• Attorney Ben Crump denies rumors that the beating of Tyre Nichols was fueled by an officer’s grudge.

• The brutal beating followed a pattern of the unit’s attacks on Black citizens, Crump said.

• Rumors on social media about pre-existing animosity between the men have harmed Nichols’ family, he said.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has denied rumors on social media that Tire Nichols’ beating was fueled by one of the officer’s personal grudges against him.

After five Memphis officers were fired and charged with murder in the beating of Nichols, an unverified Twitter post claimed there was a personal connection between

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Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo was on Tuesday reimbursed over $300,000 for legal fees he spent while defending himself in a federal civil case alleging he had raped a woman in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009.

The case was dismissed in June, after the judge found that the plaintiff’s lawyer was involved in misconduct so severe that it would be impossible for Ronaldo to have a fair trial.

US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey ruled the attorney representing the accuser Kathryn Mayorga, Leslie Stovall, pay Ronaldo $334,637.50. The court found Stovall owed the money after the attorney

A state appeals court panel has upheld the conviction of a woman serving three decades behind bars for the 2011 shooting death of her then-boyfriend’s wife in Boonton.

Antionette Stephen, 38, will remain in prison at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Hunterdon County after a two-judge panel in the New Jersey Appellate Court declined her pleas to introduce evidence she says prove her attorneys poorly represented her. Stephen pleaded guilty to murder in 2013 and tested against the man with whom she was having an affair, Kashif Parvaiz, during his 2015 trial. He was sentenced to life.

Parvaiz was

An attorney for Elliot Blair’s family claims that his head was likely “hit and dragged” by more than one person before dying while on a vacation in Mexico.

Blair, a public defender in California, was vacationing in Rosita, Mexico last month with his wife Kimberly Williams celebrating their one-year anniversary when he was found dead outside an entrance to a three-story hotel.

Mexican authorities have been inconsistent in their explanations for Blair’s death, but the family believes it was a murder.

Mexican authorities claim that his death “was the result of an unfortunate accident due to the fall of the

LITTLE ROCK — Attorney General Tim Griffin in a news conference Wednesday introduced the state’s first police dog trained to sniff out electronics.

Lucy, a yellow Labrador, has the ability to search for and locate electronics, which Griffin said will assist the state in ongoing efforts to stop crimes against children and those in possession of child pornography.

“We’re here today to talk about a new capability that we have here in the attorney general’s office that is going to strengthen our ability to protect children and be a great asset all over the state,” the attorney general said. “Not

WALTERBORO, SC (WCSC) – Much was made about a blue raincoat during day 11 of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial.

The disbarred Lowcountry attorney is charged in the June 7, 2021, killings of his wife, Maggie; and their youngest son, Paul.

Shelley Smith, who took care of Murdaugh’s mom, tested Monday that she saw Murdaugh at his parents’ home holding what she described as a blue tarp.