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Yale Law Professor Jed Rubenfeld, a prominent legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law, privacy rights, and the First Amendment, has provided a legal roadmap for Donald Trump’s attorneys to potentially overturn the former president’s ‘guilty’ verdict before the crucial 2024 election. In a recent video, Rubenfeld begins by explaining the complexities of the case. “Nobody wants it to be the rule in America that if you’re a former president or if you’re running for President, you become a target for criminal prosecution,” said Rubenfeld. Trump was found guilty of allegedly falsifying business records to conceal a second...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared his support for Donald Trump after guilty verdicts were handed down in his New York City trial on Thursday. Orbán hailed Trump as a “man of honor” and urged Americans to “make their verdict in November” at the ballot box. “I’ve known President Donald Trump to be a man of honor. As President, he always put America first, he commanded respect around the world and used this respect to build peace,” Orbán wrote on social media platform Twitter. “Let the people make their verdict this November! Keep on fighting, Mr. President!” Orbán said, echoing...

Hunter Biden faces 42 years in federal prison for nine tax and three gun charges filed by special counsel David Weiss. Per Weiss’ indictments: Weiss charged Hunter Biden on Thursday, asserting he was “engaged in a four-year scheme” to not pay at least $1.4 million in taxes “he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns.” “If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison,” the Department of Justice wrote regarding the tax indictment. “Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less...

Vice President Kamala Harris said that while the jury in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s trial may have found him guilty of murdering George Floyd, their verdict is not enough to “heal the pain that existed for generations.”“Let’s say there is a guilty verdict on the highest charge, it will not take away the pain of the Floyd family. It will not take away the pain of the communities, all communities, regardless of their color or geographic location, that felt sadness and anger in what they witnessed in that video,” Harris told CNN on Tuesday shortly before Chauvin was...

FORT CARSON, Colo. -- An Army interrogator was convicted of negligent homicide late Saturday in the death of an Iraqi general at a detention camp. A panel of six Army officers also convicted Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr., 43, of negligent dereliction of duty but acquitted him of assault after six hours of deliberations. Welshofer was accused of putting a sleeping bag over the head of Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, sitting on his chest and using his hand to cover the general's mouth while asking him questions in 2003. Welshofer, who stood silently and showed no reaction...

Men face up to life in prison for flogging a Bible study student By Claire Osborn AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, December 11, 2003 A Travis County jury on Wednesday convicted a pastor and his brother in a severe beating that sent a child to intensive care. Joshua and Caleb Thompson, 23-year-old twins, were found guilty of injury to a child and aggravated assault. Jurors, who took about 3 1/2 hours to reach their decision, can sentence the brothers to anything from probation to life in prison. The sentencing phase of the trial starts today. The brothers were silent as they listened...

Mom guilty in tot death Girl fell from window of car, was hit by another; judge laments tragedy 12/04/2002 By TIM WYATT / The Dallas Morning News A West Dallas woman faces up to two years in jail after a judge convicted her Tuesday of being reckless in the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was run over after falling unnoticed out of a car window two years ago. After hearing almost six hours of testimony, visiting Judge Gary Stephens found Norma Leticia Suarez guilty of recklessly endangering Amanda Estrada in the Sept. 23, 2000, incident on the Continental...