KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A Kansas City man who has been jailed for more than 40 years for three murders was wrongfully convicted in 1979 and will be released, a Missouri judge ruled Tuesday. Kevin Strickland, 62, has always maintained that he was home watching television and had nothing to do with the killings, which happened when…
Supreme Court Upholds Conviction of 2 Charlottesville Rioters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction of two members of a group billing itself as the “premier MMA (mixed martial arts) club of the Alt-Right” but that one extremist watchdog described as a “racist fight club” whose members engaged in violent acts at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The…
Santa Ana Jail Escapee Convicted in Breakout and Kidnapping of Cab Driver
SANTA ANA—The first of three Orange County Jail inmates to be tried for a brazen January 2016 breakout was convicted April 8 of kidnapping, a day after he was convicted of the escape, and faces a maximum of nearly nine years in state prison. Bac Tien Duong, 48, was acquitted April 7 of felony kidnapping…
Appeals Court Upholds Bribery Conviction of Chinese Businessman Linked to Hunter Biden
An appeals court in Manhattan ruled Tuesday to uphold a bribery conviction for Patrick Ho, a Chinese businessman and think tank head with links to Hunter Biden, son of former vice president Joe Biden. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan found Ho was properly convicted by a federal jury in December 2018…
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