#she became a prosecutor at 13 years old

[madscientistenthusiast]

Franziska Von Karma and Azula would get along great I fear, shout out to angry violent prodigy teenage girls who's mothers abandon them and fathers pitted them against their older brothers

[beardedmrbean]

An 85-year-old Idaho woman shot and killed an intruder in her home in what a county prosecutor called "one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation I have ever heard of."

Bingham County Prosecutor Ryan Jolley said in a case review that the woman, identified Wednesday as Christine Jenneiahn, acted in self-defense and ruled it was a case of justifiable homicide.

"That Christine survived this encounter is truly incredible," Jolley wrote. "Her grit, determination, and will to live appear to be what saved her that night."

According to the review, posted on Facebook by the Bingham County Sheriff's Office, an intruder, identified as Derek Condon, broke into Jenneiahn's home at around 2 a.m. on March 13. Jenneiahn told prosecutors she was asleep in her Bingham County home when she was awakened by an intruder who was wearing a military jacket and black ski mask and was pointing a gun and a flashlight at her.

She said her disabled son was also home.

The review says Condon most likely hit Jenneiahn in her head while she was in bed, because Jenneiahn said she'd been hit and because investigators found blood on her pillow and on her bedroom floor.

Condon then handcuffed Jenneiahn and took her to the living room at gunpoint, according to the review. There, he handcuffed her to a wooden chair and asked about her valuables. When she said she didn't have much, he put his gun to her head, the review said.

According to the review, Jenneiahn told Condon she had two safes downstairs. He left her handcuffed in the living room as he looked through several rooms of her home in search of her valuables, prosecutors said.

"At some point," the review says, "he discovered that Christine's son was also in the home and became angry at Christine for not telling him."

Condon started to make numerous threats that he wanted to kill Jenneiahn, according to the review.

While Condon was searching downstairs, she dragged the wooden chair to which she was handcuffed into her bedroom and grabbed her .357 Magnum revolver from under her pillow, the review says. Back in the living room, Jenneiahn hid the gun between the armrest and a cushion as she "waited to see what Condon did next." "Christine's memory of exactly what occurred next remains somewhat unclear," according to the review. Jenneiahn told prosecutors that at some point, when Condon returned to the living room after having rummaged through her home, he again threatened to kill her. "She ultimately made the decision that it was 'now or never' and drew her concealed 357 magnum and engaged Condon striking him with both her shots," the review says.

Condon returned fire, striking Jenneiahn multiple times in her abdomen, a leg, an arm and her chest with a 9 mm pistol, according to the review. Condon went to the kitchen, where he died from the gunshot wounds.

Jenneiahn, still handcuffed, fell over and remained on the floor for about 10 hours until her son came upstairs in the late morning and gave her a phone to call 911. Deputies responded at about 12:17 p.m., the review says.

EastIdahoNews.com reported that Jenneiahn was taken to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls. She has been released and is recovering, it reported.

Subsequent investigation turned up a broken window in the back of the residence and a screwdriver near where Condon broke in, according to the review. On his body, Condon had a lock pick set, his car key, a handcuff key and a bag filled with items stolen from the home.

Condon's car was also found near the home, according to the review, and a set of footprints leading from the vehicle in the direction of the home was discovered.

Based on Idaho's self-defense law, which states, "No person in this state shall be placed in legal jeopardy of any kind whatsoever for protecting himself," Jolley ruled the killing justifiable.

"This case presents an easy analysis of self-defense and justifiable homicide," Jolley wrote. "It also presents one of the most heroic acts of self-preservation I have ever heard of."

He added: "Absent a clear attempt by Condon to retreat from the residence or surrender, which based on the evidence clearly did not occur, Christine was justified in taking any and all means necessary to defend herself and her son that night."

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Joseph Bryan Capstraw aka “Shaggy Capstraw” aka “Stevage Sage”, Kentucky inmate 313186, born 1997, incarceration intake in March 2020 at age 22, available for parole consideration June 2038, with full release June 2068

Murder

A man accused of killing a teenager in a “blackout rage” in Hardin County was convicted of murder in February 2020.

Joseph Capstraw was charged in the July 2018 killing of 18-year-old Amber Robinson.

The two had hitch-hiked from a Rainbow Family Festival in Georgia, and ended up at a home on Joan Avenue in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Capstraw told police that the two had gotten into an argument, and he blacked out. When he awakened, he found Robinson’s body badly beaten, and his hands injured. 

Spending about 45 minutes on the witness stand during his trial, the accused killer admitted he lied about being attacked by Amber Robinson with a knife but remained steadfast that he “blacked out” after drinking a mix of whiskey and grape Crush and awoke to find Robinson laying in a pool of blood inside an Elizabethtown home.

Dressed in a checkered pur­ple dress shirt with a tie and khaki pants, Capstraw, 22, show­ed only a few glimpses of emotion as he told his story to a jury of nine men and five women. 

During intense questioning from prosecution co-counsel Jim Lesousky, Capstraw looked down and rarely looked toward Lesousky, his an­swers barely audible.

Capstraw said he caused the 13 cuts on his left forearm, saying after he saw a bloodied Robinson, “I was attempting to commit suicide.”

Some of the marks barely broke his skin, according to photos shown in Hardin Circuit Court. Two of the cuts appeared to be much deeper.

He said on the night of July 6, he and Ro­bin­son were alone in a Joan Avenue home and became engaged in an argument and that she struck him in the face He said he then “blacked out” from the alcohol and saw his hitch-­hiking partner on the floor. He then went into the kitchen and grabbed a knife and attempted to kill himself.  He previously had said the cuts were caused by Robinson attacking him with a knife.

Lesousky pounced on the issue of cuts along Capstraw’s left forearm.

The defendant was the only witness called by the defense.

He opted to go to trial and testify after refusing two plea-deal offers from prosecutors — one for 40 years and the other 35 years, according to a discussion in the courtroom involving attorneys and Hardin Circuit Judge Kelly Mark Easton. 

At no point during his time on the stand did he apologize for what happened to Robinson.

He said he and Rob­inson met in June 2018 at a Rain­bow Family of the Liv­ing Light festival near Dahlon­ega, Georgia, that had between 2,500 and 3,000 people in attendance.

“I was standing on a ledge looking away from her and I was really depressed and down that day and something in my head told me to turn around,” he testified. “There she was ... when we looked into each others eyes she started smiling. We couldn’t stay away from each other that day.”

Capstraw said he had “wandered, traveled the road” since he was 18 and aged out of the foster care system in Jacksonville, Florida.

“I was basically put out on the streets,” he said.

Robinson also had spent time in the foster care system.

Capstraw said he had made money at odd jobs and as a street performer where he would sing and play the guitar.

A jury deliberated 6½ hours in reaching its verdict of guilty. The jury recommended a sentence of 50 years in prison, which is what the Judge gave.

In a separate matter; In May 2017 Capstraw was charged in Florida with attempted murder in the second degree after allegedly stabbing a homeless man in the throat and chest in Jacksonville Beach. Capstraw admitted to officers that he cut the man and buried the knife before flagging down police.

