The democratic issues in Bill Cosby’s release
On Thursday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned the April 2018 conviction of actor and entertainer Bill Cosby, ordering his immediate release from prison. Cosby, who is 83, had served three years of a 10-year sentence on three aggravated felony counts of indecent assault against Andrea Constand. Constand, a former employee at Temple University, alleged Cosby had drugged and sexually assaulted her at his home in 2004.
Bill Cosby, center, and spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, right, approach members of the media gathered outside Cosby’s home in Elkins Park, Pa., Wednesday, June 30, 2021 [Credit: AP Photo/Matt Rourke]
FORT MYERS Southwest Florida resident Jim Hale, a onetime U.S. Supreme Court law clerk and former Target and General Mills Corp. executive, has been named chair of the WGCU Public Media Advisory Board.
Hale, who joined the board of the Southwest Florida PBS and NPR programming entity in 2013, will serve a two-year term as chair, according to a statement. He’s the board’s immediate past vice chair and follows outgoing chair Judy Bricker, the release adds.
Hale, who moved to the region with his wife, Shannon, in 2007, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota Law School. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1965-66, the release states, where he “spent a significant amount of this time helping to draft the Miranda opinion.”
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Lawyer is charged with laundering cash for undercover agent
Prominent Dallas lawyer Rayshun “Ray” Jackson of the Jackson Law Firm has been charged with laundering money acquired from an undercover agent who said the money came from drug trafficking. Jackson allegedly suggested setting up a shell corporation and a cash business like a coin laundry or car wash that would make it difficult to track proceeds, prosecutors alleged. He allegedly negotiated a 4% fee, plus a bonus. Jackson, a criminal defense lawyer, was an assistant secretary on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board. (The Dallas Morning News, U.S. Department of Justice press release)