New York Judge Refuses to Delay Trump’s Hush-Money Trial

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is facing state criminal charges in New York and federal criminal charges in Florida. What happens is he is convicted? There are several important questions to ask. First, can Trump run for president if convicted? The answer is yes....

A federal grand jury has charged former President Donald Trump with seven criminal counts. Here is a closer look at those charges: 1) Unauthorized Retention of National Security Documents - it is a crime to retain national security documents without authorization, and...

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, for his conviction on seditious conspiracy charges. To date, this was the longest sentence imposed out of the 1000+ people charged in the Capitol attack that was intended to...

Prosecutors in New Mexico dismissed charges filed against actor Alec Baldwin, for the accidental shooting of a movie cinematographer in 2021. Mr. Baldwin was facing reckless homicide charges, a felony offense carrying a 1 to 5 year prison term in New Mexico. Special...

Former President Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. So what is an indictment? Am indictment is just a fancy word for a document that contains criminal charges. The sole purpose of an indictment is to notify the accused of the charges. In simple terms,...

On January 6, 2023, Virginia police say that a 6 year-old first grade student brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. The student's mother had legally purchased the gun and it was kept in the family home. The student obtained the gun and then brought it to...

A Washington State University criminal justice graduate student has been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. Bryan Kohberger, was arrested in Pennsylvania and now faces extradition back to Idaho to...

On December 21, 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried appeared in a Bahamian court and waived his right to contest an extradition request by U.S. prosecutors, to return him to New York to face a federal indictment accusing him of fraud, relating to the collapse of the FTX...

American crypto currency entrepreneur, Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas on a federal indictment filed against him in the United States. So what happens next for Mr. Bankman-Fried? He will now face extradition. Extradition is the formal process of one...

On November 18, 2022, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith, a long time federal prosecutor, as special counsel to lead two criminal investigations involving former President Donald Trump. Mr. Garland made that announcement after Donald Trump...