Ex-banker Russell Laffitte cannot get a fair trial from a jury chosen from only the Lowcountry, where anti-Laffitte saturation media coverage has biased people, Laffitte’s lawyers argue.
Desmond Webb, 37, denied his previous admission of guilt the week before his sentencing. He faced a maximum of 10 years in prison under the terms of the plea.
President Donald Trump has appealed his "hush money" conviction, aiming to overturn the verdict that made him the first U.S.
A Rochester man convicted last month of killing a Gates business owner as she left her workplace has been sentenced to life in prison.
Prosecutors are urging a federal judge to sentence the former Democratic senator from New Jersey to 15 years in prison.