Recent Posts in Murder/Manslaughter Category
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Posted on Oct 13, 2017
Continuing our criminal defense blog's mission to keep readers informed about their rights, today we're discussing the Napue Doctrine. Like the Brady rule, the Napue rule governs how the ...
Posted on Aug 11, 2014
The only member of a gang of bank robbers that survived a shoot-out has been charged with several crimes and may also face a murder charge for using one of the hostages as a shield. J.R., 19, is ...
Posted on Aug 5, 2014
A man has pled not guilty to murder and arson regarding the death of his former girlfriend, who was five months pregnant with his child when she disappeared in Maui. S.C. was the last person to see ...
Posted on Jul 23, 2014
A man that may be battling mental illness, has pled not guilty to murder via a court-appointed attorney, in regards to the shooting death of a popular defense attorney, as reported by Kentucky.com ...
Posted on Jul 21, 2014
The temperature needed for a child to die in a car was of interest to both parents of a toddler that did later die in a hot car, and a judge must now determine if the baby died in an accident or in an ...
Posted on Jul 17, 2014
According to CNN a teen boy that spent his afternoon consuming alcohol with his father, and then overheard a telephone argument his father had with his mother, grew angry, beat his father to death ...
Posted on Jul 15, 2014
A man has been arrested and charged with murdering a woman after the two had been on a methamphetamine binge, engaged in oral sex, and he later learned that she had AIDS. The man, J.W., 32, has ...
Posted on Jul 2, 2014
A 12 year-old girl survived 19 knife wounds inflicted by two of her 12 year-old friends, the attack prompted by their desire to impress a website character called "Slenderman", and the two ...
Posted on Jul 2, 2014
A young couple, motivated by financial gains, has admitted to strangling and stabbing an elderly couple to death in their home as they slept, and the male was closely related to the victims, as ...
Posted on Jun 24, 2014
Two men, allegedly motivated by a cash sum of $8,000 a woman carried in her purse as she was on her way to purchase a car, have been arrested and charged with murder after they gave her a ride and ...
Posted on Jun 16, 2014
A former serial rapist, with some unprosecuted crimes dating back to the 1980s and 90s, has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2008 kidnapping, rape and murder of his niece, as reported by WCAX ...
Posted on Jun 5, 2014
A man has confessed to killing his stepfather with a sledgehammer, tossing his body into the family pool, hiding his crime from his mother, and then starting on the task of building a casket, as ...
Posted on May 27, 2014
In most criminal defense cases, individuals can be charged with a crime that has elevated penalties due to "intent to kill." Intent to kill crimes concern offenses where the defendant wanted ...
Posted on May 19, 2014
A 16 year-old boy has been charged as an a adult for the murder of a 16 year-old girl, in what appears to be motivated by her declining to attend the prom with him as her date, as reported by CNN and ...
Posted on May 12, 2014
As reported by Seattle PI a 20-year-old man, G.N., has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 20-year old girlfriend, A.L., and is being held in King County Jail on a $2 million ...
Posted on May 12, 2014
When S.D. stormed into the hair salon his wife worked in and shot her and seven others to death it made national news in 2011. Now, three years later, S.D. has agreed to plead guilty according to his ...
Posted on Apr 30, 2014
Famed Craigslist killer Miranda Barbour, currently headed for trial for one murder, has been claiming from her jail cell that there were several more victims of her rampage, and a couple of men ...
Posted on Apr 14, 2014
After telling authorities several stories about how her husband came to fall to his death in Glacier National Park during their honeymoon, the new bride admitted to pushing him from a cliff and will ...
Posted on Mar 17, 2014
The Des Moines Register has reported that a physician has entered a guilty plea for his role in the overdose death of one of his patients; as he had given the man, with a known "drug habit", ...
Posted on Mar 17, 2014
During a search of a an accused murderer's home, after finding the murdered child, police located child pornography, cameras, video recordings, journals and over a dozen guns. They also found a ...
Posted on Feb 11, 2014
In a horrific piece of news a mother has been arrested for the murder of her two children and the attempted murder of two of her other children, as she and another woman tried to exorcise demons that ...
Posted on Feb 3, 2014
Police charged a man with murder after allegedly killing his girlfriend's drug dealer. The Chicago Tribune reports that he did this out of anger after learning she had gone to the man to purchase ...
Posted on Sep 16, 2013
Though soaked in the victim's blood, and with two eye witnesses, the son of Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy, has entered a plea of not guilty in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, as ...
Posted on Sep 12, 2013
A mentally ill man that attacked a woman, raped her eight-year-old stepdaughter and stabbed her dog, has pleaded guilty to all charges and is now facing between 12 and 93 years behind prison bars, as ...
Posted on Sep 5, 2013
Defense attorneys are arguing that the prosecution is behaving unethically in the evidence they presented to a grand jury, which resulted in the indictment of an Irish nanny for murdering the ...
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