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Some January 6 defendants are being released from prison on federal judges’ orders pending an appeal in the United States Supreme Court centered on interpretations of obstructing an official proceeding as oral arguments approach. The Washington Post reported on federal judges’ decisions to release a “handful” of defendants amid the appeal in the Fischer v. United States case. Some have already been released, and others are scheduled to be released soon. “Judges said they were acting because the high-court review significantly raised the possibility the felony convictions might be overturned,” noted the Post’s Spencer S. Hsu. The case potentially bears...

President Joe Biden’s deputies have let 6.2 million illegal migrants into the United States, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Biden’s southern inflow is more than one migrant for every two American births since January 2021. “More of those people are also being released into the United States than previously, generally through the use of parole authority or with a notice to appear before an immigration judge,” said the report, titled “The Demographic Outlook: 2014 to 2054.”

Maria Gonzalez, 11, was found strangled to death under her bed in Pasadena, Texas. Police have named 18-year-old Juan Carlos Garcia-Rodriguez, from Guatemala, as a suspect. He reportedly crossed into the US through El Paso, Texas, in January and 'self-surrendered' to authorities before he was released.

Carlos De Oliveira, former President Trump’s newest co-defendant in the Mar-a-Lago case, was released on a $100,000 bond after an initial court appearance Monday. De Oliveira was named as a co-conspirator in the case in a Thursday superseding indictment that accused the Mar-a-Lago property manager of coordinating with Trump to attempt to delete security camera footage that showed him and another defendant in the case, Walt Nauta, moving boxes in and out of a storage room.

Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten walked out of a California prison Tuesday after serving 53 years of a life sentence for her participation in two infamous murders. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Van Houten 'was released to parole supervision.' Her release comes days after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced he would not fight a state appeals court ruling that Van Houten should be granted parole. .....

The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) tried to quietly release sexually violent predators, including a child molester, into an unsecured, rural residential neighborhood in Tenino. It’s less than half a mile from a school bus stop and will cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands per year — per sex offender — to house. The Washington Department of Corrections noted its security concerns, but they appear to have gone unaddressed. Supreme Living, LLC is a privately-run supportive housing provider for what it calls “behaviorally challenged individuals.” They purchased a location in Tenino, described by the sheriff as a...

A rape victim in California has shared a harrowing image of her facial injuries after she was assaulted by a homeless man who had been released from jail just a few hours earlier. Marissa Young, 44, of Torrance, was walking her dogs about 1 a.m. July 31 when she was attacked by Darrell Waters, 46, who was arrested days earlier ... The homeless man was released on his own recognizance about 12 hours before the brutal assault, according to the report. “I was tackled from behind, I heard nothing,” Young told KTLA. “I didn’t have headphones in, I wasn’t looking...

The man seen ransacking Walgreens and CVS stores in San Francisco was freed from prison thanks to a minimum sentence. Jean Lugo Romero pleaded guilty to felony grand theft and a misdemeanor for petty theft prior to being sentenced to 16 months and one-year probation for the robberies, the Daily Mail reported Tuesday: Under California law, Romero could have been sentenced to three years in prison on the felony rap and another 16 months on the misdemeanor charge. However, the judge credited him with time served and released Romero back onto the lawless streets of San Francisco. He was ordered...

Short video explains itself. ---- This video is a request for help in reviewing a 55,000 page data drop from Phizer (because of Judge's refusal to the delay of the release in January). This must be the analysis only, the total data would be enormous. They are requesting knowledgeable medical people to analyze and review the 150 document dump.

The sicko who smashed his own feces in a Bronx straphanger’s face joked with cops that “s–t happens” before sneering to a Bronx judge, “F–k you, bitch.” Frank Abrokwa, 37, was busted Monday at his homeless shelter in connection to the Feb. 21 attack. Upon arrest, he made light of the attack, quipping to cops, “S–t happens. Haha. This is a s–tty situation. Haha,” Bronx Assistant District Attorney Grace Phillips said during Abrokwa’s arraignment late Tuesday. Abrokwa — apparently impatient because Brooklyn detectives showed up to arrest him for an unrelated hate crime from September — also made a scene...

