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Holdout juror in Clancy trial didn't have 'any doubts' that she was responsible for killing her kids
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Holdout juror in Clancy trial didn't have 'any doubts' that she was responsible for killing her kids

  • By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

The lone juror who wanted to convict Lindsay Clancy of murder for killing her three children said he was certain of her guilt, but that other jurors wouldn’t listen to him. That's according to a statement released Friday by juror Michael Desronvil in his first public comments on the case. Eleven of 12 jurors were ready to clear Clancy of criminal responsibility, with the majority feeling the Massachusetts mom was in the grip of a rare condition called postpartum psychosis when she strangled her kids. But juror Desronvil sided with the prosecutors, who had argued that Clancy knew what she was doing. Desronvil says “I didn’t have any doubts.”

Afghan man sentenced to 20-year prison term in case tied to suicide bombing at Kabul airport
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Afghan man sentenced to 20-year prison term in case tied to suicide bombing at Kabul airport

  • By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

An Islamic State group members has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization that took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 Afghans at a Kabul airport five years ago. A federal jury in Virginia had convicted Mohammad Sharifullah in April of providing material support to an IS affiliate. U.S. troops were conducting an evacuation operation at the airport when a lone suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device near an entry point known as Abbey Gate. Prosecutors say Sharifullah’s role was scouting a route to the airport.

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Federal corruption trial opens for DC Council member Trayon White

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A bribery trial starts this week for a Washington, D.C., Council member accused of accepting cash from an associate in exchange for using his elected position to help extend city contracts for the associate’s businesses. A jury was scheduled to hear attorneys’ opening statements on Tuesday for Trayon White’s trial on one count of bribery. White has pleaded not guilty to the charge and denies breaking the law. White was arrested in 2024 on a charge that he accepted over $150,000 in bribes in exchange for pressuring D.C. employees to extend city contracts for violence intervention services.

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US judge eyes January trial date for Libyan man charged in 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

  • By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

A trial for a former Libyan intelligence official charged in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland is on track to start in January after a delay caused by the discovery of new evidence. A judge presiding over the case against Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi is eyeing Jan. 19 for the start of jury selection in Washington. Al-Marimi’s trial had been scheduled to start last month. Flight 103 was 31,000 feet over Lockerbie, Scotland, when a bomb in the plane’s cargo area exploded shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport, killing 270 people on the plane and on the ground.