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Crime and Justice News
Jan 62 min read
More News Organizations Allow Readers To Delete Old Crime Stories
Civil rights advocates have long fought to free people from their criminal records , with campaigns to expunge old cases and keep...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 28, 20241 min read
CO Man Attacked Reporter, Saying, 'This Is Trump's America Now'
A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Ozy Media Co-Founder Sentenced 10 Years in Financial Conspiracy Case
Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced on Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 16, 20241 min read
ABC, Stephanopoulos To Pay Trump $15M For False Statement On Rape
ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos agreed to pay $15 million to a foundation and museum to be established by Donald Trump as part...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 27, 20241 min read
States Expand Restrictions On Media Access To Executions
Many states now significantly restrict whether and how members of the press may observe and document the execution process, a survey by...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 4, 20243 min read
How True Crime Entertainment May Have Real-Life Impact
In 1989, Americans were riveted by the shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children....
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 28, 20242 min read
Can True Crime Media Coverage Influence Case Outcomes?
The case of the Menendez brothers shows how popular true crime content that reinvestigates elements of real criminal cases in...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 23, 20242 min read
Judicial Panel Recommends Keeping Ban On Broadcasting Federal Criminal Proceedings
A U.S. judicial panel tasked with re-examining whether to keep in place the ban against TV or audio broadcasts of federal criminal...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 19, 20242 min read
NY Times, ProPublica Say Grisham Book Needs Better Attribution
Author John Grisham has written a nonfiction collection about wrongful convictions, but the New York Times and ProPublica say Grisham...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 17, 20241 min read
Ex-Las Vegas Official Gets 28-Year Term For Killing Reporter
A former Las Vegas official was sentenced to serve at least 28 years in prison for killing an investigative journalist who wrote...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 17, 20242 min read
Texas Citizen Journalist Wins New Chance To Challenge Conviction
The Supreme Court told a federal appeals court to take a new look at whether a citizen journalist in Texas can sue officials over her...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 7, 20241 min read
DOJ, PERF Issue Best Practices On Police-Press Dealings At Protests
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) released a first-of-its kind set of best practices for...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 7, 20242 min read
David Burnham Dies; 'Serpico' Reporter, Head Of Data Group TRAC
David Burnham, a former investigative reporter for The New York Times whose exposé of corruption in the New York Police Department in...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 26, 20242 min read
Conservative Media Bury Or Ignore FBI Release On Crime Report Fall
This week's release of FBI data showing that crime reports in the U.S. dropped last year came just weeks before a high-stakes...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 2, 20242 min read
Famed AP Court Reporter Linda Deutsch Dies At 80
Linda Deutsch, who for nearly 50 years covered some of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials — Charles Manson, O.J....
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 29, 20242 min read
Former Official Convicted of Murder in Stabbing of Las Vegas Reporter
A former Nevada county official was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German nearly...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 12, 20242 min read
Jury Selection Begins For Former Las Vegas Politican Accused Of Murdering Reporter
The trial of a Las Vegas-area politician accused of killing an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him will take center...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 2, 20242 min read
How Wall Street Journal Worked To Free Its Arrested Reporter
For several months, a counter on top of a Wall Street Journal website tracked the days, hours and minutes that Evan Gershkovich had spent...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 29, 20242 min read
MN Judge Blocks Reporting On Memo In High-Profile Murder Case
A judge in St. Paul, Minnesota, has ordered journalists not to report on a sentencing memo that was filed in a high-profile murder case...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 23, 20242 min read
L.A. County Sheriff Wanted To Prosecute Reporter Over Leaks
For at least three years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department secretly investigated — and ultimately urged the state attorney...
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