Sidney K. Powell, a member of Donald J. Trump’s legal team after he lost the 2020 election, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to six misdemeanor counts instead of facing a criminal trial that was to begin next week. She was among 19 defendants, including Mr. Trump, who were indicted in August for their efforts to…
Former President Donald J. Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday and waived his arraignment in the Georgia criminal case charging him and 18 of his allies with interfering in the 2020 election. His plea came as Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, a fellow Republican, dismissed demands from the former president and some of his supporters…
A Massachusetts man who searched online for an Arizona election official’s address and name along with the words “how to kill” pleaded guilty on Friday to making a bomb threat to the official, the U.S. Justice Department said. The man, James W. Clark, 38, of Falmouth, Mass., sent the threat on Feb. 14, 2021, by…
A local prosecutor in California has secured what he says is the state’s first murder conviction in connection with a fatal fentanyl overdose, marking a legal milestone in the efforts to curb sales of the increasingly deadly drug. The prosecutor, District Attorney Morgan Gire of Placer County, said that a 21-year-old man pleaded guilty last…
A Chicago woman accused of conspiring to kill her mother and putting her body in a suitcase while on vacation in Bali nearly a decade ago pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday. Heather L. Mack, 27, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Illinois to one count of conspiring to kill a U.S. national…
The only person charged in the 2020 killing of Vanessa Guillen, a soldier at Fort Hood in Texas, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four counts including accessory to murder after the fact. Cecily Aguilar, 24, faces a maximum possible penalty of 30 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $1 million fine,…
J. Alexander Kueng was a rookie Minneapolis police officer when he held Mr. Floyd down while a fellow officer fatally knelt on his neck.
His parents are charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting last year at a high school in Oxford, Mich., that killed four teenagers.