The then 19-year-old said it was in self-defense after two men with knives began to harass Capstraw and his friends, according to a report from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

The charges were dropped a month later when witnesses backed Capstraw's claim of self-defense.

In February 2022, an appeal to the  Kentucky Supreme Court to have his 2020 murder conviction overturned was denied.

Capstraw appealed the conviction on the grounds the court allowed the admission of “eight gruesome photographs” as evidence; jury instructions violated his right to a unanimous verdict; the admission of Capstraw’s medical records showing he had injuries to his hands and essentially no alcohol in his system, and that any jail fees assessed should be dismissed.

In an opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Debra Hembree Lambert, the court affirmed Capstraw’s conviction and decided to vacate jail fees.

“... we agree with the trial court’s determination that the probative value of the admitted photos was not substantially outweighed by a risk of undue prejudice to Capstraw. The only issue the jury had to decide in this case was whether Capstraw acted intentionally or wantonly,” according to the opinion.

It also was determined during the trial “... that one of Amber’s causes of death was manual strangulation, which further suggested that Capstraw acted with intent,” the opinion continued. She also died from blunt force trauma, according to an autopsy report.

The admission of photos was a major point of contention before the trial by Capstraw’s defense. In the end, Circuit Judge Kelly Mark Easton allowed for some photos to be used.

Capstraw and his defense attorneys also didn’t object to the jury instruction ultimately submitted, the court summary said.

The Supreme Court also disagreed with the assertion that medical reports shouldn’t have been introduced as evidence. Capstraw had said he was so intoxicated that he had “blacked out.”

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The top executive for San Jose’s police union imported synthetic opioids over an eight-year period to orchestrate a national drug ring that disguised packages of pills as wedding gifts, makeup and chocolate, federal officials said Wednesday.

Joanne Marian Segovia, the 64-year-old executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association, used her home computer and police union equipment to facilitate the mailing of the synthetic opioids, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The drug smuggling allegedly took place from October 2015 to January 2023, with Segovia facilitating more than 60 shipments from Hong Kong, Hungary, India and Singapore.

In a three-and-a-half-year period ending in January, officials allegedly intercepted five shipments to Segovia that contained thousands of pills, including synthetic opioids Tramadol and Tapentadol... 

Segovia allegedly used the encrypted messenger WhatsApp to handle logistics, exchanging hundreds of messages with someone using a phone with an India country code. The messages—containing shipping and payment details, pictures and receipts—continued into this month even after federal investigators interviewed Segovia in February, prosecutors said.

On March 13, federal agents in Kentucky seized a package that contained valeryl fentanyl and was addressed to Segovia, officials said. The package originated from China and the contents were listed as a “clock.”

Segovia was charged with attempting to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl, according to a complaint that was unsealed Tuesday. The complaint alleges Segovia was apprehended as part of an ongoing Homeland Security investigation into controlled substances being shipped into the Bay Area from abroad.

Will Edelman, an attorney listed for Segovia in court records, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Edelman previously worked as a federal prosecutor in the same U.S. Attorney’s Office that charged Segovia, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The complaint against Segovia said that she told federal investigators she had nothing to do with the drug smuggling and blamed the shipments of pills on a woman she identified “as a family friend and housekeeper.”

Segovia allegedly told investigators that after their February meeting, she realized “like a light bulb” that it must be this unnamed woman who smuggled the drugs.

However, the complaint casts doubt on Segovia’s statements and includes photos that she allegedly sent to a collaborator. One image shows a computer with police union work materials in view and another shows her signature on a packing slip sent from the police union address. 

Tom Saggau, a spokesperson for the San Jose Police Officers' Association, said the union became aware of the alleged crimes on Friday and has been cooperating with federal authorities. He added that Segovia had no role in handling financials for the organization and was not involved in decisions about the organization’s stance on police issues.

“No one at the POA is involved or had prior knowledge of the alleged acts,” Saggau said. “The POA immediately placed the civilian employee on leave and as is standard procedure cut off all access to the POA. The board of directors is saddened and disappointed at hearing this news, and we have pledged to provide our full support to the investigative authorities.”

-- “SJ Police Union Exec Accused of Smuggling Drugs as Wedding Gifts, Chocolate” by Josh Koehn for The San Francisco Standard, 29 Mar 2023

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[coochiequeens]

Ladies be careful. This guy is free.

Content Warning: This article contains graphic details of a crime committed against a child. Reader discretion is appreciated.

A trans-identified male who brutally raped and tortured a little girl to death has completed his sentence and been fully released from New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision custody.

Synthia China Blast, born Luis Morales, was sentenced in 1996 for the horrific rape and murder of 13-year-old Ebony Nicole Williams. Blast, along with his boyfriend Carlos Franco, were sentenced to 25 years for the crime, one that had both sexist and racist motivation.

Blast and Franco, members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation gang, targeted the young girl less than 24 hours after she had run away from home. Williams was known to sometimes run away from her home in Harlem, and her mother hadn’t initially suspected foul play when she didn’t show back up, assuming she was staying with extended family as she had done in the past.

The same day as Williams had run away, she was kidnapped by Blast and Franco, and taken to an apartment in Hunts Point where she was held captive. The men had likely recognized her from previous visits to the neighborhood she had made while looking for a place to stay with her older sister, and some accounts state that she had been targeted based on her race.

Blast repeatedly raped Williams, and he and Franco tortured the young girl further before stabbing her in an attempt to kill her. Realizing she was still alive after having been slashed by Blast, Franco then stomped on the child’s neck until it was broken.

Following her death, Blast and Franco packed the girl’s small body into a box and dumped it near the Sheridan Expressway. Finally, they doused the box in gasoline, and set it ablaze. A passenger on a nearby train saw the flames and called 911.

After extinguishing the fire, attending detective Sergeant Michael Garvey noted that there had been no means of identifying Williams as she was completely naked, and had been badly mutilated. “All I saw was that her hair had been worn in corn rows,” he said at the time of the investigation. 

During the trial, Bronx Prosecutor William Hrabsky said of the crime: “The suffering that this poor child went through is beyond belief and puts this crime in the category of monstrous and barbarous.”

Despite pleading innocence in court and to media in later interview, Blast had reportedly “bragged” about committing the crime to friends, some of whom would later testify against him on this basis. Blast and Franco both received 25-to-life for the murder of Williams, but the rape charge was not pursued. 

Blast reportedly suggested he avoided the rape conviction because of his gender identity and homosexual orientation.

“They had to switch their story in the trial because how do you tell the jury that he had on a dress and then he was raping a girl?” He is quoted as saying, claiming he had never had sexual intercourse with a female. But the determining factor was likely that DNA was unable to be recovered from Williams due to the state of her remains, which were so destroyed that she was only able to be identified through dental records.

During the trial, Blast and Franco were reportedly blasé about the crime they’d committed, and had even been laughing at times during the hearings. A statement given by Yvonne Hill, Williams’ mother, at the time of their sentencing condemned the two for their behavior throughout the process.

“Ever since the trial was going on, all I see is Luis Morales grinning and Carlos Franco, too,” Hill said, referring to Blast by the name he had used at the time. “You ain’t smiling today. I hope you both rot in hell.”

