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Scott Olson/Getty Images (MIAMI) — A federal judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s attempt to have his classified documents case dismissed based on the Presidential Records Act. Trump’s attorneys had argued, as part of four motions to dismiss, that Trump should have been able to have custody of the documents in question, even after […]
Innocence Project (PHILADELPHIA) — Three Philadelphia-area men, each of whom spent decades in prison, had their convictions vacated in court last Thursday due to recent evidence that their DNA had been absent from the scene of the murder of an elderly woman more than 25 years ago. Sam Grasty, Derrick Chappell and Morton Johnson have […]
Anna Moneymaker / Staff / Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s tax case in California heard several defense motions to dismiss the charges Wednesday, and said afterward that he would issue rulings by April 17. After a relatively civil start to the hearing, tensions escalated as defense attorney Abbe Lowell […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case in New York has granted the Manhattan district attorney’s request for a limited gag order on the former president. The order, by Judge Juan Merchan, restricts Trump’s public statements about witnesses and others. Statements made by Trump about witnesses, prosecutors, […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Effective Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s namesake family real estate company has a babysitter. New York Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw Trump’s civil fraud trial, imposed a monitor over the Trump Organization as part of a judgment that also required Trump to pay a nearly-half billion dollar penalty. Barbara […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee on Wednesday cleared the way for former President Donald Trump to appeal the judge’s ruling that ultimately kept Fulton County DA Fani Willis on the election interference case. McAfee granted the joint request from Trump and some of his codefendants to obtain a certificate of […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal prosecution in New York has denied Trump’s attempts to exclude evidence related to the Access Hollywood tape and testimony from key witnesses from his upcoming criminal trial, but prosecutors will not be permitted to play the infamous tape to jurors. The […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal prosecution in New York has denied Trump’s attempts to exclude the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape and testimony from key witnesses from his upcoming criminal trial. The defense argued Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, should not be allowed to testify because he […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s New York hush money case has delayed the start of the trial from its original March 25 start date, due to discovery issues raised by the defense. “Trial on this matter is adjourned for 30 days from the date of this letter,” […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants has declined to outright disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, but ruled that either she or prosecutor Nathan Wade must step aside from the case. In a 23-page ruling, Judge Scott McAfee wrote that […]
