A Georgia, Mableton man has been sentenced on Tuesday to 40 years in prison for the sexual exploitation and coercion of 150 girls. According to KTLA5, 25-year-old Benjamin Jenkins was convicted on January 16 for nine counts of producing child pornography and three counts for distributing it. Jenkins will be on supervised release and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, explains The New York Post.
The trial for Harry Rogers, the self-proclaimed KKK leader who drove his truck into Black Lives Matter protesters, began Monday morning. Rogers faces four hate crimes, two counts of felonious attempted malicious wounding, and one count of felony hit and run in connection to a June 7 incident in Lakeside.
Did any of the people responsible for Walter McMillian’s wrongful conviction, which is chronicled in the film “Just Mercy,” face any consequences?
The Department of Justice said Monday it will consider a request by Georgia’s attorney general to review the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery and assess whether federal hate crime charges should be pursued in the high-profile case.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office has filed several felony charges, including aggravated murder, against the man accused of killing Tony and Katherine Butterfield of West Jordan.
Albert Enoch Johnson, 31, faces two counts of criminal homicide/aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated murder and two counts of aggravated kidnapping, one count of aggravated burglary, two counts of possession of a firearm by a restricted person, and one count of obstructing justice in connection with the Butterfields’ deaths.
The justices affirm 10 of the 11 convictions against Ronald Paquin, 77, a former Catholic priest from Massachusetts, leaving his 16-year prison sentence unchanged.
A regional Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the convictions of the men involved in the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison Wednesday for his rape and criminal sex act convictions following an emotional trial that was a landmark moment in the #MeToo era. Weinstein was convicted Feb. 24 of rape in the third degree for assaulting aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a New York City hotel room in 2013, and of committing a criminal sex act for forcing oral sex on former production assistant Mimi Haley in 2006.
Tipperary farmer Patrick Quirke has been given a date in October to bring an appeal against his conviction for the murder of Bobby Ryan.
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