by Beth Karas | Jan 29, 2016 | News, Member News |
UPDATE at 12:20 p.m. ET: Couch will remain in juvenile detention. He’s not moving to an adult jail, at least not yet. Ethan Couch returned to the U.S. yesterday after withdrawing his challenge to extradition from Mexico. He fled from Texas with his mother,...
by Beth Karas | Jan 27, 2016 | News, Member News, Jodi Arias |
Rapper Kareem “Lefty” Williams’s four-minute video about Jodi Arias seems to miss the point. Mitigation Specialist Maria de la Rosa opens the video with a short introduction that what’s to come is about raising awareness of post-traumatic...
by Beth Karas | Jan 26, 2016 | News, Charles Merritt, Member News |
UPDATE: Merritt was sick today. Though he was in court, he wasn’t feeling well and asked for more time. Merritt’s former attorney, David Call, was in court but he wasn’t formerly reappointed as Merritt’s attorney. Merritt reportedly said he...
by Beth Karas | Jan 25, 2016 | News, Bill Cosby, Member News |
My latest BK Live video discusses the upcoming hearing in Bill Cosby’s criminal case in Pennsylvania. Here’s the analysis I recently did for LawNewz.com on the same topic: The hearing on February 2 in Bill Cosby’s criminal case in Pennsylvania may...
by Beth Karas | Jan 21, 2016 | News, Charles Merritt, Freddie Gray, Member News |
Last October the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) heard argument in a Kansas death penalty case known as the Wichita Massacre. (I discussed it in the 10/16/15 BK Live at about the 9 minute mark.) In brief, over the course of a week in December 2000, two brothers,...
by Beth Karas | Jan 20, 2016 | News, Freddie Gray, Member News |
I watched the CNN-Baltimore Sun documentary, “Who Killed Freddie Gray,” twice last night. I then wrote a piece for Dan Abrams’s new site, LawNewz.com, with my reaction to it. Before I watched it, I took issue with the title which suggests someone...
