulators have approved, concluding a decades-long effort to provide relief to the nation’s 2 million inmates and their families.

Jul 22, 2024 8:21 AM CDT

Lawyer once named most eligible bachelor sentenced to at least 5 years in prison for rape

A Boston lawyer who was once named one of People magazine’s most eligible bachelors was sentenced Monday to between five and 10 years in prison for raping a 21-year-old woman.

Jul 16, 2024 11:15 AM CDT

Lawyer freed pending appeal of Jan. 6 conviction because of Supreme Court decision

A U.S. Supreme Court decision on the scope of an obstruction statute has led a judge to order the early release of a Georgia lawyer convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.

Jul 3, 2024 11:15 AM CDT

Trump’s NY hush-money sentencing postponed due to immunity ruling

Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush money case on Tuesday was pushed back to September, as his lawyers seek to persuade the trial judge that his conviction should be tossed out after a Supreme Court ruling that presidents have immunity for official acts.

Jul 2, 2024 2:05 PM CDT

Ex-justice sought Holy Spirit compassion before sentencing of ‘land the tuna’ politician husband

Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke was sentenced Monday to two years in prison and fined $2 million for pressuring developers to use his law firm and threatening to punish a museum that ignored his goddaughter’s internship application.

Jun 25, 2024 10:26 AM CDT

Appeals court upholds negligent homicide conviction for encouraging suicide by electronic means

A defendant living in Indiana who encouraged a Tennessee woman in online conversations to kill herself for his sexual pleasure can be found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, a Tennessee appeals court has ruled.

Jun 12, 2024 11:32 AM CDT

Wisconsin warden, 8 other staffers charged after series of prisoner deaths

The warden of a troubled Wisconsin prison and eight of his staffers have been charged following an investigation into a series of prisoner deaths over the past year. “There must be accountability for the actions and inactions of state employees,” Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt said. “As the sheriff, I am angered at how these men were treated and how they died.”

Jun 6, 2024 9:30 AM CDT

Texas DA seeks to overturn governor’s pardon of man who killed BLM protester

A Texas district attorney said his office will ask the state’s highest criminal court to overturn Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020. Daniel Perry was given a 25-year prison sentence for fatally shooting the 28-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran, Garrett Foster.

Jun 6, 2024 9:20 AM CDT

‘Colorful’ attorney with ‘massive client list’ sentenced for $2M theft, impersonating his lawyer

A New Jersey lawyer was sentenced to 5½ years in prison Thursday for stealing more than $2 million from his clients and, after he was charged, impersonating his lawyer in a letter to a bank.

Jun 4, 2024 9:54 AM CDT

Trump could make these appellate arguments after trial he calls ‘rigged’

Former President Donald Trump said Friday he will appeal his hush-money election-interference conviction during a rambling speech in which he criticized the trial, the judge and the prosecution team.

Jun 3, 2024 11:03 AM CDT

Lawyer convicted in client’s murder in ‘elaborate and shocking sequence of events’

A Southfield, Michigan, lawyer was convicted last week in the June 2022 murder of his client in an alleged plot to gain his money.

May 28, 2024 10:39 AM CDT

Ex-BigLaw attorney once ‘consumed with remorse’ over $10M client theft sentenced in new scheme

A disbarred New York lawyer who served time for stealing $10.7 million from clients is facing more prison time after pleading guilty in a scheme to defraud the government out of $1.4 million in COVID-19 relief funds.

May 23, 2024 11:06 AM CDT

Viral video shows former Rikers Island inmate as she learns she passed bar exam on first try

A woman who served six months in prison at Rikers Island in New York as a teenager passed the bar exam on the first try, a moment captured in a viral video posted to TikTok.

May 9, 2024 1:55 PM CDT

Former lawyer will be retried for murder after top Georgia court overturns conviction

Prosecutors are planning to retry a former Atlanta lawyer after his murder conviction was overturned Tuesday by the Georgia Supreme Court.

May 6, 2024 9:26 AM CDT

Former general counsel failed to file federal tax returns while earning $54M, he admits in guilty plea

The former general counsel for the Moody’s Corp. pleaded guilty last week to willfully failing to pay tax returns during a four-year period in which he earned $54 million in total gross income.

Apr 30, 2024 9:30 AM CDT