Source: NurPhoto / Getty Heather Heyer’s Charlottesville Killer Found Guilty Of Murder The man who killed protester Heather Heyer with his speeding car during the Charlottesville riots in 2017 was found guilty today of murder according to The Daily Beast . James Fields committed first-degree murder in addition to five counts of aggravated malicious wounding, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count of failing to stop at an accident involving a death. He’s gonna sit down for a LONG time. A nine-man seven-woman jury, which only comprised of one person of color, decided Field’s fate. His defense lawyers’ arguments on his behalf were pretty gross: Field’s defense lawyers, John Hill and Denise Lunsford and former Albemarle County commonwealth’s attorney, on the other hand, evoked a simple defense: the 21-year-old was acting out of self-defense. “You’re here to decide why this event took place,” Hill told the jury in his opening statement. “Was Mr. Fields in fear of serious bodily injury or death?” That’s right, they argued that HE, the killer, was in fear for his life. Get all the way the f**k outta here with THAT bulls#!t. Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty (Heather’s mom, Susan Bro) Sentencing begins on Monday, Fields is facing six life sentences plus an additional 70 years if he’s given the max on each charge. Good. Rot.
Stop whatever you are doing and do the chicken dance, THGers. This is amazing news. Kristen Wiig has landed a unique role on Arrested Development Season 4 , as Vulture confirms the beloved actress will come on board the returning sitcom as a young version of Lucille Bluth . Like we said: amazing. Following years off the air, Arrested Development will return in May on a special deal with Netflix. All Season 4 episodes will be released on the same day and each will focus on a different member of TV’s funniest family. These will then lead into an eventual Arrested Development movie. Need we say it again? Okay: AMAZING.
Two women in East Texas have been convicted of kidnapping after a jury agreed they abducted a boy when he was eight months old and help him for eight years. Gloria Walker faces life in prison, while daughter Krystle Tanner could spend 20 years behind bars, because they grabbed Miguel Morin in 2004, although both women testified the child’s mother actually sold the baby to them at the time. But prosecutors convinced jury members that Tanner and Walked hid Miguel from authorities over the last eight years, while also denying him basic medical care and keeping him out of school. Tanner babysat Miguel and snatched him from his Houston apartment prior to his first birthday. She and her mother then renamed him Jaquan. “If Ms. Walker and Ms. Tanner had a right to little Miguel, why wasn’t he in school?” San Augustine County District Attorney Kevin Dutton argued, countering the defendents’ claims. “Why didn’t you get the rest of his immunizations? Why didn’t you take him to the dentist? They knew they didn’t have that right. They knew they couldn’t put that baby out in the public eye.” Walker told the jury she was suffering from health problems and had little contact with the boy, but Tanner contradicted this testimony and said Walker lived with the child for extended periods of time. Miguel has been informed of the true identity of his parents and siblings and has been having weekly joint therapy sessions with the family since he was found.
Ravi could get up to 10 years in jail for spying on his roommate, Tyler Clementi. By Gil Kaufman Tyler Clementi Photo: Facebook A jury found former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi guilty of hate crimes and invasion of privacy on Friday (March 16), bringing to an end a case that helped spark a national debate on cyberbullying. Ravi was accused of setting up a webcam to spy on his roommate, Tyler Clementi , as Clementi engaged in a consensual sexual encounter with another man in the pair’s Rutgers dorm room. Clementi leaped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in New York three days after learning that Ravi viewed the encounter and, according to testimony, invited others to watch and discuss what he saw online. According to The New York Times, in addition to the hate crimes, the jury found Ravi guilty of tampering with evidence and witnesses because of his efforts to change Twitter and text messages in which he had encouraged others to watch the webcam footage. Ravi, 20, faced 15 counts of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, tampering with evidence and a witness and hindering apprehension. The jury concluded that Ravi had not intended to intimidate Clementi on the first night that he secretly switched on the webcam to watch his roommate’s actions. But they concluded that Clementi had reason to believe that he was targeted because he was gay (based on the language in some of the texts), and on one count, the jury found that Ravi knew Clementi, 18, would feel intimidated by his actions. Because he was found guilty on at least one question of whether his actions rose to the level of bias discrimination, Ravi could face the maximum penalty of up to 10 years in jail and deportation to his native India. “These acts were purposeful, they were intentional and they were planned,” prosecutor Julia L. McClure told the jury on the first day of the trial, which lasted three weeks and concluded with two days of deliberation by the jury. Later in the trial, she told the jury that Ravi “was bothered by Tyler Clementi’s sexual orientation.” In a rare instance, almost none of the facts in the case were in dispute, as Ravi’s lawyers agreed that their client had set up the webcam and then gone to a friend’s room and viewed Clementi kissing the unidentified man. They also did not deny that Ravi sent Twitter and text messages to others describing what he’d seen and urging them to watch a second viewing. Ravi’s attorneys painted their client as an immature college student who acted thoughtlessly and made a mistake, but denied that he’d been spurred by homophobia. “He hasn’t lived long enough to have any experience with homosexuality or gays,” attorney Steven Altman said during closing arguments. “He doesn’t know anything about it. He just graduated high school.” Clementi’s suicide set off a national debate about bullying and intimidation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth the resulted in public messages of support from everyone from openly gay talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to singer Ciara, “America’s Next Top Model” personality Jay Manuel, President Obama, “One Tree Hill” actress Sophia Bush and “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe . Share your thoughts on the verdict in the Tyler Clementi cyberbullying case on our Facebook page.
A crime scene investigator testified Friday he found the hair in Anthony#39;s car trunk near the wheel well after the Florida woman#39;s 2-year-old daughter Caylee was reported missing. It was just a strand of hair, but it could play a critical role in the murder trial of Casey Anthony. Gerardo Bloise of the Orange County Sheriff#39;s Office told the jury in the Orlando courtroom how he marked the hair as well as dirt, leaves and other debris in the trunk of the Pontiac Sunfire. Bloise also b
Filed under: Celebrity Justice , John Travolta One of John Travolta’s lawyers testified in the extortion trial today that one of the defendants claimed to have a document suggesting Travolta wanted his son, Jett, dead or was negligent in supervising his son.Allyson Maynard-Gibson told the jury … Permalink
Filed under: Celebrity Justice , John Travolta John Travolta made his first public statement acknowledging Jett had autism.Travolta told the jury in the Bahamas extortion case that Jett was autistic and suffered seizures every 5 to 10 days. Travolta said, “He was autistic.