An Arizona man charged with the first-degree murder of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old child was released from jail after posting $50,000 bond earlier this month, according to local reports.

Michael Cohen was released from home confinement restrictions Monday morning — as he vowed to continue to hand over information about “dirty deeds,” he said outside Manhattan federal court. Former President Donald Trump’s ex-personal attorney was released from federal prison on furlough in May 2020 after serving more than a year of a three-year sentence for tax evasion, bank fraud and lying to Congress. He was placed on home confinement after being cut loose from Otisville Correctional Facility as part of an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 behind bars. Speaking to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Lower...

A hiker on the Appalachian Trail told a 911 dispatcher that he was “99.99 percent sure” that he spoke with Florida fugitive Brian Laundrie, a newly released recording reveals. “I’ll meet somebody out there if they want to,” Dennis Davis, 53, told the Haywood County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Office dispatcher. “I’m telling you, it was him.” He told the dispatcher the stranger was “talking wild” and “acting funny,” the recording shows. Davis, an engineer from Florida, told The Post this week that he was driving on Waterville Road Saturday morning when he was flagged down by a man who was...

Former Trump inaugural committee chair Tom Barrack on Friday was released from federal lockup in California on a $250 million bond ahead of his scheduled arraignment in New York on charges he acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates and obstructed justice. As part of the terms of his release, Barrack, 74, is subject to electronic monitoring and will have to foot the bill for his GPS ankle bracelet, Judge Patricia Donahue ordered, signing off on an agreement that had been worked out between the government and Barrack's attorneys. Barrack, a private equity investor and founder of the...

Over two decades have passed since Terebea Williams shot and left 23-year-old Kevin "John" Ruska Jr. for dead. Williams, now 44, was sentenced to 84 years-to-life in prison after she was convicted in 2001 of first-degree murder, use of a firearm, carjacking and kidnapping. Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged to release 8,000 inmates by Aug. 1 to protect them from a coronavirus outbreak behind bars. "Just want folks to know, advocates for urgency to know, your voices are being heard," Newsom said on June 29. "For family members with loved ones in those facilities to know your voices...

I saw this story on Fox and Friends this morning and it stunned me, I should be immune from the policies of liberals but this one got me.... A woman convicted of murder and sentenced to 84 years to Life in Prison was released from prison due to concerns over Covid-19.... The Sister of the Victim in this case said, her brother was kidnapped by the woman, shot in the stomach, driven in the trunk of his car over 700 miles and left in a motel room to bleed out and die.... The murderer is 44 years old and is...

A PEDO who calls himself Mr Rape, Torture, Kill has been released from a mental health hospital after more than two decades, despite vowing to re-offend.Officials in Orange County are warning residents around the release of “dangerous sex offender” Cary Smith, 59, an admitted pedophile, whose been incarcerated since 1999.Smith, a former Costa Mesa resident, was held under the state’s Welfare and Institutions Code after a series of civil trials.The trial's determined that he “demonstrated danger of inflicting substantial physical harm” to children, according to a press release from officials.The 59-year-old was admitted to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino back in 1999,...

As many as 8,000 California prisoners could be released ahead of schedule in an unprecedented attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19 inside state prisons, with more than half of the releases expected by the end of the month. The announcement on Friday by top advisors to Gov. Gavin Newsom offered stark evidence of the dire health conditions at several California prisons. On Monday, the top medical officer for the state prison system was removed from his position following criticism of inmate transfers that are believed to have led to a much larger coronavirus problem in prisons than existed this...

An inmate who was released from the Hillsborough County Jail in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus is back behind bars and accused of committing second-degree murder the day after he got out of jail, deputies say. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office confirms 26-year-old Joseph Edwards Williams was arrested on a warrant Monday night in Gibsonton. They say he is connected to a March 20 shooting homicide in the Progress Village area. Deputies responded at 10:40 that night to several 911 calls about gunshots fired near 81st Street South and Ash Avenue. A man was pronounced dead at...

Some inmates released from Rikers Island amid the coronavirus outbreak are being given free cellphones, cab fare and even hotel rooms as they head out the door, according to sources and a City Hall rep. “This is a disgrace to all correction officers — insane and dishonorable,’’ a city Department of Corrections source raged to The Post on Friday.