St. Louis Circuit Judge David Mason asked the lead detective in the case against Lamar Johnson for the 1994 killing of Marcus Boyd if there was "a little bit of a rush to make a conviction" in the murder.
Judge Robin Chittum dismissed the 2021 kidnapping case against Anderson Aldrich despite previously raising concerns that he was planning a mass casualty event.
Lamar Johnson and the St. Louis prosecutor agree he was wrongfully convicted of a murder in 1994. But the state is holding hearings to try to keep him incarcerated.
Ex-cop Aaron Dean had also been charged with murder, but was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson, who was shot through a window inside her own home.
WNBA star Brittney Griner was on her way back to the United States after a long-expected deal for the freedom of Russian arms dealer Viktor "Merchant of Death" Bout.
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was convicted of 12 felony counts related to the fraud at the company, Theranos, that Elizabeth Holmes founded, and received a longer sentence than Holmes.
The Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Wednesday that the Boston mobster and FBI informant's murder in prison was the result of multiple layers of management failures, widespread incompetence and flawed policies
James Howard Jackson, one of five people charged in the shooting of Lady Gaga's dog walker Ryan Fischer and stealing of two of her French bulldogs, is the third to accept a plea agreement.
