by Beth Karas | Jul 20, 2016 | News |
I know that we typically discuss crimes and other legal topics making news in the U.S. but a recent story about a murder in Pakistan has caught my attention. Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch, 25, was murdered by her brother Waseem last week in what he called...
by Beth Karas | Jul 15, 2016 | News |
UPDATE on July 18, 2016: Read Judge Williams’s decision acquitting Lt. Brian Rice of all charges in the death of Freddie Gray. Like all of you, my thoughts are with the French today as they grapple with yet another terrorist attack. Yesterday’s senseless...
by Beth Karas | Jul 11, 2016 | News, Sievers |
Mark Sievers lost his parental rights to his two daughters at a hearing a few weeks ago. Custody was awarded to the girls’ maternal grandmother, Mary Ann Groves, who moved from Connecticut to Florida after her daughter Teresa’s brutal murder in late June...
by Beth Karas | Jul 5, 2016 | News, Charles Merritt, Bill Cosby, Freddie Gray |
UPDATE on July 6 at 7:50 am: Oscar Pistorius was sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Murder carries a minimum of 15 years in prison unless the judge finds reason to mitigate. (He had received a five year sentence for the...
by Beth Karas | Jul 1, 2016 | News |
10:30 am July 1, 2016: The Massachusetts teen who encouraged her boyfriend to commit suicide by asphyxiation in the cab of his truck will stand trial as a youthful offender for involuntary manslaughter. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts just handed down its...
by Beth Karas | Jun 24, 2016 | News, Freddie Gray |
UPDATE on June 29, 2016: Join me today for a live chat at 6:00 p.m. EST. I will then interview Page Croyder at 8:00 p.m. for her take on the latest developments in the Freddie Gray/Baltimore Cop cases. Check out the podcast page later in the evening to listen to it....