Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 | Back issues

Criminal

Judge denies acquittal for ex-Google engineer convicted of stealing trade secrets

Margaret Attridge / June 29, 2026

The judge said he would issue a separate ruling addressing the defense’s motion for acquittal on economic espionage counts.

Chinese dissident Miles Guo sentenced to 30 years

Nina Pullano / June 29, 2026

Shortly after Guo's March 2023 arrest, his penthouse apartment spontaneously caught on fire while investigators were still inside.

Suspected ‘ringleader’ of planned White House UFC attack will stay in jail

Andrew J. Nelson / June 29, 2026

Authorities say Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez was the leader of a plot to attack a UFC event on the White House lawn earlier this month with drones and snipers.

More ex-NBA players indicted in sprawling gambling dustup

Nina Pullano / June 29, 2026

Federal prosecutors accuse two former Milwaukee Bucks players of scheming to profit off bets placed on rigged games.

California father pleads guilty to dosing children with psychedelic mushrooms, federal prosecutors say

Quinn Welsch / June 26, 2026

An attorney for Randal Vance said that the doses were exaggerated and that his client only provided very small amounts of psilocybin to his two young sons.

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction affirmed on appeal, sentence vacated

Edvard Pettersson / June 26, 2026

A California appellate court sent the case back to a trial judge to reevaluate the the Miramax Films co-founder's 16-year prison sentence.

Convicted crypto bros seek relief in the 11th Circuit

Alex Pickett / June 26, 2026

The convictions centered on how the federal government defines securities in the opaque world of cryptocurrencies.

Defendant missed hearing due to suicide attempt

Brief / June 26, 2026

TEXARKANA, Texas — An appeals court in Texas upheld a criminal defendant’s conviction for aggravated sexual assault of a child, finding the trial court did not abuse its discretion in proceeding with the trial even though defendant could not be there for the first day because he was in the hospital after attempting suicide. There was sufficient evidence to support the trial court’s finding that he waived his Sixth Amendment right to be present at trial by voluntarily absenting himself from the proceedings.