Following his detention, Blast became a noted advocate for incarcerated trans people’s rights, successfully demanding the state of New York provide him with feminizing hormones in 1999, and suing the state in 2003 after having been refused sex reassignment surgery.

Blast repeatedly became a media sensation for his sexual exploits while in custody, beginning a romantic relationship with Heriberto “Eddie” Seda, a convicted serial killer who had sought to murder one person of each zodiac sign as an homage to San Fransisco’s infamous Zodiac Killer. Blast and Seda’s relationship was dotingly covered by the New Yorker in 2004, who even commissioned a portrait photograph of the couple.

“I met my friend, lover and infamous husband… the NYC Zodiac Serial Killer,” Blast told the New York Daily News. “My sweet serial killer is a lady’s man now. Only if I was a real woman I could bring about little future serial killers to terrorize NYC like my husband did. How [New Yorkers] would of loathed the Zodiac Children.”

Blast and Seda were ultimately separated from each other by the Department of Corrections. 

In 2015, Jezebel published an article condemning Blast’s treatment while in prison, noting that he had been in involuntary protective custody (IPO), or solitary confinement, for almost two decades. The article followed a petition launched by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SLRP), a trans activist legal organization, which sought to pressure New York State into releasing Blast from IPO. The SLRP had, at one point, used Orange is the New Black actor Laverne Cox to speak on Blast’s behalf.

The Jezebel article slammed “trans-exclusionary” feminist Cathy Brennan for calling Blast a “man who now identifies as a woman,” and glossed over the details of Blast’s crime in favor of giving him a platform to claim innocence. 

Blast was similarly profiled in a 2017 VICE article in which he called for trans-identified males to be housed with women.

According to the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), Blast was paroled in 2018. 

One year after being paroled, Blast appeared as a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project’s prisoner advisory committee, and was interviewed in a video with three other trans-identified males. The video was posted to the SRLP’s Facebook.

“I came from being in a jail cell to learning about SRLP and its mission, who Sylvia Rivera, as a person, actually was, and … about Marsha P. Johnson, and I was definitely hooked into this movement,” Blast said.

“We all have a voice. And we live in a time, today, where that voice is finally being heard. We haven’t reached that milestone yet. We are all screaming together, and now they are finally listening,” Blast says, then beginning to promote the SRLP as a center which can help transgender people change their names and legal identity, “Whenever I find a transgender person, I ask them: Do you know about the Sylvia Rivera Law Project?”

The most recent update on Blast’s file with DOCCS shows that he was discharged from parole supervision on July 30, 2022, quietly marking the completion of his sentence for the 1996 murder of Ebony Nicole Williams.

By Anna Slatz Anna is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Reduxx, with a journalistic focus on covering crime, child predators, and women's rights. She lives in Canada, enjoys Opera, and kvetches in her spare time.

[izzytheace]

I had a random au idea where Miles Edgeworth is 6 years younger than he is in canon. Same age as Franziska but several months older (she still is "big sister"). He also became prosecutor at 13 like Franziska, so there were TWO angry 13 year olds in the courtroom. DL-6 incident happened when he was 7 instead of 9, the statue of limitations is 10, and Phoenix's incisive moment was when this 7 year old stood up for him at the playground when he was accused of theft and he was moved that this little boy was willing to help when no one else would.

[beevean]

🔥 Ace attorney

🔥 Ace attorney

Main series: I don't find Franziska all that appealing, but at the same time I appreciate her tragic backstory. Her behavior is a relatively realistic consequence of becoming a prosecutor at 13 (she basically stopped developing after that)... but her whip gimmick is by far the most annoying of the prosecutors, because it's too over the top even for this series. The fact that, after she became more "sympathetic", she started to whip only men and sparing women makes her even worse.

I also don't think Manfred was abusive like he's often portrayed in fanfics. He seems to have been a doting family man, although of course he wasn't cute and affectionate. (Edgeworth is another story)

GAA series: I don't like Iris at all. There's nothing wrong with her character, she's a sweet girl, but... well, right above I said that Franziska's stunted development is a fairly realistic consequence of being a prodigy. Iris has none of that. You really want me to believe that a 10 year old girl, who got a medical degree after studying for 1.5 years, who has to take care of a grown ass man who's supposed to be her adoptive father, would behave like a normal, well adjusted child? She has no flaws, she has no weaknesses, the first game is all about how amazing she is, and she ends up saving the day alongside Sholmes in the most absurd way they could have thought. Her writing is so annoying, and it's a shame because she can be really cute (I loved when Ryuu takes her with him at the scientific fair, big bro time <3)

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cant stop thinking abt iris going “yep im a medical doctor! yep even though im ten!” and then itsjust like. Never talked about again. like she couldve been joking but this is ace attorney the series where franziska became a prosecutor at age 13. i wholeheartedly believe her. But thats insane. can you imagine. its 1895 youre going to a fucking proper nice university as a medical student and you look around and theres a pink haired 6 year old girl there. and she’s doing a good job

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The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris

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The Reintroduction of Kamala Harris

The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama. Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6, Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted with a kind of reception a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t gotten in years. Fans packed into overflow spaces, waving homemade signs made of glitter and glue as drumlines roared. When Harris introduced her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the cheering lasted more than a minute.

If you’d predicted this scene a month ago to anyone following the race, they would never have believed you. But Harris has pulled off the swiftest vibe shift in modern political history. A contest that revolved around the cognitive decline of a geriatric President has been transformed: Joe Biden is out, Harris is in, and a second Donald Trump presidency no longer seems inevitable. Democrats resigned to a “grim death march” toward certain defeat, as one national organizer put it, felt their gloom replaced by a jolt of hope. Harris smashed fundraising records, raking in $310 million in July. She packed stadiums and dominated TikTok, offering a fresh message focused on the future over the past. Volunteers signed up in droves. Trump’s widening leads across the battleground states evaporated. Over the span of a few weeks in late July and early August, Harris became a political phenomenon. “Our campaign is not just a fight against Donald Trump,” she told the cheering crowd in Philadelphia. “Our campaign is a fight for the future.”

Where has this Kamala Harris been all along? For years, Democratic officials questioned her political chops, pundits mocked her word salads, and her polling suggested limited appeal. Her performance in the 2020 presidential primary was wooden, and her turn as Biden’s No. 2 did little to inspire confidence. Even this summer, as party insiders chattered about possible replacements if Biden stepped aside, “it was explicit from some of the major donors that she can’t win,” says Amanda Litman, the co-founder of Run for Something, an organization that trains young Democrats to run for office. “They didn’t think people were ready to elect someone like her.”

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Judging from the past few weeks, Harris’ own party underestimated her. Maybe the crowded 2020 primary just wasn’t the right race for Harris to showcase her talents; maybe the vice presidency wasn’t the right role. Suddenly, she seems matched to the moment: a former prosecutor running against a convicted felon, a defender of abortion rights running against the man who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, a next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican. Perhaps above all, she has given Americans the one thing they overwhelmingly told pollsters they wanted: a credible alternative to the two unpopular old men who have held the job for the past eight long years.

