US Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered prosecutors Friday to seek the toughest possible charges against criminal suspects, in a move widely seen as reversing the Obama administration’s policy to ease punishments for drug offenses. In a two-page memo, Sessions told Justice Department attorneys around the country that, when prosecuting a case, they should apply the … Read more
British banker Rurik Jutting has been found guilty of murdering two Indonesian women in Hong Kong, in a case that has gripped the city. A jury took around four hours to find an expressionless Jutting, who denied murder by admitted manslaughter, guilty on both counts. The mutilated bodies of Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih were … Read more
Signatures on a petition to impeach a Montana judge who handed down a 60-day sentence for a man who admitted to raping his 12-year-old daughter approached 80,000 on Friday in the latest case of citizens targeting judges for doling out what they believe are light sentences for sexual crimes. District Judge John McKeon sentenced the … Read more
A student at a top US university whose six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 was widely criticised for being too lenient has been released from prison. Brock Turner, 21, who was a swimming champion, assaulted the woman outside a Stanford University fraternity house. He was freed from the Santa Clara … Read more