All posts tagged "Criminal Trial"

A rambling social media screed in which Donald Trump dubbed court witnesses "weaklings and cowards" could be seen as an “implicit threat," a Washington Post opinion piece said Wednesday.

The former U.S. president took to Truth Social Tuesday night, soon after reports surfaced that Mark Meadows, his co-defendant and former chief of staff, had been granted immunity to deliver key testimony in the federal trial involving attempts to overturn the 2020 election result.

“Some people would make that deal, but they are weaklings and cowards, and so bad for the future [of] our Failing Nation,” Trump wrote. ...

Georgia prosecutors building a criminal case against Donald Trump want to flip as many co-defendants as possible so they can focus on a smaller number of key players in what they say was a racketeering scheme to overturn a U.S. presidential election, legal experts say.

“They’re trying to shake as many of these co-defendants loose as they can,” Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor, told the Associated Press Tuesday, “and focus on the people they want to focus on and just step on the accelerator and get things moving.”

This tactic has seen Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis secure deals for Trump attorneys Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and, most recently Jenna Ellis, who cried in court as she submitted her plea Tuesday morning. Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall has also pleaded guilty....

Donald Trump should get "significant home confinement" because he might trade top-secret government info for food or stamps in prison, according to the former president's previous lawyer.

Michael Cohen, who recently issued a warning to Trump's co-defendant and valet Walt Nauta and suggested Trump "may have to have a public defender" because he doesn't listen to counsel, appeared on CNN on Wednesday to discuss recent developments in the documents case.

Cohen was asked in an interview with the host if he thinks Trump might face the penalty of jail time. He said he thinks Trump "actually knows that jail in and of itself is probably unlikely." ...

Rick Wilson lauded the seditious conspiracy convictions of four members of the Proud Boys for their roles in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

But the former longtime Republican strategist, who in 2019 co-founded the Lincoln Project to fight the GOP’s growing autocratic tendencies of the Trump era, believes that putting the foot soldiers of Jan. 6 behind bars is just the first step.

Wilson now wants to see the shot callers held to account and is urging special counsel Jack Smith to move up the food chain....

A special education student was reportedly forced to eat his own vomit with a spoon, and five employees at the school are now facing charges.

Brownsburg Police Department in Indiana announced that several individuals at Brown Elementary were disciplined as a result of the incident, which was recorded on video, according to local news reports.

"The Hendricks County Prosecutor’s Office filed criminal charges against five staff members in connection with an incident in which a special education student was mistreated during lunch. Brownsburg Community School Police learned about the incident on April 12, although it occurred during a lunch period in February, according to the investigation," Fox59 reported on Tuesday....

George Zimmerman faces charges of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Editor’s note: This is a live feed of a criminal trial and may contain graphic imagery and language that could offend some viewers.

Watch live, broadcast via NBC News on July 12.

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