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Cory Fleming, a disgraced former South Carolina attorney who worked alongside convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh, has pleaded guilty to state charges that involve helping Murdaugh embezzle millions from clients at their law firm, The State reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, prosecutor Creighton Waters is pushing to throw the book at Fleming, although no sentencing recommendations have yet been released.

"Waters spent nearly an hour citing minute details of Fleming’s crimes, the largest of which involved a complex $4.3 million white collar theft orchestrated by Murdaugh to steer funds from an insurance settlement to Fleming and Murdaugh. Normally, at guilty pleas, prosecutors keep their summations of evidence brief," said the report, which noted that another Murdaugh accomplice, Russell Laffitte, was also present in the courtroom. "Laffitte, a former banker who was convicted in federal court last November, also faces state charges for those schemes. He was in court so his lawyers could discuss various pre-trial technical matters with Newman and Waters. Laffitte is appealing his federal sentence."...

DENVER (Reuters) - A question once posed by accused movie theater gunman James Holmes on a dating website, asking potential love interests, "Will you visit me in prison?" can be admitted as evidence at his murder trial, a Colorado judge ruled on Thursday.

As angry anti-racism protesters rallied outside the courthouse Monday, the woman at the centre of a landmark German neo-Nazi murder trial was the picture of calm.