According to multiple sources, Taft became fixated on Angela Gayle Meador, a Nashville-based recording artist, after discovering Meador’s tribute song to Johnny Depp during the widely publicized Depp v. Heard trial.

In filings announced by the Stand With Karmelo Coalition, Anthony’s appellate attorneys submitted a verified motion seeking to recuse Judge John Roach from all remaining post-trial matters. They also filed a motion for a new trial that raises constitutional and legal questions they contend should be considered by a different judge.

A viral toy marketed as a stress-relief doll has drawn condemnation from Black advocates, mental health professionals, and historians after videos circulating on Chinese social media showed users stomping, stretching, slapping, and even boiling a Black baby doll for entertainment.

That is one of the clearest harms of cash bail. A person can be presumed innocent and still have their life disrupted immediately. A bond amount can decide whether someone waits for court at home or in a jail cell. That decision can affect employment, parenting, family stability, and the ability to participate in one’s own defense.

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Excessive bail keeps many behind bars, against the Constitution, and they are presumed innocent on paper, but in practice, they are being held for weeks, months, and sometimes years as they wait for trial. This is the story of Francis, blind, jailed, and with little hope.

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To understand the weight Robert was carrying at 16, you have to go back further. His early years were soaked in addiction, violence, and instability. By nine,

As this system expanded, the nation’s jails and prisons became disproportionately filled with Black men, signaling the beginning of a new era that would come to be known as “mass incarceration.”

Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump joined the family of Jada West, the 12-year-old who died days after a fight that erupted at a school bus stop, at a news conference this week.

“Four rounds or fragments hit parts of the property owned by Rihanna,” Los Angeles police reported after responding to the shooting at the Beverly Crest home the singer shares with hip hop artist A$AP Rocky.