Harris may still be the underdog. Trump has arguably the clearer path to 270 electoral votes and an edge on the issues that voters say are most important to them. Harris will have to answer for the Biden Administration’s record, including on inflation and border security. Republicans are casting her as a coastal elite, pointing to positions she took in the 2020 primary—arguing for gun buybacks, a ban on fracking, and an overhaul of the health-insurance system—that may indeed be too liberal to win over many of the swing voters who decide elections. Harris has yet to do a single substantive interview or to explain her policy shifts. (Her campaign denied a request for an interview for this story.) She has to repair ruptures in the party coalition, galvanizing the Black, Hispanic, Arab American, and young voters who migrated away from Biden. Though her early polling numbers are far better than Biden’s were, she lags his 2020 support with some key demographic groups she needs to win.

Harris has less than 90 days to prove that she can convert the momentum of her successful launch into a tough, smart operation capable of beating a former President with a dedicated base of support and a knack for commanding the stage. She inherited a campaign infrastructure and policy record from her predecessor, but the energy is all hers. Picking Walz as a running mate over more conventional choices signals a belief that this race is as much about feelings as it is about fundamentals. Harris’ brand shift—the happy-warrior attitude, the viral memes, the eye roll at Republican “weirdos”—has already done what no Trump opponent has ever been able to do: snatch the spotlight away from him.

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She may seem like an overnight sensation, but Harris’ moment was years in the making. Quietly, her small team of top aides had been laying the groundwork for a future presidential run. After the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, the Vice President added reproductive rights to her portfolio. Abortion was never a comfortable issue for Biden, a devout Catholic, but it was a natural fit for his No. 2. Harris believed that with Roe gone, Republicans would turn their sights to restricting both birth control and IVF. In the months after Dobbs, she traveled the U.S., talking about abortion rights as a matter of “reproductive freedom.” As far back as the 2022 midterms, aides say, she argued for making this the core of the party’s national message, even as the White House focused on jobs and the economy.

During those travels, Harris’ team assembled a spreadsheet of allies, power brokers, and potential delegates to tap if and when the time came. Every photo line, every VIP invitation, every clutch with labor leaders, every meeting with key constituencies was filed away. The goal, advisers say, was to ensure there would be allies on every delegate slate in every state in the nation. “We had a list,” says one top aide, “and we checked it twice.”

The list was intended for 2028. But when Biden dropped out on July 21 and quickly endorsed Harris, it was instantly pressed into service. The Vice President—clad in a Howard University sweatshirt, munching pizza with anchovies—spent the next 10 hours on the phone, dialing delegates and wrangling endorsements. A day later, the nomination was all but hers. Even though other presidential hopefuls had ties to swing states or big donors, “the list was the thing that we had that they didn’t,” says a top aide. “It wasn’t a fairy godmother waving a magic wand.”

Harris’ ability to sew up the nomination so quickly was a triumph of work ethic and political dexterity that foreshadowed what was to come. “To consolidate the Democratic Party in a matter of hours, to do as many visible events and establish that presence without putting a foot wrong, is a feat,” says Pete Buttigieg, the Transportation Secretary who ran against Harris for the 2020 nomination and was a finalist to become her running mate. “I don’t think anybody expected her to be so flawless.”

With Biden no longer atop the ticket, the moribund Democratic grassroots came to life. Harris was capable of delivering a message that never felt quite right under Clinton or Biden: that theirs was the party of the future, and Trump was of the past. Her campaign raised $200 million in the first week, in what it said was the best 24 hours of any candidate in presidential-campaign history. More than 38,000 people registered on Vote.org in the 48 hours after she became the presumptive nominee, eclipsing the voter-registration surge encouraged by Taylor Swift last year. Within a week, Harris erased Trump’s polling dominance in key states, turning a burgeoning landslide into a dead heat.

“Elections come down to vibes, and Kamala has got the vibes right now,” says David Hogg, co-founder of the Gen Z political organization Leaders We Deserve. After spending his entire political career organizing against Trump and his allies, Hogg explains, it felt good to finally have someone to vote for. “People are feeling the type of energy they felt during the Obama campaign,” says Michigan state senator Darrin Camilleri, who spends his weekends door-knocking in his competitive district south of Detroit. “It feels different than with Hillary, different than with Biden.”

Celebrities like Charli XCX and Megan Thee Stallion came out in support of Harris. Speaking in a packed airplane hangar in Detroit, UAW president Shawn Fain called her a “badass woman.” The campaign’s new Harris-Walz camo hats sold out within half an hour. Grassroots groups are seeing an explosion in fundraising and volunteer sign-ups. “My niece, who called Biden ‘Genocide Joe,’ called me to say, ‘Auntie, I want to do something,’” recalls LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter.

The shift is perhaps most visible in the digital sphere. While millions of hardcore Democrats would crawl over broken glass to keep Trump from re-election, less reliable voters in Gen Z are especially attuned to online trends. For months, President Biden’s online supporters have been on the defensive about his support for Israel’s war against Hamas. Comments about Gaza flooded pro-Biden content posted to social platforms, making it difficult to create what digital strategists call a “permission structure” to support him. To many, it evoked the online mobs who would mock Clinton supporters in 2016, preventing her from building traction on social media. “In 2016, if you wanted to be an online supporter of Hillary Clinton, you did it in a private Facebook group,” says Litman. “In 2024, you blast it on TikTok, and you’re part of the K-Hive and you make your username the coconut tree.”

Even if Washington was taken by surprise, the energetic fighter of the past two weeks matches the Harris whom allies say they have known for years. Louise Renne, a former San Francisco city attorney, recalls that when Harris took over the city’s interest in adoption cases in the DA’s office, she brought an armful of teddy bears to court on her first day. Andrea Dew Steele, a donor-adviser who snacked on wine and cheese with Harris as they typed up her first political bio sheet for her 2003 campaign for San Francisco DA, remembers Harris sitting outside grocery stores with an ironing board stacked with campaign literature. Those who made it through her 2020 primary recall that after she dropped out, she joined the last of her staff in a dance party in the campaign headquarters.

Harris’ early allies in California may have seen glimpses of Barack Obama, but her turn on the national stage has seemed more Selina Meyer. After a splashy kickoff in 2019, the Harris 2020 campaign stalled, then sputtered out. Aides say she took advice from too many different advisers offering conflicting guidance. Her record as a prosecutor was unwieldy baggage for a Democratic primary shadowed by a movement for racial justice. In a contest defined by Bernie Sanders on one side and Biden on the other, she never found her lane. Her operation was plagued with mismanagement and infighting. Harris seemed tentative and insecure, terrified of putting a foot wrong. “We did a disservice to her in 2020,” admits Bakari Sellers, a state co-chair on that campaign. “We Bubble-Wrapped her.” Enthusiasm waned; the money dried up. She dropped out long before the first votes were cast in the Iowa caucuses.

