A jury has found former internet troll Douglass Mackey guilty of violating people’s constitutional right to vote by disseminating memes encouraging Democrats to vote via text in the 2016 election. The decision comes after more than four days of deliberations. During the two-week trial, the prosecution presented testimony by MicroChip, …
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T he first call for help came before sunset on the evening of July 15, 2021. “I’m throwing up blood,” Ta’Neasha Chappell, a 23-year-old mother in pretrial detention at the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown, a small town amid the hills and farms of southern Indiana, told the staff via …
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Disbarred South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his murder trial Thursday and admitted to lying to police and stealing money from clients. During several hours of testimony, he sniveled as he told jurors that although he lied to authorities about his whereabouts the night of the murders, …
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes tried to leave the country after she was found guilty of fraud last year, according to prosecutors in her case. In a new court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, prosecutors allege that they learned on Jan. 23, several weeks after she was convicted, that the scammer …
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Pamela Winn was once inmate number 54458-019. Today she is the founder of RestoreHER, a reentry advocacy organization led by and for women of color based in Georgia. That’s because when she was incarcerated, Winn experienced a trauma no living being should ever have to. In 2008, Winn was facing …
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On Thursday morning, from the White House lawn, President Joe Biden announced Brittney Griner would be coming home, proclaiming “I’m proud that today we have made one more family whole again.” But among the millions of families made incomplete by the American carceral state, many won’t share his pride in …
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Despite her best efforts, Elizabeth Holmes will spend the next decade-plus behind bars. On Friday, a judge sentenced the Theranos founder to 11 years and 3 months in prison, plus three years of supervised release. Judge Edward J. Davila of California’s Northern District said he believed it was Holmes’ hubris …
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In surreptitious cell phone recordings, Courtney Clenney can be heard berating her boyfriend Christian Obumseli, hurling insults at him, calling him a racist slur, and seemingly slapping him. The videos were taken by Obumseli on his cell phone some time before April 3, when Clenney fatally stabbed him with a …
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John Oliver was off last week, which meant he didn’t have a chance to do a show at the very height of then–UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s unprecedented political implosion. (After becoming PM on Sept. 6, she was forced to resign on Oct. 25 due to a Benny Hill-ian litany …
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Nearly six years after two girls were found dead on a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, authorities there announced on Monday they’d apprehended a suspect in their murders. Richard M. Allen, 50, also from Delphi, was arrested on Wednesday, and charged on Friday with the murders of Liberty “Libby” German, …
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