Aug 08, 2019 · Thompson pleads guilty to murder. Kandes Carter August 8, 2019. Jury deliberations were already well underway in Janeal Jerome Thompson’s trial for first-degree murder when he pleaded guilty to all counts Monday morning in Charles County Circuit Court before Judge Hayward James “Jay” West. Thompson, 27, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder …
The prosecutorial misconduct in Thompson's case was no anomaly. According to a report by the Innocence Project of New Orleans, District Attorney Harry F. Connick's office withheld evidence favorable to the defense in at least nine death row cases. Four death row convictions were overturned because of the misconduct.
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Nov 24, 2021 · Travis McMichael shot Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, with a shotgun at close range. Bryan filmed the fatal encounter on his cellphone. Only after video footage of the fatal shooting leaked online May 5, 2020, did authorities arrest the trio on felony murder charges. In the video, Arbery jogs down a road as a white pickup truck blocks his path.
The first story about the Hunter Biden laptop appeared in the New York Post, a conservative tabloid. One of the bylines was that of a former producer for Fox News pundit Sean Hannity. The New York Times reported that a Post reporter who did much of the work declined to allow his byline to appear on the story.
The Journal published a story focusing on claims about an alleged deal proposal in China — claims made by a former Hunter Biden associate named Tony Bobulinski, who came forward after the laptop story broke to say that the senior Biden was well aware of his son’s arrangements.
Among others: Most mainstream news organizations, including NBC News, have not been granted access to the documents. NBC News asked by email, text, phone call and certified mail, and was ultimately denied.
The owner of a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, John Paul Mac Isaac, has said a man he believes was Hunter Biden left a water-damaged Apple computer at his shop in April 2019 for repairs and data recovery.
The subpoena, which was published by the New York Post, was signed by a federal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Wilmington. A photo of a receipt provided to Mac Isaac by FBI agents was published on the Fox News website.
And, although no evidence has emerged that the documents are the product of Russian disinformation, as some experts initially suggested, many questions remain about how the materials got into the hands of Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who has met with Russian agents in his effort to dig dirt on the Bidens.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, did not respond to a request for comment by NBC News. He has not asserted — nor has the Biden campaign — that the laptop did not belong to Hunter Biden. If he did leave the machine in Delaware, it would have marked at least the second time he has left behind a laptop.
On Christmas Eve 1975, police are called to a grisly scene at a furniture store in Winter Garden. Police focus in on the owner, who was shot and survived. Story by LEONORA LaPETER ANTON Times Staff Writer Published Nov. 26, 2018. T he phone rang after Robert Eagan and his wife had put the presents under the Christmas tree.
The last to die, Ruiz said, was Charlie Mays , a 35-year-old father of four and crew chief at a nearby orange grove. He’d been shot once in the chest and once in the upper back — and struck in the forehead with the crank, which lay on his hand. The soles of his sneakers were matted with dried blood.
APM Reports found that, during jury selection for hundreds of criminal trials over the past 26 years, District Attorney Doug Evans and his assistants struck black prospective jurors at 4.4 times the rate they struck white prospective jurors. To conduct this analysis, "In the Dark" reporters reviewed decades' worth of court dockets to compile a list of every trial prosecuted by Evans' office since 1992. They then collected the records of these trials at eight courthouses in Mississippi's Fifth Circuit Court District, as well as the state Supreme Court and the state archives in Jackson.
The note appears to say that Hallmon told law enforcement that on the morning of the murders, Curtis Flowers ran home "like in a rage.".
District Attorney Doug Evans has brought the case of Curtis Flowers to trial six times. Evans has been in office for 26 years. He was elected district attorney of the Fifth Circuit Court of Mississippi in 1991 and has won re-election ever since. Evans has run unopposed in all but one of those re-elections.
Ed McChristian gave a statement to law enforcement on August 15, 1996 — nearly a month after the murders. McChristian also testified at trial. McChristian told APM Reports that he recalled seeing Flowers walk by his house at some point that summer but had never remembered the exact date. McChristian said that when John Johnson, the D.A.'s investigator, questioned him, Johnson said that he already knew the date that McChristian saw Flowers — and that it was July 16, 1996 — the day of the murders. Johnson said someone had told him that McChristian had seen Flowers but wouldn't disclose who. McChristian told APM Reports that he wouldn't have been able to name an exact date without Johnson supplying one. "I wasn't even really sure," McChristian said. "They had more about it than I did." McChristian told APM Reports that he didn't want to testify at Flowers' trials, but he worried that he might get fined or even put in jail if he refused.
Vera Latham. Vera Latham gave a statement to law enforcement on September 3, 1996, according to documents turned over by the state as part of the Flowers case. In the statement, Latham says she saw Flowers on the morning of the murders. Latham never testified at trial.
The notes appear to say that Daniels said she saw Flowers on the morning of the murders. However, Daniels told APM Reports that she did not see Flowers on the morning of the murders.
Danny Joe Lott. Danny Joe Lott gave a statement to law enforcement on May 29, 1997 — nearly 11 months after the murders. Lott never testified at trial. Lott told APM Reports that he was outside drinking a beer one day when some officers pulled up and told him to come with them to the police station.