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Luigi Mangione's push to livestream his murder trial isn't about transparency, it's a stunt designed to pressure jurors, a former federal prosecutor is arguing. Lawyers for the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin argued in a Friday filing that the media access rules for his state trial are unconstitutional, and said the proceedings should be livestreamed. Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Mangione's attorney, said that her team wasn't consulted on media access for the upcoming September trial, and only became aware of a document titled "Media Access: PSNY v. Mangione" from an independent journalist on X. Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West...

Donald Trump would likely be sent to New York City's largest jail, Rikers Island, if he is jailed for breaching another gag order, according to a legal expert.But Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor at West Coast Trial Lawyers, exclusively told Daily Express US that Trump being sent to jail would likely cause “mass protests and civil unrest.”

Judge Tony Graf on Friday rejected a request from Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin to ban cameras in the courtroom during the duration of the trial. The judge also pushed Kirk’s assassin Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing to July 6. Judge Tony Graf Jr. pushed accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing into July and rejected a bid to ban cameras from the courtroom, marking significant pretrial developments in the high-profile case. Graf moved the preliminary hearing to July 6 through July 10, and denied Robinson’s motion to ban cameras and electronic media from the courtroom, allowing continued media coverage as...

Federal Judge in Los Angeles Dismisses Terrorism Fund-Raising Case Against Seven Iranians The Associated PressPublished: Jun 22, 2002 LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal judge dismissed charges Friday against seven Iranians accused of using a charity scam to solicit $1 million for a terrorist group. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Takasugi said that unconstitutional measures were used to put the case together. In throwing out the 59-count indictment, Takasugi wrote that the government's system for designating a group as a terrorist organization violated the defendants' rights to due process. The designation thus cannot be used in the criminal prosecution, the...