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Enis Jevric, a sergeant with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington DC, pleaded guilty on Friday in US federal court to using excessive force on August 25, 2021, resulting in An’Twan Gilmore’s death in a police shooting. Additionally, Jevric pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter under DC law. The indictment charged Jevric with three counts. [...]

Former US President Donald Trump asked the federal judge overseeing his criminal retention of classified documents case on Thursday to dismiss the case based on a claim of presidential immunity. Trump currently faces 40 criminal charges in the case. His motion to dismiss only deals with the first 32 counts of the indictment against him, [...]

A Massachusetts federal judge sentenced a Texas man to serve three months in federal prison on Thursday for threatening a Boston, Massachusetts doctor affiliated with the national LGBTQIA+ health education center. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Matthew Jordan Lindner’s sentence after he previously pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transmission of threatening [...]

I am an ordained Jewish cantor, a former Jewish prison chaplain, a third-generation Holocaust survivor, and co-founder of L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty. I write these words on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and on the morning after Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas — the first execution of this [...]

France’s highest court dismissed an appeal Tuesday from Lafarge, a French building materials manufacturer, seeking to drop charges of complicity in crimes against humanity. In 2017, Sherpa, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human rights, as well as 11 former employees, filed a complaint alleging that Lafarge had financed terrorist groups, endangered the lives of [...]

The Hong Kong Fanling Magistrates’ Courts imposed on Monday a suspended sentence for Man Wing Fung. Fung pleaded guilty to engaging in illegal conduct to incite another person not to vote by activity in public during the election period, contrary to section 27 of the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance, and a two-month imprisonment [...]

Former US president Donald Trump filed to dismiss state-level criminal charges by asserting immunity claims in an election interference case on Monday. In seeking to have the Georgia judge dismiss the case, Trump asserts that his indictment is unconstitutional because he was acting in his official presidential capacity, which exempts him from being prosecuted. In [...]

Detained Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai’s international legal team filed an urgent appeal on Thursday with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The team alleged that the Chinese authorities tortured a key prosecution witness to coerce him into providing incriminating evidence [...]

The Hong Kong High Court sentenced two offenders on Thursday to six years for conspiracy to cause explosion and conspiracy to commit terrorist activities respectively, local media the Witness reported. The court jailed another defendant, who was serving her sentence for another conviction of subversion, for 30 months. The prosecution dropped the charge against the [...]

A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty on Friday to two charges related to the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios was among a group of gunmen who attacked the president’s home in the early hours of July 7, 2021. Moise died in the attack, and the president’s wife, Martine, was [...]