Judge rejects plea deal in 2019 killing of Miami-Dade teacher
Judge Alberto Milian turned down the proposed sentence after Kameela Russell's mother said she wanted the case to go to trial.
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Judge Alberto Milian turned down the proposed sentence after Kameela Russell's mother said she wanted the case to go to trial.
The victim's family has hired an attorney and is weighing legal action against the school district, which says staff tried to defuse tensions beforehand.
Prosecutors say the drug exposed what was already in Tamarius Davis' heart; the defense says he had a psychotic episode, and the judge is set to sentence him Thursday.
Tamarius Davis, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in May, testified on the second day of his sentencing hearing, where Wakefield's family is asking for a life sentence.
Tamarius Davis, who pleaded guilty in May to second-degree murder, heard Dustin Wakefield's parents and relatives speak at a sentencing hearing Monday.
Judge Michael Usan imposed the sentence a month after a jury convicted Shannon Ryan, though Leila Cavett's body has never been found.
Town officials say Geoffrey Jacobs forfeited his seat by buying a Fort Pierce home, while the mayor says he still sleeps and keeps his clothes at a mobile home in town.
A local judge has found three men guilty of murdering two Australian brothers and their American friend in Baja California, Mexico, in April 2024.
The defendant's mother and older brother described a happy childhood and a 1996 car crash, and the defense argues the injury shaped his later behavior.
A doctor took the stand testifying Alberto Sierra's medical complications as argument for him to not be sentenced to death.
Relatives of Gladys Machado and her two young daughters delivered victim impact statements Tuesday, and the defense is scheduled to begin its case Wednesday.
Detective Juan Chaidez testified that Alberto Sierra confessed days after the 2012 killings of his estranged wife and her two young daughters, after being confronted with DNA evidence.
Dr. Emma Lew, a former Miami-Dade medical examiner who performed all three autopsies, gave graphic testimony Friday as the first week of the trial ended.
Former U.S. Rep. David Rivera was convicted on federal charges stemming from a secret lobbying campaign tied to the Venezuelan government.
Jomarlie Moïse, 29, took the stand on the third day of the federal trial of Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a pastor accused of helping orchestrate the 2021 plot.
Martine Moïse testified that her husband told her they were dead moments before gunmen killed him.
Dozens of people arrested in connection with the killing in the troubled Caribbean nation are still awaiting trial in Miami.
The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three other alleged 9/11 plotters is scheduled to begin in June 2028.
A Florida man convicted in one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the "Hog Trail Murders" in the 1990s became the state's 15th person executed this year.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of developing and directing the plot to crash hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
A jury of six men and 10 women was selected to hear the case against an ex-gang leader accused of orchestrating Tupac Shakur's killing nearly 30 years ago.
Days after Christian Obumseli was stabbed to death, Courtney Clenney was arrested in Hawaii and charged with second-degree murder.
A June 1 trial date was set Wednesday for Nicolás Maduro and his wife to face drug trafficking charges.
Prosecutors upgraded the case against Gregory Dasilva after a Broward grand jury linked a third death to a June 30 double homicide in Lauderhill.
Gregory Martin, 56, was sentenced for the brutal attack that occurred in July 2009.
