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Rakim Mayers, aka A$AP Rocky, faces up to 24 years in prison if convicted on two felony assault charges in the 2021 incident near a Hollywood hotel. In opening statements on Friday, prosecutors described the rapper as the aggressor and claimed he orchestrated a plan to shoot his childhood friend following a disagreement.The Grammy-nominated hip-hop star, who is also a fashion mogul and the longtime partner of singer Rihanna, has pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations.

A Tennessee man is facing life in prison if convicted in the death of his girlfriend. Jason Chen is charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the 2022 death of 22-year-old Jasmine Pace. Prosecutors allege Chen murdered Pace before leaving her remains in a suitcase.Due to the publicity of the case, a jury was brought in from Nashville.Pace’s family reported her missing in Nov. 2022. According to an affidavit, Pace’s parents broke into Chen’s apartment after tracking her location on Nov. 23. Her parents told police they found Pace’s identification and credit cards, but ...

Daniel Eric Markel was a Canadian-born attorney and a law professor, who wrote various works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing, with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. Markel was killed in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2014, in a murder for hire motivated by child custody issues following Markel's divorce from Wendi Adelson, a clinical law professor and child advocate also employed at Florida State University at the time.Four individuals were tried for the alleged murder-for-hire plot:Charlie Adelson, Wendi Adelson's brother and Markel's former ...

Carly Gregg, 15, is charged as an adult in the March 19 shooting that killed her mother, Ashley Smylie. Gregg is also accused of shooting her stepfather, Heath Smylie, who survived with a graze wound to his shoulder.

FULL TRIAL AUDIOIn July 2021, Dane County Sheriff's detectives Sabrina Sims and Brian Shunk were assigned to investigate the disappearance of Windsor, Wisconsin, couple Bart and Krista Halderson. Their 23-year-old son Chandler Halderson had reported them missing, telling police they went to the family cabin for the Fourth of July holiday weekend but never returned.Chandler Halderson was charged with the murder of his parents, Bart and Krista. He was also charged with dismembering them and lying to police. He pleaded not guilty. This is the audio from his trial in January 2022.

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to state charges in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.Mangione’s initial appearance in New York’s state trial court was preempted by federal prosecutors bringing their own charges over the shooting. The federal charges could carry the possibility of the death penalty, while the maximum sentence for the state charges is life in prison without parole. Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state charges expected to go to trial first.

A trial is underway in western Wisconsin for Nicolae Miu, a 54-year-old man accused of stabbing four people and killing a teenager in July of 2022 on the Apple River.Miu is charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the death of 17-year-old Isaac Schuman and four counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. He pleaded not guilty in September of 2022.The prosecution is arguing that Miu was an aggressor in the incident, and plans to call more than 40 witnesses to the stand. The defense is contending that Miu stabbed the five people in self-defense because the teenagers ...

FULL TRIAL AUDIOIn June 2015, Dee Dee Blanchard was found brutally murdered in her home in Springfield, Missouri. She had been stabbed to death. The investigation into her death revealed a shocking and disturbing truth - Dee Dee had been keeping her daughter, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, captive and pretending she was sick for years.Gypsy Rose had been forced to use a wheelchair and undergo unnecessary medical treatments for conditions she didn't actually have. It was a case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a form of child abuse where a caregiver fabricates or induces illness in a child to gain ...

Leilani Simon is accused of killing her 20-month-old son, Quinton, in October 2022. She allegedly beat him to death and threw away his body in a dumpster. Police later found his body in a landfill.This is the full audio from her murder trial.

A Florida jury will determine whether a 60-year-old white woman was justified when she fired through the door of her central Florida apartment a year ago, killing a Black mother during an ongoing dispute over neighborhood children. Lorincz told investigators that the children were running and yelling outside her apartment. She went outside, saw some skates on the ground and threw them at the children. She went back inside her apartment, defense attorney Morris Carranza told jurors. Owens, who was the mother of several of the children and who lived across the street, went to Lorincz’s ...

On Sept. 27, 2020, a man in the 11300 block of White Rock Terrace in Lakewood Ranch dialed 911 after his neighbor, Ashley Benefield, ran to his house shouting for help. Benefield, then 28, said her husband attacked her and she shot him in self-defense, the Bradenton Herald previously reported.Deputies with the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office said they found Doug Benefield with gunshot wounds in his right leg, right arm and right chest area. He died at a local hospital later that night.Detectives said at the time they found “no evidence that” Ashley Benefield “was acting in self-defense...

Rapper Young Dolph, real name was Adolph Thornton Jr., was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee back in November 2021. Several suspects have been charged in connection with his death. One of them, Justin Johnson, aka Straight Drop, faces trial for the murder of the rapper. If convicted, Johnson could face life in prison without the possibility of parole.This is the full audio from his trial starting in September 2024, with large portions of silence removed to improve your listening experience.

Prosecutors have accused Kouri Richins of drugging her husband's Valentine's Day sandwich in February 2022 in an alleged murder attempt that he survived. He died 17 days later, after prosecutors said Kouri Richins spiked his cocktail with a fatal dose of fentanyl. Kouri Richins pleaded not guilty Tuesday.Richins wrote a children's book about loss after Eric Richins died in 2022 and has proclaimed her innocence since she was charged with murder. This is the full audio from her trial starting in August 2024, with large portions of silence removed.

The high-profile case of a man accused of the death of a 5-year-old boy is set to begin trial. Daniel Garcia is accused of physically beating to death Domenic Aguilar-Acevedo back in July 2021.Garcia at the time was dating the boy’s mother, Nickolle Aguilar, who was also charged in this case. Garcia was first charged with murder but prosecutors are taking him to trial on the charge of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.That charge is still a first-degree felony and the punishment range is the same, but the jury could consider the possibility of probation. For murder, probation ...

Christopher Gregor is accused of forcing his six-year-old son to run on a treadmill because he believed the young boy was “too fat.” The son, Corey Micciolo, later died of the injuries he sustained from the alleged abuse. Gregor faces several charges at trial including endangering the welfare of a child and first-degree murder.This is the full audio from that trial, with long portions of silence removed.

Tyler Dazey, the Dubuque man who is accused of killing his mother, Jennifer Dazey and the family dog, is refusing to participate in his murder trial. Police said when they first arrested Dazey, he claimed he killed his mother because she was practicing witchcraft. Dazey faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole. This is the full audio from his trial in July 2024, with large portions of silence removed.

Alex Baldwin is scheduled to go on trial in July for involuntary manslaughter. Nearly three years ago, during a rehearsal for a scene in the movie Rust on a ranch outside Santa Fe, Baldwin was holding the prop gun that had been loaded with live ammunition. The Colt .45 revolver went off, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin, who was also a producer for the film, pleaded not guilty, and has maintained he was not responsible for Hutchins' death. Shortly after the shooting, he told ABC News he had "no idea" how a live bullet got onto the set of his ...