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Her early months as VP were checkered too. Big interviews went poorly; Harris seemed ill-prepared and unsteady on her feet. Biden reportedly vented to a friend that she was a “work in progress.” He saddled her with a portfolio of difficult, thankless work, like addressing the root causes of the flow of undocumented immigrants from Central America’s Northern Triangle. By 2023, Harris had the lowest approval ratings for a Vice President in history. “It’s always hard for the Vice President, because the President is the one setting the policy, taking the responsibility,” says Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and close ally of Harris. “And historically, Vice Presidents have often taken on the work that the President doesn’t want to do.” Another Democrat puts it more bluntly: “They set her up to fail from day one.”

One challenge for Harris has been the people around her. Over the years, a rotating cast of senior staff has clouded her message and raised questions about her abilities as a manager. “She needs a few political consiglieres in her life. She doesn’t have a North Star guiding her,” says one Democratic strategist. “She has made novice political moves that the political elite and the pundits have glommed onto, that have pushed the narrative that she’s not ready for prime time.”

That narrative has been out of date for some time, according to allies who have worked with her and watched her closely. “To the extent anyone was paying attention, they saw this negative stuff amplified and dialed up by the right. Then there stopped being coverage of her,” says a close adviser. The caricature of Harris, the adviser says, became “frozen in time. Meanwhile, the VP continued her work leading on a bunch of important issues. But people weren’t really tracking that.” Longtime allies argue that many of her Senate priorities—on criminal-justice reform, on racial equity, on maternal health—became Administration priorities. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, another former 2020 presidential rival, says that over the past three years, Harris has mastered the art of “arm twisting” required to pass major legislation and become a “global diplomat” championing Democratic goals. “She has gone,” Booker says, “from being a Padawan to a Jedi master.”

Yet if Harris was widely underestimated, it’s also true that her circumstances have radically changed. Success in politics is situational. Harris no longer has to compete with more than 20 other Democrats for attention on the campaign trail, or contort herself to appease liberal pieties to win over the party’s base. She no longer has to be a loyal deputy to the President who calls all the shots. Now the moment is finally hers.

Republicans admit Harris will be harder to beat than a diminished Biden. But they believe the candidate riding high the past few weeks will soon, under sustained attack, come down to earth. “If she runs the same kind of campaign she ran in 2019 and 2020, her campaign will collapse and Donald Trump will waltz into the White House,” Republican pollster Whit Ayres says. “On the other hand, if she has learned as much as her allies and friends say she has in the last four years, she will give Trump a real run for his money.”

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Harris campaign officials say they remain focused on the seven key battleground states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. With Harris atop the ticket, those states “are even more in play for us, stronger for us than they might have been otherwise,” says Dan Kanninen, the campaign’s battleground director. Harris is more popular with younger, Black, and Latino voters than Biden was when he dropped out of the race, according to polling, which puts her in a stronger position to win the Sun Belt states. At the same time, she may be losing ground with older white voters, which makes her more vulnerable in the trio of “Blue Wall” states—Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—that form that core of the Democrats’ Electoral College strategy. To shore up those states, Harris is leaning on her major labor endorsements and making multiple visits to the upper Midwest.

Harris inherited Biden’s campaign infrastructure, including more than 260 outposts across the battleground states. In Nevada, the Harris campaign has 13 field offices to Trump’s one; in Pennsylvania, it has 36 coordinated offices to Trump’s three, according to a campaign memo. In the first 12 days of her campaign, Harris supporters placed 2.3 million phone calls and made 172,000 house visits. While battleground organizers are knocking on swing voters’ doors, the campaign’s digital strategy is designed partly around “reaching hard-to-reach voters and convincing them to choose between our candidate and the couch,” says deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty. The avalanche of viral memes about Harris, the enthusiastic TikTok videos, and the massive Zoom calls of devoted supporters (Black Women for Harris, White Dudes for Harris, Latino Men for Harris) have made this task easier. “That’s the kind of enthusiasm that money can’t buy,” Flaherty says.

Even so, many Democrats still believe Trump’s advantages will be difficult to overcome. “I’m paranoid,” says Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan. “We still have to make sure that we are talking in the union halls and talking to veterans [in the way] that Joe Biden has done.”

But Harris’ moment also comes after eight years of transformation and triumph for American women. After Clinton’s stinging defeat in 2016, women flooded the streets in the largest protest march in U.S. history, then formed a massive grassroots electoral movement that helped Democrats overperform in most elections since. #MeToo reshaped the culture; Dobbs reshaped the electorate. Mass enthusiasm for a woman is nothing new: Harris’ run comes just a year after the blockbuster summer of Barbie, Beyoncé, and Swift. This time around, there is less hand-wringing over whether a woman is electable. “The attack lines from the Republicans are going to be on race and gender, and those are going to work to her advantage,” says Ashley Etienne, a former communications director for the Vice President. “All that was baggage is now an asset.”

Whether Harris can sustain her early success is an open question. What’s clear is that she has changed the trajectory of the election. “The whole vibe just shifted. We were looking at two candidates nobody was that excited about,” explains Leanne Weiner, 39, who wore a “Childless Cat Ladies for Harris” T-shirt as she waited in line for chicken fingers at the massive Philadelphia rally in front of another fan in a “Blasians for Harris” shirt. “Now there’s a new energy, a new force, an ability to pull in people who might be unsure.”

—With reporting by Leslie Dickstein and Julia Zorthian/New York and Brian Bennett, Philip Elliott, and Nik Popli/Washington

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Dismissed Catholic Priest remanded in Prison custody allegedly defiling teenager A dismissed Catholic priest, Stephen Nwaigwe has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping and impregnating a teenager in Anambra State. An Awka Chief Magistrates’ Court, otherwise known as the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court of Anambra State, ordered the remand when the matter came up in court. Vanguatd rrports, Nwaigwe was among the priests expelled by a popular Catholic Faith-Based Religious Congregation in Orlu, Imo State, known as the Two Hearts of Love Congregation” in 2018, for alleged misconducts inimical to the image of the church. However, in spite of his dismissal as a priest, Nwaigwe has continued to carry out religious activities at the invitation of groups and organizations and going from place to place. He was accused of impregnating a minor and taking her to Benin City, Edo State where the baby was delivered, although the police said the whereabouts of the said baby is still unknown. It was gathered that Nwaigwe met the teenager at the St. Albert The Great Catholic Church Parish, Obosi, Anambra State, where he was invited for a church programme. According to the victim, Nwaigwe took her from her parents to live with him when she was 14 years old, with the promise to sponsor her education, adding that she equally served as his cook. She added that not long after she moved into his house, he started molesting her sexually until she became pregnant at the age of 17. She further stated that when she informed him about her pregnancy, the former priest took her from Ihiala, Anambra State, where they lived, to somewhere in Benin City, Edo State to the house of a couple he introduced to her as his brother and brother’s wife. She said: “While on our way to Benin City, Father told me to say that I was gang-raped. But I have never been raped before, except the ones he did to me in his house. “When I gave birth to my baby at a native birth attendant’s house in Benin City, I was told that the baby died and when I made efforts for them to show me the dead baby, they said it had been buried”. During the remand proceedings, the police prosecutor informed the court that there was a probable cause to order the remand of the former priest. However, the defence counsel applied for bail of the defendant, urging the court to exercise its discretion of bail in favour of the defendant, citing Sections 13(3), 71(3), 72 and 73 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) of Anambra State, 2022, as well as, Sections 35 and 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended. He also prayed the court to grant bail to the former priest in most liberal terms; assuring the court that Nwaigwe would never jump bail, if granted. But opposing the bail application by the defence counsel, the police prosecutor stated that the case before the court was an offence against a minor who was supposedly under the spiritual guardianship of the defendant. The prosecuting police officer emphasized that the defendant had since been suspended by the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church, noting that the claim that the defendant had serious health challenge to warrant being granted bail, was never certified by a qualified medical personnel, as required by law. According to the police prosecutor, the defendant could jump bail and leave the country without standing trial, if granted bail. Ruling on the bail application, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe, stated that the case before the court was an offence punishable with life imprisonment, regretting that the offence of rape against minors was becoming rampant in the society. While urging Nwaigwe to seek his bail at the High Court, the presiding Chief Magistrate ordered the prosecuting police officer to transmit the original case file to the office of the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice of Anambra State.

