>Shorter sentence recommended for Marriam Oliver
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state's clemency board on Friday recommended a shortened sentence for a woman who is in the midst of a 22-year sentence for her role in a deadly group attack on a...
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Washington state's clemency board on Friday recommended a shortened sentence for a woman who is in the midst of a 22-year sentence for her role in a deadly group attack on a 64-year-old man that...
View Article>Inslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the...
View Article>Shorter sentence denied in 2001 Wash. murder case
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman serving 22 years for her role in a deadly group attack on a...
View ArticleFormer Woodland Park cop sentenced to five years for attempted assault on girl
Calling his crimes “horrible” and “mind-boggling” a judge Wednesday sentenced former police officer Steven E. Vigorito, Jr. to five years in prison for attempting to arrange to have sex with a girl...
View ArticleBehind one Supreme Court case, the tale of forgiveness for sister's killer
In her final moments, Nancy Bishop Langert somehow summoned the strength to crawl across the basement floor. There, lying beside her husband, she used her index finger to write a message – in her own...
View ArticleFan punches woman: Jets' fan who punches Pats' fan in face is convicted...
The Jets’ fan who punched a woman at Sunday's game is a convicted killer who did time in prison. Fox News on Oct. 22, is reporting this morning that the man on the video punching the woman dressed in...
View ArticleVictim’s mother praises verdicts
The grief-stricken mom of an innocent teen murdered in a gang turf war two years ago said yesterday’s convictions of her son’s killers have finally brought her some relief. “It doesn’t make me happy...
View ArticlePivotal parole decision in teen girl's death
Tony Roman Nose was two months shy of his 18th birthday when prosecutors say he raped and killed a teenage girl, stabbing her 29 times with a screwdriver. He was convicted in 2001 and received a...
View Article51 years for former Delray teen who murdered mother's boyfriend
Berenice Juarez, who was 16 when she stabbed to death her mother's boyfriend, on Thursday received a new sentence of 51 years in prison.lRelated Palm Beach County NewsBerenice JuarezSee all related 8...
View ArticleMonongalia County Teen Sentenced for Involvement in Skylar Neese's Murder
Monongalia County Circuit Judge Russell Clawges has sentenced a Monongalia County teen for her involvement in the July 2012 murder of Skylar Neese. Judge Clawges sentenced Shoaf to 30 years in a state...
View ArticleFormer Delray teen who murdered mother's boyfriend to be re-sentenced
Before Berenice Juarez became a convicted killer at age 18, the Delray Beach teen suffered the horror of childhood sexual abuse and witnessed violent attacks in her home. Her resulting psychological...
View ArticleKing gets 28-year prison sentence for killing mail-order bride
EVERETT -- Adult life has been a long slide for Indle King Jr. From a University of Chicago MBA to a petty rental income. From an Eagle Scout to a lying manipulator. From the husband of a beautiful...
View Article>King gets 28-year prison sentence for killing mail-order bride
EVERETT -- Adult life has been a long slide for Indle King Jr. From a University of Chicago MBA to a petty rental income. From an Eagle Scout to a lying manipulator. From the husband of a beautiful...
View Article>Mom who left toddler to die strapped in car faces prison
A Snohomish County mother who left her young daughter to die strapped into a car while she tried to buy drugs now faces more than a decade in prison. Nearly two years have passed since 19-month-old...
View ArticleProsecutors plan to argue for death sentence for Covington
TAMPA — Edward Covington says the children he murdered loved him. He says he was close to their mother’s family, that before he brutally murdered and mutilated Lisa Freiberg and her two young children,...
View ArticleCourt eases power of judges in juvenile murder cases
Detroit — The case of an overnight attack on a couple in a small Michigan town could rewrite the rules for life sentences for teens convicted of murder. The state appeals court said juries — not judges...
View ArticleRedmond 5 defendant gets resentencing hearing
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A defendant in the notorious "Redmond 5" murder case will seek a lighter sentence when he returns to court Tuesday after more than a decade behind bars. Justin Link, 31, was a...
View ArticlePhilip Chism begins trial today for allegedly killing, raping teacher
Philip Chism, who allegedly told police that he “became the teacher” when he slashed the throat of Danvers High educator Colleen E. Ritzer, goes on trial today for the 2013 killing and could become the...
View ArticleHeather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
View ArticleWhy I didn't want my son's killer to spend his life in jail (guest column)
My only son, Ronald D. Simpson III, was murdered on Fathers Day 2001. He was 21 years old. His killer was a 14-year old boy who was under the mistaken impression that my son was physically abusing his...
View ArticleTeen killers could walk
Horrified prosecutors said yesterday’s high court ruling making Bay State teen killers eligible for parole was a bombshell they dreaded broaching with the victims’ families at Christmastime. “I’m...
View ArticleDueling portraits of Massachusetts teen charged in teacher's murder
SALEM, Mass. - A Massachusetts prosecutor on Monday described a 16-year-old former high school student charged with murdering his math teacher as a remorseless killer, while his attorney portrayed him...
View ArticleHeather Mack’s Boyfriend Gets 18 Years For Killing Her Mother
Mack claims that she didn’t take part in the actual murder of her mother, and maintains that she was in a panic when she helped her boyfriend stuff her body into a suitcase. Nonetheless, the horrific...
View ArticleMichigan Supreme Court: Not so fast on resentencing juvenile lifers
LANSING — A U.S. Supreme Court decision that makes mandatory life sentences without parole unconstitutional for juveniles should not be applied retroactively, a divided Michigan Supreme Court said...
View ArticleMan gets 58-year sentence for pot-dispute killing
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Everett, Wash., has sentenced a Tulalip-area man to 58 years in prison for fatally shooting another man in a...
View Article>Man gets 58-year sentence for pot-dispute killing
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A judge in Everett, Wash., has sentenced a Tulalip-area man to 58 years in prison for fatally shooting another man in a...
View ArticleCop killer sentenced to death
If at first you don't succeed …. After only four hours of deliberation, jurors sentenced cop killer Ronell Wilson to death by lethal injection for the murders of undercover cops James Nemorin and...
View ArticleConvicted Dunbar Village rapist sentenced to 60 years in prison
WEST PALM BEACH – By all accounts, Nathan Walker started out in life with little chance to make it. Raised in extreme poverty in a violent neighborhood, by the time he was 16 he became one of several...
View Article>Girl tells about slaying by gang
EVERETT -- Marriam Oliver told the jury yesterday that when Barbara Opel was assigning roles to a gang of teenagers the night they killed her employer, she couldn't hear every word. She knew she was...
View ArticleInslee denies shorter sentence for Marriam Oliver
Gov. Jay Inslee has denied a recommendation from the state's clemency board to grant a shortened sentence to a woman who is in the midst of a...
View Article>Heather Opel, 14, is sentenced to 22 years for role in murder
EVERETT -- Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court. "Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why," said...
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