Federal attorneys don’t think former Portage Mayor James Snyder deserves to have his conviction on a public corruption charge involving garbage truck contracts reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court but Snyder disagrees. That’s according to recent filings in Snyder’s bid to have the nation’s highest court go over his case, which has dragged on for several years after two federal trials and two .
A Davenport man whose Rock Island County murder charge was dismissed after witnesses failed to cooperate with prosecutors was arrested by Davenport Police early Thursday for allegedly trafficking in fentanyl.
Justice for 25-year-old homicide victim Davion Roe will have to wait until witnesses decide to cooperate with authorities, Rock Island County State s Attorney Dora Villarreal said.
The saga of the federal court case against disgraced former Portage Mayor James Snyder inched closer to a conclusion when a judge on Friday ordered him to report to the federal Bureau of Prisons on Oct. 16 to begin serving his 21-month sentence on convictions for bribery and defrauding the IRS. His sentence also includes one year on supervised release. His sentences on each conviction are to .
Baltimore defense lawyer Kenneth W. Ravenell will not be able to avoid serving time in prison while he appeals his money laundering conviction, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. In a brief order, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Ravenell’s request to delay his sentence of nearly five years in federal prison or .