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Henry Nowak Murder: Court of Appeal Raises Digwa’s Minimum Term
England and Wales’s Court of Appeal increased Vickrum Digwa’s life-sentence minimum term. Here is what that changes and why it is not a release date.
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Trial reporting, verdicts, sentencing, appeals, and what court decisions actually establish.
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Silk Road in Court: Ross Ulbricht’s Conviction, Sentence and Pardon
The federal trial, the 2015 sentence and the 2025 presidential pardon are three distinct entries in the Silk Road record.
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Elizabeth Smart’s Abduction: The Federal Verdict and Sentence
The federal sentencing record identifies the charges Brian David Mitchell was convicted of and the punishment imposed in 2011.
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Daniel Sikkema Gets Life in Brent Sikkema Murder-for-Hire Case
A federal judge imposed life in prison on November 4. The U.S. verdict and the pending Brazilian case are separate proceedings.
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Alex Murdaugh’s Federal Fraud Case: The Settlement Checks and the Sentence
The federal plea covered 22 financial offenses involving personal injury clients. The 2024 sentence belongs to that separate case.
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Ireland’s Stardust Inquests: The Verdicts and the State Apology
The deaths of 48 people in a 1981 Dublin fire led to new inquests and a formal state apology in April 2024.
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Enron After the Verdict: Why Jeffrey Skilling Was Resentenced
The federal case page shows how a revised sentence and forfeiture order changed the outcome years after the Enron trial.
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The Madoff Victim Fund: How Forfeited Money Reached Claimants
The DOJ’s final distribution announcement shows how forfeiture recovered money and how to interpret the fund’s recovery figures.
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Theranos in Court: Why Elizabeth Holmes’s Verdict Was Split
The federal jury convicted Holmes on four investor-related counts and acquitted her on four patient-related counts. The count-by-count record shows how the verdict was reached.
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Stephen Lawrence: The Inquiry and the Verdicts That Came Years Later
The Macpherson inquiry documented failures in the investigation. Two murder convictions followed in 2012, after years of campaigning by Stephen’s family.
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Post Office Horizon: Why the Court Quashed 39 Convictions
The 2021 Hamilton judgment shows what happens when an accounting discrepancy is treated as proof of a loss and the defense cannot test the system that produced it.