It took a group of wrongfully convicted people who were imprisoned based on Scarcella’s overzealous policing to reveal the lie. “We pledged that whoever got out of prison first would spread the word that there were many men in jail for crimes they didn’t commit,” says the 58-year-old Derrick Hamilton, now a paralegal teaching at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law.
He was falsely convicted of murder. So he studied law in prison – and freed himself
Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during President Biden's trip to California over the weekend
Biden was in Los Angeles for a campaign fundraiser after returning from the G7 meeting in Italy. It was not immediately clear whether the Secret Service agent's work assignment was connected to the president's visit.
The agent was returning from work at the time of the robbery Saturday night and fired a service weapon during the confrontation, but it wasn't known if the assailants were struck, according to a statement by the Secret Service. The agent wasn't injured, the statement said.
The altercation occurred around 9:36 p.m. local time at the Tustin Fields residential community in Orange County. The suspect or suspects weren't located, but a 2004-2006 silver Infiniti FX35 or similar vehicle was seen leaving the scene, Tustin police said.
Moore to pardon 175,000 marijuana convictions in Maryland
The pardons will be one of the country’s biggest acts of clemency involving the drug that’s now widely used recreationally.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Moore said it will be a step to heal decades of social and economic injustice that disproportionately harmed people of color.
Police: 2 killed, multiple injured in shooting at Round Rock Juneteenth celebration
Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said in a media briefing the shooting began around 10:50 p.m. at Old Settlers Park after a fight between two groups who were at the event.
“The unfortunate part is that we had innocent victims as a result of this reckless action of certain subjects,” Banks said. “We’re here to celebrate Juneteenth and the unfortunate part is these folks could care less about someone’s life and take someone’s life and on a day we’re here to celebrate community.”
Banks shared that police officers and members of the Round Rock Fire Department who were there immediately tried to help the victims of the shooting
Multiple People Wounded In Shooting At Michigan Splash Pad
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard told reporters that “it sounds like we have nine, maybe 10 victims with gunshot wounds, victims of varying kinds of injuries.”
Authorities said they believed they had a possible suspect contained in a home nearby. A handgun and three empty magazines were recovered, according to the sheriff.
“So, preliminarily, it looks like the suspect fired potentially 28 times, reloading multiple times,” Bouchard said.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said there were “numerous wounded victims.”
$50M wrongful conviction case highlights decades of Chicago police forced confessions
The payout for the "Marquette Park 4," as they became known after the infamous murder case, is the largest since at least 2008 for reversed convictions in Chicago, a city that’s racked up over $300 million in lawsuit settlements for wrongfully convicted people, according to a USA TODAY review of documents from Chicago's Department of Law.
Illinois has been dubbed by the Innocence Project, a nonprofit legal organization that's helped to successfully overturn over 300 convictions nationwide through DNA-based exonerations, as "the wrongful conviction capital of the country." Illinois’ 540 exonerations of wrongfully convicted people tops the ranking of states, followed by Texas, with 474 exonerations, according to the Innocence Project.
A judge orders Alex Jones to sell personal assets, but Infowars can continue for now
Friday was a day of reckoning for Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and a long-awaited culmination for the Sandy Hook families who sued Jones for defamation. A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has decided that Jones must sell off his personal assets through a Chapter 7 liquidation in order to pay families nearly $1.5 billion in damages for spreading lies that the 2012 school shooting never happened.
A trustee was appointed Friday afternoon to take over control of Jones’ personal estate. Liquidation means Jones' personal belongings — from his gun collection to his jewelry — will be auctioned to the highest bidder in something of a fire sale. He could even lose access to his account on X, where he currently has 2.3 million followers. However, Texas law allows him to keep his home, which is worth more than $2 million.
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