Editor’s note: This report has been updated to indicate former President Trump is facing both federal and state charges. Joe Tacopina, one of former President Trump’s New York trial lawyers, offered an unfavorable prediction for his former client’s ongoing legal battles and contended it is “absolutely possible” Trump will be convicted in one of his…
Special counsel Jack Smith, the prosecutor overseeing former President Trump’s federal criminal cases, was “swatted” on Christmas Day, according to multiple media reports. Police in Montgomery County, Md., were told that Smith had shot his wife, causing a police response, NBC News first reported. The responding officers were called off after U.S. marshals protecting Smith…
One of the five former Memphis, Tenn., police officers charged in the death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols has accepted a plea deal for both his state and federal criminal cases. Federal prosecutors charged Desmond Mills and four other officers in September with excessive force, deliberate indifference, conspiracy to witness tamper and obstruction of justice. Mills…