Historically, trial juries were twelve people. Is this number constitutionally required? The Supreme Court said no 54 years ago in Williams v. Florida. The decision was 7-1, with Justice Marshall dissenting alone on this point. However, the Supreme Court’s views on such matters have changed, and four years ago the high court dumped a precedent…
Leniency to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent far too often. CWB Chicago reports yet another example. Zebedee Thomas has been charged in Cook County with rape and other crimes committed last August. A DNA match confirms identity. Thomas previously pleaded guilty to a sexual assault on a 7-year-old committed while a juvenile. In…
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An Alabama criminal convicted of the brutal 2004 murder and robbery of an elderly couple is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on May 30. Ivana Hrynkiw of Huntsville Real-Time News reports that last week Chief U.S. District Judge Emily Marks rejected Jamie Ray Mills’ petition for a stay of execution noting that: “The…
On June 4, 2010, Kyron Richard Horman disappeared from Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, following his participation at a science fair. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), state and local police, and the FBI carried out a thorough search and opened a cri*minal investigation, but they were unable to find any meaningful information on…
37-year-old Wanda Lemons was last seen in Chillicothe, Ohio on November 3, 2014. She vanished after reportedly going to Texas with a male truck driver, according to a friend. Background Wanda Jean Lemons was born on March 10, 1977 and is the mother of five children. She sometimes went by her previous married name, Hodges,…
The last time anyone saw Keeslyn Roberts, she wasn’t acting like her normal, cheerful self. When the 20-year-old stopped by the Flying J truck stop in Resaca, Georgia on the evening of Saturday, January 18, 2020, she walked into the kitchen area, which was for employees only. When one of the workers confronted her and…
Authorities in Milwaukee said they have found more body parts of a 19-year-old woman who is believed to have been ki*lled and dismembered on a first date earlier this month. In a news release Thursday, the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office said a person walking on a remote beach along Lake Michigan came across a torso…
After 13 years, police say a missing woman has been found alive. On October 20, 2010, 14-year-old Jessica Delgadillo was reported missing by her family. The Amarillo Police Department responded and discovered she had not returned home from school. After the department established the Cold Case Unit in 2023, investigators began looking into three cases…
23-year-old Darian Hudson was last seen in Stillwater, Oklahoma on October 22, 2017. Her family was alerted to her disappearance after she failed to show up to work the day after she shared plans of moving back home to be closer to her family in Wichita, Kansas. Background Darian Michelle Hudson was born on April…