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A 24-year-old social worker in Ohio who is charged with having sex with a 13-year-old boy she was assigned to counsel, now faces additional charges for allegedly trying to intimidate the boy’s family.

Columbus, Ohio ABC station WSYX reported that Payton Shires appeared before a judge last week and became emotional as the charges were read to her.

Court records show a warrant was issued for Shires’ arrest on Oct. 26. And she was arraigned in court on Oct. 28 on charges of intimidating a witness by force or threat.

OHIO SOCIAL WORKER, 24, CHARGED WITH HAVING SEX WITH 13-YEAR-OLD CLIENT: REPORTS

During the hearing, prosecutors said Shires showed up at the 13-year-old boy’s home, with a gun.

While there, she threatened to kill herself, the station reported, and blamed the family for "ruining her life."

On Oct. 6, Payton was arrested without incident and admitted to a sexual relationship during a three-way call between Shires, the boy’s mother and police, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Shires was previously employed by the National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP), which provides counseling, social work and advocacy for families involved in the foster care system, the report said. It is unclear when she stopped working for the organization.

The boy’s mom called police on Sept. 27 after finding suspicious text messages on the 13-year-old’s cellphone from Shires.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER ACCUSED OF RAPING STUDENT IMPLIES SHE'S PREGNANT WITH HIS CHILD: REPORT

When police searched the phone, they found a video of the teen and Shires engaged in sexual conduct, according to court records. The teen reportedly told detectives he had sex with Shires multiple times in September at different locations in Columbus.

She was charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and held on $500,000 bond.

Because of the new charges, Shires’s bond has been revoked, and she is expected to remain behind bars until her next court appearance scheduled for Nov. 6.

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A 24-year-old social worker in Ohio who is charged with having sex with a 13-year-old boy she was assigned to counsel, now faces additional charges for allegedly trying to intimidate the boy’s family.Columbus, Ohio ABC station WSYX reported that Payton Shires appeared before a judge last week and became emotional as the charges were read to her.Court records show a warrant was issued for Shires’ arrest on Oct. 26. And she was arraigned in court on Oct. 28 on charges of intimidating a witness by force or threat.OHIO SOCIAL WORKER, 24, CHARGED WITH HAVING SEX WITH 13-YEAR-OLD CLIENT: REPORTSShires, 24, is charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.During the hearing, prosecutors said Shires showed up at the 13-year-old boy’s home, with a gun.While there, she threatened to kill herself, the station reported, and blamed the family for "ruining her life."READ ON THE FOX NEWS APPOn Oct. 6, Payton was arrested without incident and admitted to a sexual relationship during a three-way call between Shires, the boy’s mother and police, the Columbus Dispatch reported.DRUNK WOMAN WHO GROPED 13-YEAR-OLD VICTIM GIVEN SHOCKINGLY LIGHT PUNISHMENT BY COURTPolice said two 13-year-old boys were charged in connection with the fatal shooting, according to reports.Shires was previously employed by the National Youth Advocate Program (NYAP), which provides counseling, social work and advocacy for families involved in the foster care system, the report said. It is unclear when she stopped working for the organization.The boy’s mom called police on Sept. 27 after finding suspicious text messages on the 13-year-old’s cellphone from Shires.ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER ACCUSED OF RAPING STUDENT IMPLIES SHE'S PREGNANT WITH HIS CHILD: REPORTInside a courtroom with gavel in view.When police searched the phone, they found a video of the teen and Shires engaged in sexual conduct, according to court records. The teen reportedly told detectives he had sex with Shires multiple times in September at different locations in Columbus.She was charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor and held on $500,000 bond.CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPBecause of the new charges, Shires’s bond has been revoked, and she is expected to remain behind bars until her next court appearance scheduled for Nov. 6.Original article source: Ohio social worker accused of having sex with 13-year-old client, faces witness intimidation charges

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Man in court for beating his sister to coma in Benue

A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Makurdi, Benue State on Thursday, April 13, ordered that a 59-year-old man, Kelvin Iorfa, be remanded in a correction centre, pending legal advice. LIB reported that the 59-year-old church deacon was seen in a viral video brutally beating his sister, Mrs. Nguwasen Iorfa. He used what looked like a belt to whip the young woman until she fell to the ground. He then used a travelling bag to hit the lady until she fell and became unconscious. Even then, he kept kicking her and screaming at her as she lay on the ground. The police charged Iorfa with assault and attempted culpable homicide. The Magistrate, Mrs. Roseline Iyorshe, did not take the plea of Iorfa for want in jurisdiction. Iyorshe ordered the police to return the case file to the Benue Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice. She adjourned the case until June 8, for further mention. Earlier, the Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Godwin Ato told the court that the case was reported at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Makurdi by Jenkies Shade of KM 4 Gboko Road, Makurdi on April 11. Ato alleged that on April 10, Shade reported that Iorfa ruthlessly brutalised his older sister, Nguwasen of Clerk Quarters, Makurdi. "He hit her with an object on her head and other sensitive parts of her body until she became unconscious,” the prosecutor said. Following the petition, the prosecutor told the court that police detectives arrested Iorfa and he confessed to the crime. He said the offence contravenes the provisions of Sections 266 and 230 of the Penal Code Law of Benue State 2004. The prosecutor, who said investigation into the matter was still ongoing, prayed for an adjournment. Meanwhile, in his statement the suspect confessed that he had a heated argument with his younger sister, and it provoked him to beat her up that much. Read the full article

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No death au

Gregory lives and raises Miles just as he would have. Miles grows up traumatized but strong. He becomes a defense attorney. He has an apartment with Phoenix and Larry. He works for his dad and is a little too smart for his own good, but he's loved and cared for by everyone around him.

Franziska is raised just as she would have been without Miles. There was never any competition but no compassion, either. She became a prosecutor at 13 and shows no mercy. Von Karma hovers over her.

And then there's a case, and von Karma hears Miles Edgeworth is defending. He would have taken it himself, but he pulls strings and sends Franziska off to America to prosecute. They meet in the courtroom. Miles faces her as Gregory has taught him to do. With dignity and pride. No spite. No anger.

