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SCOTUS Rejects Karen Read Double Jeopardy Appeal

Apr 28, 2025 5:12 PM CDT

SCOTUS Won't Hear Karen Read Appeal

Rejection means murder retrial will continue

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has declined to halt Karen Read's second trial. The court rejected her double jeopardy appeal on Monday, meaning her retrial, now in its second week, will continue, ABC News reports. Her trial last year on charges of second-degree murder, leaving the scene of a crash, and...

Karen Read Will Face Another Murder Trial

Woman Accused of Killing
Cop Beau Can Be Retried

Aug 23, 2024 12:07 PM CDT

Woman Accused of Killing Cop Beau Can Be Retried

Judge cites lack of verdict in rejecting claim that jurors decided Karen Read was not guilty on 2 charges

(Newser) - Prosecutors can retry Karen Read for the murder of her police officer boyfriend, a Massachusetts judge said in a ruling issued Friday, setting the stage for a new trial to begin Jan. 27. Read is accused of drunkenly hitting Boston police officer John O'Keefe with her SUV outside a...

Quest to Free Inmate With DNA
Test Made Things Worse

Jun 17, 2022 5:10 PM CDT

Quest to Free Inmate With DNA Test Made Things Worse

New evidence implicates him in another murder he'd been acquitted of 25 years ago

(Newser) - DNA evidence has increasingly been used to help free persons wrongly convicted of crimes they didn't commit. In a three-decade-old case out of Florida, however, authorities say it did just the opposite and proved that a man acquitted of murder was actually the killer all along. Per the New ...

Manafort Case Gets Tossed

Dec 18, 2019 6:40 PM CST

Manafort Case Gets Tossed

So a hedge against a possible Trump pardon is lost

(Newser) - A New York judge threw out state mortgage fraud charges against Paul Manafort, ruling Wednesday that the criminal case was too similar to one that has already landed President Trump's former campaign chairman in federal prison, the AP reports. The ruling was a blow to what had widely been...

Ohio Wants to Kill a Man
Who Survived His 'Execution'

Jun 10, 2015 12:18 PM CDT

Ohio Wants to Kill a Man Who Survived His 'Execution'

Lawyers say 2nd attempt to kill Romell Broom in Ohio would be unconstitutional

(Newser) - Six years ago, the state of Ohio tried to execute Romell Broom for raping and killing a 14-year-old girl. That execution was unsuccessful—making Broom the country's only survivor of a botched lethal injection, the AP notes. Now his lawyers are trying to prevent him from having to go...

Double Jeopardy
May Save Knox
From Extradition

Jan 31, 2014 7:52 AM CST

Double Jeopardy May Save Knox From Extradition

Italian cops stop co-accused near border

(Newser) - Amanda Knox has once again been found guilty of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, but will she be sent back to Italy to serve a 28-year sentence? Legal experts say any attempts to extradite the Seattle resident are unlikely to begin until the appeals process has finished, and since...