All posts tagged "Sentence"

Gov. Mike Parson (R-MO) has commuted the sentence of a former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach who was jailed for a drunk driving crash that seriously injured a 5-year-old girl.

According to Katie Moore and Jonathan Sherman writing for The Kansas City Star, Britt Reid "will be under house arrest until Oct. 31, 2025, according to Parson’s office. Reid, who is the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, pleaded guilty to a single felony charge of driving while intoxicated, causing serious injury, for the Feb. 4, 2021, crash."

"Ariel Young, who was 5 years old at the time, was a passenger in one of two vehicles that Britt Reid’s pickup slammed into on the side of the entrance ramp along Interstate 435, near the team’s practice facility," said the report. "Prosecutors said Britt Reid was driving 83 mph two seconds before the collision and had a serum blood alcohol content of 0.113 about two hours after the crash. The legal limit is 0.08, according to Missouri law. Ariel was in a coma for 11 days."...

A single inscrutable sentence in the Supreme Court’s notice that they’ll consider former President Donald Trump’s presidential immunity claim signals their intention to toss it, legal experts said Thursday.

This argument appears in an analysis from NBC filed Thursday from Lawrence Hurley, who set himself the challenge of looking at one 29-word sentence and answering, “What the hell do these words even mean?”

The sentence is also the question the Supreme Court has limited itself to answering: “Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”...

Former United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama and MSNBC political analyst Joyce Vance told host Andrea Mitchell on Friday that ex-President Donald Trump's "likely" first potential conviction will lead to harsher sentences if he is found guilty of the dozens of criminal charges that were filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith, and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

AlterNet noted on Wednesday that the prosecutors allege that Trump:

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A prominent criminal defense attorney said Thursday that despite Donald Trump’s outward swagger, his mounting legal troubles have left the former president worried about serving time behind bars.

“He's facing 71 felony counts, you may have at least two more indictments, one of these cases or more is going to get tried, right?" A. Scott Bolden said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”

“And if you don't plea out, and you get convicted in state court and or federal court, and you've never been in trouble before, there's a high probability that you're going to be sentenced,” Bolden said. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday night refused to temporarily halt the execution of death row inmate Troy Davis, giving Georgia officials clearance to carry out his death sentence.

LONDON – A British juror was warned by a judge on Tuesday that she faces jail for contacting a defendant on the social networking site Facebook, causing the collapse of a major drugs trial.