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Adnan Syed, who was released from a Maryland prison this year after his case was the focus of the true-crime podcast “Serial,” has been hired by Georgetown University as a program associate for the university’s Prisons and Justice Initiative. The university says Syed started working this month for the initiative. In his new role, Syed will support Georgetown’s “Making an Exoneree” class. The university wrote in an online announcement that students in the class reinvestigate decades-old wrongful convictions, create short documentaries about the cases and work to help bring innocent people home from prison.
Authorities say an Ohio man facing charges in two homicide cases, including the drug-related death of his infant son, was involved in another slaying after he was mistakenly released from jail. David A. Johnson III was released from the Franklin County Jail on Nov. 29 after a county courts staffer accidentally made an error while filing a form. Johnson’s attorney arranged for him to turn himself in after the mistake was discovered, but the 20-year-old Columbus man did not do so. Authorities said Johnson and two other people were involved in an attempted robbery at a gas station on Dec. 13 that ended with the shooting death of a 21-year-old man. Johnson was arrested Monday night.
During his first interview after being released from prison, tennis great Boris Becker recalled the moment the door of his single-occupancy cell at Britain’s notorious Wandsworth prison closed. Becker calls is the “loneliest moment I've ever had in life." The interview with German broadcaster SAT.1 aired Tuesday. The three-time Wimbledon champion had been sentenced to 30 months in prison in April for illicitly transferring large amounts of money and hiding assets after he was declared bankrupt. He would normally have had to serve half of his sentence before being eligible for release, but he was released early under a fast-track deportation program for foreign nationals.
A former Texas police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019 has been sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in prison. The same jury that convicted 38-year-old Aaron Dean returned the sentence on Tuesday. It was a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone who was also armed with a gun. Dean faced up to 20 years in prison. The white Fort Worth officer shot the 28-year-old Black woman while responding to a call about an open front door.
Ex-Texas police officer gets nearly 12 years in prison after being convicted in fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson.
FILE - Former tennis player Boris Becker arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London, Friday, April 29, 2022. Fresh out of prison for bankruptcy offenses, tennis great Boris Becker is heading for the limelight again. German broadcaster SAT.1 was due Tuesday to air the first interview with Becker since his release, quoting the 55-year-old saying his jail time had taught him “a hard lesson, a very expensive one, a very painful one.” (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
Sam Bankman-Fried may be ready to come to the U.S. to face criminal charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX following a chaotic court appearance in the Bahamas. A lawyer for Bankman-Fried was quoted as saying Monday that the disgraced FTX founder has agreed to be extradited to the United States. A court hearing was stopped earlier in the day when his attorneys said it was premature for him to stand before the court. Jerone Roberts, a local defense attorney for Bankman-Fried, told The New York Times that lawyers will prepare the necessary documents for extradition. It was not immediately clear when extradition could occur.
r·凯利的经理已经被判刑to a year in federal prison for calling in a shooting threat that halted a screening of a damning documentary about the R&B star. Donnell Russell worked with Kelly as the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling singer was starting to face what would become a tide of accusations, and eventually a sex trafficking conviction. Prosecutors say Russell repeatedly sought to suppress the claims. A jury convicted him in the theater threat case, and he later pleaded guilty to interstate stalking involving one of Kelly's accusers. Russell told a Manhattan federal judge Monday that he had “made bad judgments” after starting to work with Kelly.
Former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme has died in federal custody at the age of 89. Bureau of Prisons online records show Salemme died on Tuesday and WPRI-TV first reported the death Sunday. The onetime head of the New England family of La Cosa Nostra was serving a life sentence for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner. Salemme was convicted in 2018 in a case that served as a flashback to the days when the Mafia was a force to be reckoned with in New England. Salemme admitted to a slew of other killings, but insisted he had nothing to do with nightclub owner Steven DiSarro’s killing.
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