US Attorney Emily Limehouse doesn’t appear to be pulling any punches in a sentencing memorandum filed ahead of the August 1 hearing where disgraced banker Russell Laffitte will learn his sentence. Laffitte is expected to spend anywhere from 9 to 11.4 years in...
What Happened to Grant Solomon? Family Wants Answers In So-Called Dragging Death
Ray Whitley, the district attorney in Tennessee’s 18th Judicial District, says there’s nothing criminal about the July 20, 2020, death of 18-year-old Grant Solomon. “There has been a very thorough investigation done on this, and there’s just nothing there,” he said in...
Justice for Tiffany: Supporters Say Domestic Violence Victim Should Be Freed from Prison
Advocates for a Greenwood, SC, mother of five are pushing the South Carolina Department of Corrections to grant her parole or a full pardon in the 2017 stabbing death of her boyfriend. Tiffany Janae Carroll, now 36, pleaded “guilty but mentally ill” to voluntary...
The Plaintiff in a Federal Libel Suit Demands $11,000 From Podcaster Karen Yax
A mother in Mississippi is asking for $11,000 from a podcaster and blogger she sued in federal court over allegedly slanderous statements regarding the death of her son. Rae Andreacchio, a Mississippi mental health services provider, sued Karen Yax, the Michigan-based...
Hall Denies Parker’s Severance Motion; Beach Trial Will Go On
Judge Daniel Hall has declined a two-part motion that would sever Parker’s Kitchen from the Murdaugh defendants and change the venue in the wrongful death suit filed by Renee Beach after her daughter died in a 2019 boat crash. Mike DeWitt of editor of the...
Alex Murdaugh Asks – Again – to Use 401(k) For Legal Fees
Judge Daniel Hall has denied Alex Murdaugh's latest attempt to use his remaining 401(k) money to fund the appeal for his double homicide conviction because that money is expected to go to the alleged victims in a civil case against him. Murdaugh — who is a defendant...