Category Archives: Defense Acquittal

Murder charges were dismissed today against the 57-year-old McCloud man accused of killing 15-year-old Hannah Marie Zaccaglini in 1997.

Ah, the old “not my grinder” alibi. The rapper known as 2 Chainz was found not guilty Wednesday on the marijuana charges he picked up when his tour van was caught speeding on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. 2Chainz leaving the district … Continue reading →

  Uncredited Retired Mexican Army General Tomas Angeles Dauahare, center, is escorted by unidentified members of his legal team as he leaves the Altiplano maximum security prison in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, April 18, 2013. Federal prosecutors have dropped … Continue reading →

A Mexican judge on Monday acquitted a former drug czar who was charged with organized crime after he allegedly accepted $450,000 to leak details of police operations against members of the Pacific cartel, an alliance once led by the Sinaloa … Continue reading →

  TIM CARPENTER/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Kirk Bloodsworth   Maryland fisherman Kirk Bloods-worth’s journey from death row to freedom is raw material for a cinematic thriller. “From the moment I was arrested until the moment I was released, I told anyone and … Continue reading →

  View full sizeLoverne Bollwage Blackledge … drug conviction overturned. MOBILE, Alabama – A federal appeals court has overturned the drug conviction of a Gulf Shores woman accused of participating in a conspiracy centered on a Foley auto body shop involving some 100 … Continue reading →

    Daniel Whalon appears at a motion hearing at Vermont District Court in Burlington on Tuesday April 9, 2013. Whalon is charged in the 2011 death of Ralph Bell. / EMILY McMANAMY/Free Press ZOOM Daniel Michael Whalon is arraigned … Continue reading →

Mistrial declared in Miami police killing   Buy Photo Dennis Escobar ties his necktieTuesday morning before the jury is sent again to deliberate in the 1988 murder of Miami police officer, Victor Estafan. WALTER MICHOT / MIAMI HERALD STAFF BY … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON — A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a D.C. nightclub owner charged with drug conspiracy — 2 ½ years after his previous conviction was tossed out because police used a global positioning device to track … Continue reading →

A verdict of NOT GUILTY has come forth in the trial of Mendeecees Harris, the father of reality star Yandy Smith‘s newborn son and former “Love and Hip Hop” cast member who was charged with 8 counts of sexual assault against a … Continue reading →