The EU Commission informed X that they are in breach of the Digital Services Act. They outlined the so-called X violations. First, X designs and operates its interface for the “verified accounts” with the “Blue checkmark” in a way that does not correspond to industry practice and deceives users. Since anyone can subscribe to obtain such […] The post The EU Commission Is Coming After X appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

The judge in Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial dismissed the case Friday. The judge agreed with the actor’s lawyers that prosecutors hid evidence that may have been linked to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Western movie “Rust” in 2021. “There is no way for the court to right […] The post Alec Baldwin’s Manslaughter Case Was Dismissed appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Santa Fe Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin on Friday after ruling the prosecutors hid evidence from Baldwin’s defense team. The ruling came on the third day of the trial in New Mexico’s First Judicial District Court after Baldwin attorney Luke Nikas accused prosecutors of deliberately withholding bullets that were turned over to investigators earlier this year. Sommer said that the state was “highly culpable for its failure to provide discovery to the defendant” and that dismissal with prejudice was warranted. “The late discovery of this evidence has impacted the fundamental fairness of the proceedings,” she said. “There is no way for the court to right this wrong. The sanction of dismissal is the only warranted remedy.” Baldwin had faced up to 18 months in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a firearm that he was rehearsing with in 2021 on a film set fired a live round that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Sommer put on blue latex gloves, cut open a manilla envelope that contained the bullets, and looked at the previously unexamined evidence. BREAKING: Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the ‘Rust’ moving shooting case with prejudice against #AlecBaldwin. When Baldwin heard her ruling, he started to sob and later hugged his family. Baldwin was facing an involuntary manslaughter charge. pic.twitter.com/v9gfv2xd92 — Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) July 12, 2024 Nikas claimed that prosecutors intentionally “buried” the evidence by putting it “under a different case with a different number.” This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

Former President Donald Trump moved to have his New York felony conviction dismissed Thursday in light of the Supreme Court’s decision that presidents have immunity for official actions.  Lawyers for Trump argued in a motion that New York Judge Juan Merchan should dismiss Trump’s conviction in the hush money case where he was accused of falsifying business records because the prosecution relied on evidence that shouldn’t have been admissible for the jury to consider. The motion comes after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that Trump’s assertion of presidential immunity to shield himself from federal prosecution is valid for official acts.  “No President of the United States has ever been treated as unfairly and unlawfully as District Attorney Bragg has acted towards President Trump in connection with the biased investigation, extraordinarily delayed charging decision, and baseless prosecution that give rise to this motion,” the filing said.  The lawyers added that the motion to vacate the jury’s verdict was based on the doctrine of presidential immunity set forth by the Supreme Court and the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.  According to the filing, the New York County District Attorney’s Office (DANY) urged the court “to front-run the Supreme Court on a federal constitutional issue with grave implications for the operation of the federal government and the relationships between state and federal officials. The record is clear: DANY was wrong, very wrong.” On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. United States that the former president could not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers and was entitled to presumptive immunity for official acts. Trump’s lawyers pointed to this ruling, saying that the jury was unduly influenced by evidence that should not have been used during the trial.  “Under Trump, DANY violated the Presidential immunity doctrine and the Supremacy Clause by relying on evidence relating to President Trump’s official acts in 2017 and 2018 to unfairly prejudice President Trump in this unprecedented and unfounded prosecution relating to purported business records,” the filing said.  The official-acts evidence was used to “bolster” testimony from former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who was a key witness for the prosecution, according to the filing.  “Because of the implications for the institution of the Presidency, the use of official-acts evidence was a structural error under the federal Constitution that tainted DANY’s grand jury proceedings as well as the trial. These transgressions resulted in the type of deeply prejudicial error that strikes at the core of the government’s function and cannot be addressed through harmless-error analysis,” the filing said.  Trump faces sentencing for the conviction in September as the court evaluates whether the Supreme Court decision impacts the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg or not.

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The Senate on Thursday rejected President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Manhattan federal trial court. It was the first time a Biden judicial nominee has been rejected in the Democratic-majority Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee, on an 11-10 vote, rejected federal magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Every Republican voted against her, along with one Democrat, Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia. If approved, Netburn would have served for life. Netburn was rejected in part because of her decision to allow a male rapist to transfer to a women’s prison because he said he was a woman. Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee excoriated Netburn for placing women in danger that way. “The prisoner dubbed July Justine Shelby—his real name is William McLean—was a serial rapist,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said of the 6-foot-2-inch man. “There’s no other way to say it: His past criminal offenses included child molestation of a 9-year-old boy, rape of a 17-year-old girl, and criminal deviant conduct.” The prisoner was initially put in a men’s lockup, but at 51 years old, he decided he was a woman and argued that failure to put him in prison with women was a violation of his 8th Amendment right to not be subjected to “cruel and inhuman punishments.” Cruz said Netburn put “political ideology over justice and reality,” and allowed McLean to be transferred despite a “lifelong pattern of rape, sexual assault, and obvious sexually predatory instincts.” That was after the U.S. Bureau of Prisons rejected McLean’s requests to be moved out of a male facility. Cruz recounted several stories of men identifying as women harming and raping women in prison. The Texas lawmaker said he asked Netburn if she regretted the transfer, and she responded, “No, I faithfully applied the law to the facts.” Cruz said, “That is not the law, and these are not the facts.” All but Ossoff among the Democrats on the committee supported Netburn. “It is fair to ask whether the judge made a reasonable decision in this case at the time she made the decision,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said according to Courthouse News. “The decision by the district court to support her decision is an indication that it was fair and reasonable.” Ossoff, however, said he couldn’t support Netburn. “I’m passionate about civil rights and human rights in carceral facilities,” Ossoff said in an interview with Courthouse News. “These are tough issues, but that was my judgment in the markup [Thursday].” Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said that Netburn was rightly rejected, but noted that she was still approved by most of the committee’s Democrats, demonstrating the radical nature of that party. “While the committee voted this nominee down, all but one Democrat voted to move forward. I hope the American people are watching what’s going on when it comes to the Democratic agenda,” Graham said. “Female prisoners being housed with biological males is an affront to safety and common sense, and it needs to stop.” The post Judge Nominee Who Allowed Biological Male Into Women’s Prison Rejected By Senate Panel appeared first on The Daily Signal.