CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett’s conviction for lying to police has come nearly three years after his report of a horrifying hate crime quickly became part of a polarized political landscape. A jury on Thursday found the former “Empire” actor guilty of staging a 2019 attack downtown Chicago and lying to police about it. A…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Four St. Louis police officers accused of wrongfully beating or helping cover up the beating of an undercover colleague during 2017 protests are set to go to trial this year. A judge on Friday set a trial date of Dec. 2 for Dustin Boone, Randy Hays, Christopher Myers and Bailey Colletta.…
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Jury selection begins Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with fatally shooting a St. Louis County police officer two years ago. Twenty-year-old Trenton Forster is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 33-year-old officer Blake Snyder,of Edwardsville. Police say Forster killed Snyder as the officer responded to a…
By ERIC TUCKER, CHAD DAY and MICHAEL BALSAMO , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Manafort signaled Friday that he intends to plead guilty ahead of a second trial as prosecutors filed new charging documents against the former Trump campaign chairman. The charges in Friday’s filing were contained a criminal information, a document that can…
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, STEPHEN BRAUN and JEFF HORWITZ , Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The judge in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial said Friday he has received threats and he fears for the “peace and safety” of the jurors deciding the fate of the former Trump campaign chairman. U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III…
By CHAD DAY, MATTHEW BARAKAT and MARY CLARE JALONICK , Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Closing arguments were expected Wednesday in the trial of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman accused of tax evasion and bank fraud. Manafort’s defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses. Manafort himself chose not to testify.…
By CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER , Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors will ask jurors Thursday to follow the money in the Paul Manafort trial, a trail they say shows that the former campaign chairman took millions from wealthy Ukrainian clients then hid it from banks and the IRS. Expected to testify were…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) Efforts continue to seat a jury in the felony invasion of privacy case of Governor Eric Greitens. The trial was expected to begin on Monday, but jury selection is taking longer than anticipated. Instead, day three of jury selection was held. defense attorney Jim Martin said in court that prosecutors claimed they…
St. Louis, MO (KTRS) It’s day three of jury selection in the felony invasion of privacy trial of Governor Eric Greitens. The trial was expected to start Monday, but jury selection is taking longer than anticipated. Here’s break down of the numbers – so far 85 of the 160 potential jurors have been questioned. The other…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — An attorney for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is urging a judge to halt all evidence-gathering as his trial gets underway on an invasion-of-privacy charge. Greitens’ attorney Jim Martin said Friday that a special examiner had extracted thousands of images from Greitens’ cellphone “and none were found” of a woman with whom…