It's a tough day, they go back and forth, it's like chess. It's exilerating. Miles enjoys it far more than he should. But then there's decisive evidence Franziska presents that just doesn't seem right.

Trial ends for the day, Miles buys himself more time, and he asks Badd to help him look into it. And there it is. It's forged. Gregory begs him to be careful. Bring it up to the court behind closed doors, where Franziska won't know. Have it all taken care of without theatrics.

Miles remembers his father shaming von Karma in court when he was 9, though. He knows he could handle it quietly, but he doesn't. He shows off in court. He watches Franziska's eyes widen. She tries denying it. She insists it was given to her, told it was real. She sounds like a child trying to get out of trouble. She loses all of her cool despite the full day of shady prosecuting the day before.

She's penalized, Miles wins the case, Gregory scolds him for hours.

Von Karma, meanwhile, shows her a little warmth for the first time. He tells the Edgeworths shouldn't be trusted, that she can get revenge, that she can get even for 15 years of family rivalry. She thinks he means they can meet each other in court again, but he begins to tell her about an old case and shows her a letter to a Yani Yogi.

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Gerald & Charlene Gallego: The Sex Slave Killers

February 21, 2022

Gerald Armond Gallego was born on July 17, 1946 in Sacramento, California. His mother worked as a sex worker, while his father committed several crimes, and was eventually the first man executed in the Mississippi gas chamber in 1955 after killing a police officer during an escape from prison. 

Gerald himself began committing crimes at the age of 13, where he sexually abused a 6 year old girl. Before he began his murder spree in later years, he had 23 arrests under his belt and had served time for robbery. 

Gerald worked as a bartender and a truck driver as an adult. He got married 7 different times, but 2 of these marriages were to the same woman. He was still married to another woman when he eventually married Charlene Williams. 

Charlene Adell Williams was born on October 10, 1956 in Stockton, California. She grew up in a supportive household, and was described as a smart yet shy child. When she became a young adult she began using drugs and drinking alcohol which changed her from the shy girl she used to be. Charlene had already been married twice before she met Gerald. 

On September 11, 1978, a 17 year old named Rhonda Scheffler and a 16 year old named Kippi Vaught disappeared from a mall in Sacramento. Charlene Gallego had lured the two girls to a van where her and Gerald abducted them. Gerald used a handgun to threaten the teenagers and tied them up. The couple drove them to Baxter, where Gerald raped and then murdered both Rhonda and Kippi. Both of them died from a single gunshot to the back of their heads.

On June 24, 1979, a 14 year old named Brenda Judd and a 13 year old named Sandra Colley were abducted from the Washoe County Fair in Reno, Nevada. Charlene later claimed that Gerald had beaten both teenagers to death with a shovel or a hammer. The remains of both Brenda and Sandra went 20 years before they were found and identified. 

On April 24, 1980, two 17 year olds named Stacy Ann Redican and Karen Chipman-Twiggs went missing from a Sacramento mall. They were both found a few months later in July. They had been sexually abused and bludgeoned to death. 

On June 6, 1980, a 21 year old pregnant woman named Linda Teresa Aguilar was abducted, murdered with a blunt object and buried in a shallow grave outside of Gold Beach, Oregon. 

On July 17, 1980, 31 year old bartender Virginia Mochel was abducted from the parking lot of a West Sacramento tavern. Her body was found with the nylon fishing line still bound, 3 months later outside of Clarksburg. The loops of cord around her neck showed she had been killed by strangulation. 

On November 1, 1980, 22 year old Craig Miller and his fiancé, 21 year old Mary Elizabeth Sowers were leaving a fraternity party when the Gallegos forced them into their car at gunpoint. Craig was ordered out of the car and shot, his body was found near Bass Lake, California. Gerald and Charlene took Mary back to their apartment where Gerald sexually abused her before they took her to a field in Placer County and Gerald murdered her. 

Craig and Mary’s friend had actually witnessed their abduction and reported the car’s license plate to police. Police used this to track down and arrest both Gerald and Charlene Gallego at a Western Union office where Charlene’s parents were tying to wire her money. 

Both Gerald and Charlene pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and murder. Charlene’s attorney’s were able to convince prosecutors to let Charlene testify against Gerald for a plea deal so she would only have to serve 16 years and 8 months for her involvement. 

In June 1983, Gerald was sentenced to death in California for the murders of Craig Miller and Mary Sowers. In June 1984, Gerald was convicted in Nevada for the murders of Karen Twiggs and Stacey Redican, also being sentenced to death. However, the Nevada death sentence was eventually overturned in 1997. 

In July 1997, Charlene finished her sentence and was released. While she was in prison she studied psychology, business and Icelandic literature. Charlene said later in interviews that she was also a victim of Gerald’s and that she had actually tried to save some of their victims lives. 

On July 18, 2002, only one day after Gerald Gallego’s 56th birthday, he died of cancer in a Nevada prison medical centre while awaiting execution. Charlene is still alive today, and is currently 65 years old. 

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The Supreme Court agreed to review two aspects of the actor’s case.

The seven judges reviewed Montgomery County Judge Steven T. O’Neill’s decision to let prosecutors call five other accusers to testify about long-ago encounters that never resulted in charges or police reports.

And they reviewed the questionable judge’s decision to allow the jury to hear unsubstantiated testimony from two-decade old depositions taken out of context at trial.

Judge Steven O’Neill has never explained why he allowed five women to testify in the second Cosby trial after allowing only one to do so at his first trial in 2017.

On Dec. 1–when it came to the Commonwealth’s rebuttal of the defense’s points of appeal attorney—Adrianne Jappe did not get through her opening comments before the judges began interrupting and interrogating her on the relevance of the five prior bad acts witnesses.

Justice Dougherty pointed out that one of the women – Lise-Lotte Lublin – had ‘no actual recollection of sexual contact’ but merely of losing consciousness.

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Jappe angered members of the court after instructing them not ‘to consider’ statistics in their decision making, according to an aide of one of the honorable justices.

Your Content exclusively revealed on Oct. 22 that Police in Arizona are stunned after a Pennsylvania prosecutor accommodated a fugitive prostitute to testify against the comedian in 2018.

Cosby, 83, has spent the past two years in a prison outside of Philadelphia after a jury convicted him in 2018 of three aggravated indecent assault counts—and the court deemed the elderly inmate a ‘sexually violent predator’ for posing an ‘imminent safety risk to women.’

From the moment the first witness took the stand, Your Content readers were spot-on in their questioning of trial tactics and backhanded deals cut amid the retrial—going as far as filing a motion to intervene in the trial after politicians tried to silence our publication and banish Your Content reporters from the proceedings.

But we conducted more than just research, providing game-changing scoops that impacted the trial to its core:

» Jun. 1, 17′: Bill Cosby to face a jury 13-years after allegations of sexual assault were made and ultimately debunked by investigating detectives.

» Jun. 5, 17′: Cosby arrives for his first day in court. Attorneys called the proceeding ‘an attack on human dignity.’

