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No charges filed after police shot an 11-year-old who called for help, officials say

In a statement, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch says her office completed its review into the May incident and presented it to a grand jury — who handed up the decision.

WEKU

Cousins who served longest wrongful conviction sentence in state history exonerated after 42 years in prison

James Soto, 62, and David Ayala, 60, were released Thursday night after a judge vacated their convictions. They were serving life sentences in the 1981 shooting deaths of a Marine and a teen girl in McKinley Park, and were 20 and 18 when they were wrongfully charged.

Chicago Sun-Times

Hunter Biden criminal case shows power of prosecutors to ‘coerce guilty pleas’

A so-called “trial penalty” helps explain why, contrary to the impression left by movies and TV shows, criminal cases almost never go to trial, Jacob Sullum writes.

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Woman convicted of murder over citizen’s arrest gone wrong

Hannah Payne, 24, claimed she never intended to shoot 62-year-old Kenneth Herring

The Independent UK

U.S. Supreme Court again refuses to block Illinois’ assault weapons ban

The high court had been asked to issue an injunction that would have blocked the year-old law, which prohibits the possession, manufacture or sale of semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines.

Chicago Sun-Times

Boy, 13, charged after allegedly planning mass shooting in a synagogue

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with allegedly planning a mass shooting at an Ohio synagogue

The Independent UK

Louisville police officer faces fresh trial for shooting of Breonna Taylor

Detective Brett Hankison blindly fired 10 times into apartment

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Hunter Biden's Lawyers Say the Gun Ban He Violated Is Unconstitutional, Widely Flouted, and Rarely Enforced

The president's son is seeking dismissal of three felony charges based on his illegal 2018 firearm purchase.

Reason

Senator's son faces upgraded homicide charge in crash that killed North Dakota sheriff's deputy

New charges have been approved Thursday against the 42-year-old son of U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer in connection with a crash last week that killed a North Dakota sheriff's deputy

The Independent UK

Suspect in stabbing death of eastern Nebraska priest had no connection to priest, prosecutor says

Prosecutors say a suspect in the stabbing death of a Catholic priest in eastern Nebraska appears to have no connection to the priest or the town where the stabbing occurred

The Independent UK

Supreme Court leaves Illinois semiautomatic gun ban in place

Two lower courts have upheld the law, and Thursday's Supreme Court action marked the second time in six months that the justices have declined to intervene.

WEKU

Chilling details emerge in priest’s murder with suspect found lying in cross over body

Kierre L Williams, 43, is accused of stabbing Stephen Gutgsell to death in the rectory at St John the Baptist in Fort Calhoun on Sunday

The Independent UK

Key piece of evidence that led to suspect in Samantha Woll’s murder

Michael Jackson-Bolanos, 28, is accused of killing the synagogue leader in a ‘crime of opportunity’

The Independent UK

‘Ex-husband’ made chilling greeting before fatally shooting newlyweds

The alleged gunman reportedly became angry because the couple had installed a security camera at their house

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Boy, 13, charged with plotting mass shooting at Ohio synagogue

Teen allegedly hatched plan on Discord

The Independent UK

Caroline Glachan: Three guilty of murdering girl found dead in river 27 years ago

Robert O’Brien, 45, Andrew Kelly and Donna Marie Brand, both 44, have been found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow

The National (Scotland)

Three found guilty of murdering Glasgow teen Caroline Glachan 27 years ago

THREE people have been found guilty of the murdering a teenager in Scotland 27 years ago.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: 'We can't go on like this' – time to tackle knife crime on our streets

No one should ever board a bus to school, take a walk in the park, or go on a night out with friends, and never come home. Yet it keeps happening in our city.

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Stop the bloodshed: Family of latest teenage stab victim call for end to London's knife crime epidemic

Seventeen teenagers' lives have been lost to knife crime in 2023

The Independent UK

Woman dubbed Australia’s worst female serial killer cleared of murdering four young children

Kathleen Folbigg expected to seek big compensation package from NSW government

AAP

Victims confront 'monster' rapist who posed as cop

Shivan Suresh Agravat posed as a cop to threaten two vulnerable women to have sex with him, an action they told a court left them traumatised.

AAP

Victims heard on man accused of murder and kidnappings

Victim impact statements have been heard before Christopher Hillman is sentenced for a shooting murder and kidnapping two people while he was on the run.

The Independent UK

Lawyers and prosecutors make final arguments in trial of 3 Washington state officers

Lawyers for three Washington state officers charged in the death of a Black man who was beaten, shocked and hogtied facedown on a sidewalk have made their final arguments to the jury

Chicago Sun-Times

FBG Duck’s ex-girlfriend says defendant sent her three laughing emojis after allegedly summoning rapper’s killers

Dateisha House testified Wednesday that her child’s father, Ralph Turpin, sent the message shortly after FBG Duck was gunned down in the Gold Coast in August 2020.

The Independent UK

Black man outrageously blamed for his own death at police officers’ murder trial

‘This is a situation where he created his own death,’ defence attorney Wayne Fricke tells court

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