» Jun. 6, 17′: Jurors were drowned in reasonable doubt ‘on day two’ of the trial when attorneys revealed the motivation behind the ‘witness cult’s’ testimony: a $100 million payday.

» ‘One lie begets another lie begets another lie’: The judge finally cracked down on overzealous prosecutors after they tried tricking him by rephrasing the same question six times.

» Jun. 9, 17′: The trial’s briefest yet most powerful cross examination that derailed the questionable proceeding in just fifteen minutes.

» Jun. 12, 17′: Moments before the jury left to deliberate, Cosby’s lawyers moved for a mistrial on the grounds that the chief accuser had changed her story nearly two-dozen times.

» The ‘defining moment’ of the trial erupted as lawyers outed a hand-picked George Soros district attorney who prosecuted the funnyman solely to ‘bang on his throne.’

» Jun. 13, 17′: The chief Cosby accuser unleashed a tsunami of reasonable doubt upon jurors, who continually asked the court reread her testimony to weed out the conflicting statements.

» Jun. 15, 17′: Blockbuster revelations by Your Content funneled to our tipline by a juror claimed they would not be reaching a unanimous verdict.

» Despite a deadlocked jury, the hard-nosed court ordered they return after the weekend to continue deliberating until reaching a unanimous verdict.

» Jun. 17, 17′: After the jury informed the court once more of their deadlock, the judge declared a mistrial.

» Oct. 20, 17′: The former district attorney files a lawsuit against chief Cosby accuser Andrea Constand for working hand-in-glove with his competitor, Soros-funded Kevin Steele, in effort to secure an election and conviction.

» Nov. 9, 17′: An explosive report by Your Content reveals new information about Constand’s potential motivation behind the trial.

» Nov. 22, 17′: Your Content discovered Soros’ hand-picked district attorney worked closely with Constand to coordinate television commercials amid the heated election.

» How prosecutors initially claimed the former district attorney was ‘suing Contand more or less because he blames her for cooperating with police.’

» Jan. 11, 18′: Your Content attends a dinner with the funnyman for an exclusive tell-all before the retrial: ‘We’re Ready.’

» Jan. 28, 18′: Soros’ hand-picked district attorney is accused of destroying evidence and allowing perjury to secure a conviction. The FBI ‘cannot confirm nor deny’ an investigation into the accusations.

» Mar. 28, 18′: An exclusive Your Content investigation revealed that the presiding judge carried out an extramarital affair with a staffer of a key witness.

» Apr. 7, 18′: A juror is overheard by a Your Content reporter calling the comic ‘guilty’ immediately after being selected to serve on the panel.

» Apr. 10, 18′: Your Content exclusively reports that the prosecution intends to fly a wanted fugitive to testify, and they wined and housed the prostitute-turned-witness.

» Apr. 12, 18′: A key witness makes a bombshell revelation and confirms she previously sold Quaaludes to friends and never obtained the pill from Cosby.

» The moment Janice Dickinson revealed Robert De Niro partied at a nightclub that was full of ‘sex, drugs, cocaine and tea.’

» As their stories collided, accusers turned blame to magazine editors at New York Magazine of ‘condensing and editing’ their statements to publish on the cover.

» Your Content was first to report that the chief Cosby accuser claimed the comic tricked her into the situation by bribing her with ‘baked goods.’

» The powerful opening statement that painted the chief Cosby accuser as an ‘inconsistent money-hungry con artist.’

» How Gloria Allred’s representation of too many victims nearly derailed the case on day one.

» Apr. 15, 18′: Chief Cosby accuser Andrea Constand officially provides the sixth conflicting story as cross examination continued.

» Apr. 16, 18′: Constand is asked to reread all of her inconsistent statements back to the jury.

» When Hollywood’s heaviest-hitting private detective Scott Ross served Constand with a second subpoena as she left the courtroom.

» Apr. 16, 18′: At one point, testimony from the chief accuser became too confusing for the court and jurors, and Judge Steven O’Neill ordered she go home and do ‘homework’ over the weekend before returning to court Monday.

» Apr. 17, 18′: Your Content captured exclusive photographs of a staffer employed by the hand-picked Soros district attorney documenting each move Cosby made outside of the courtroom.

» Apr. 18, 18′: A key witness lost credibility when it’s discovered Cosby hadn’t been dubbed ‘America’s Dad’ until 1984, not 1982, as she claimed.

» It is discovered that Cosby never called Temple University to speak with chief accuser Constand, university staff reveal.

» Apr. 25, 18′: Closing arguments for the second trial begin. The defense drops a powerful remark: ‘A case that was rejected. A case that was revived. I’ll show you the sequence.’

» Jurors asked the court to re-play the testimony of Margo Jackson, who said the chief accuser confided in her and claimed she could accuse Cosby and ‘get money to go to school and open a business.’

» Unsatisfied jurors question the court: ‘We understand we could see things again?’ The judge allowed it and replayed the chilling testimony that accused Cosby’s accuser of falsifying her claims in pursuit of money.

» Prosecutors pulled an unprecedented stunt and compared Cosby to Casey Anthony in effort to hide the jurors from the media and public.

» Your Content flies the Canadian ex-boyfriend of chief Cosby accuser Andrea Constand to Philadelphia for an exclusive sit-down interview. He reveals the accuser’s family ‘despises black people’ and ‘used Cosby for revenge on all black people.’

» Soros’ hand-picked district attorney went through great lengths to keep his Florida father in the loop at all times—even divulging information about what jurors munched on during breaks.

» Oct. 10, 19′: Your Content obtains thousands of exclusive e-mails from the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office. Among the exclusive e-mail revelations:

» ‘First Order of Business, Lock Up That Creep Bill Cosby.’

» ‘Old Man’ Cosby’ Would Die If Jailed, Prosecutors Joked

» DA Mocked #MeToo Before, During & After Trial

» In 2015, DA Steele Claimed There Was An ‘Air-Tight’ Case Against Bill Cosby, Turns Out There Wasn’t

» Jun. 23, 20′: Bill Cosby is granted the opportunity to go before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a first-ever virtual hearing.

» Aug. 26, 20′: Your Content makes a groundbreaking discovery that indicates the presiding judge assigned himself to the Cosby trial.

But we are not done. If the court has proven to be just, it has also reinforced how few voices in American media can be trusted to listen to you.

This exceptional moment serves as a call to action for Your Content. We refuse to fall in line with the out-of-touch media establishment—and we will not accept the ‘official’ version of events as told by news agencies that side with power and ignore the untold stories.

Your Content will continue to deliver the truth, and not the spin of politicians or those who failed you.

As the world of professional story-tellers spend the next several months trying to explain their embarrassment, while the lamestream media is held to the fire, we proudly declare: Your Content is the people’s paper, and the only publication that power fears.

Cosby, 83, has spent the past two years in a prison outside of Philadelphia after a jury convicted him in 2018 of three aggravated indecent assault counts—and the court deemed the elderly inmate a ‘sexually violent predator’ for posing an ‘imminent safety risk to women.’

As Your Content readers know, Judge Steven O’Neill assigned himself the privilege of presiding over the Cosby trial.