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Settlement details were not revealed in the agreement that put an end to a highly anticipated trial before it began Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have settled their legal dispute from the acrimonious production of their 2024 film It Ends With Us, just weeks before a highly anticipated scheduled trial. In a joint statement on Monday, legal repres…

Cole Allen was isolated from other inmates, denied a Bible and placed on suicide watch despite showing no suicidal tendencies Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A US judge on Monday apologized to the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump for the “legally deficient” treatment he has faced in a Washington DC, jail, including being placed on suicide watch, separated fr…

As AI-generated CSAM blurs the line between real and fabricated evidence, investigators need the right tools, legal awareness and forensic expertise to identify victims, prioritise leads and pursue justice responsibly.

Company accepts it failed to prevent bribery in public sector contracts in Algeria and Oman, sought through use of agents The British defence company Ultra Electronics has accepted responsibility for failure to prevent bribery and agreed to pay £15m after an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office . The penalties are part of a deferred prosecution approved by the high court on Friday, after an …

Claire Freemantle accused of causing death and serious injury by dangerous driving when 4x4 hit school in 2023 The driver of a 4×4 that crashed into a south-east London primary school has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving after two eight-year-old girls were killed. Claire Freemantle, 49, is accused of two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and seven counts of causing …

Court heard woman asked fashion boss to stop but he did not even when she started crying James Holder, a co-founder of the clothing firm Superdry, has been found guilty of raping a woman after a night out in the Gloucestershire town of Cheltenham. Gloucester crown court heard Holder, 54, had been due to get a taxi back to his mansion in the Cotswolds with a male friend. Instead, the pair got into…

The Hollywood star is being sued by the 27-year-old lead actor of her directorial debut, The Deb. A producer who thought a rising star was “fudging” her story and walking back a complaint of sexual harassment to Rebel Wilson will be in the spotlight during the final hours of a fiery court battle. Wilson is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the 27-year-old lead actor of the musical comedy The Deb.…

Students in the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute are gaining career-defining experience by tackling real-world crime scene challenges through hands-on research. The post Training the Next Generation of Investigators: Inside the Practical Crime Scene Research Course appeared first on Syracuse University Today .

Magnet User Summit 2026 celebrates standout agencies, prosecutors, and rising digital investigators whose leadership, innovation, and commitment to justice are shaping the future of digital forensics.

Detego Global’s Ballistic Imager has been recognised at the UK Security & Policing Innovation Awards, underscoring the growing importance of ultra-fast, forensically sound digital evidence acquisition in modern investigations.

James Lawhead was arrested after forensic DNA analysis lead in decades-old killing of Cindy Wanner Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A 64-year-old man was arrested last week in connection to a decades-old murder investigation that had long haunted the affluent suburb of Sacramento where it occurred. On 25 November 1991, Cindy Wanner, 35, vanished from h…

Five VPA illustration majors share what it was like to sketch live legal proceedings for the first time at Dineen Hall. The post Students Serve as Courtroom Sketch Artists for US Air Force Trial at Law School appeared first on Syracuse University Today .

Nathan Chasing Horse, best known for 'Dances With Wolves,' gets life in prison a month after he was convicted of sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls.

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war.

Apple Fixes the iOS Bug That Cops Used to Extract Deleted Chat Messages From iPhones For years, a quiet vulnerability sat buried inside iOS — one that most users never knew existed, but that law enforcement agencies around the world quietly relied upon. Apple has now patched the bug, closing a forensic backdoor that allowed investigators (and, theoretically, any attacker with physical device acce…

Apple Fixes the iPhone Bug That Cops Used to Extract Your Deleted Messages If you've ever deleted a sensitive message and assumed it was gone forever — think again. For years, a quiet vulnerability in iOS allowed forensic tools used by law enforcement to recover deleted iMessages, WhatsApp chats, and other communications from iPhones. Apple has now fixed that bug, but the story behind it reveals …

Annalouise Spence allegedly used credit card to make ‘unauthorised purchases of luxury and personal items, including clothing, artwork and jewellery’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The former private secretary of billionaire philanthropist Judith Neilson has been charged with dozens of counts of fraud after she a…

Bhavya Tripathi, ICFAI University, Dehradun Dr. Monika Kothiyal, ICFAI University, Dehradun ABSTRACT Section 447 of the Companies Act, 2013 represents the most ambitious attempt in the history of Indian corporate legislation to define fraud comprehensively and to attach serious criminal consequences to it. The provision departs markedly from the piecemeal offence-specific approach of its predeces…

Weinstein switched legal teams for this retrial, but his new attorneys are echoing their predecessors’ themes Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Prosecutors once again portrayed Harvey Weinstein as a one-time Hollywood power player who used his sway as a tool of sexual assault, painting a now-familiar picture on Tuesday at a rape retrial nearly eight yea…

Associate Professor Beidi Dong from the Department of Criminology, Law and Society was quoted in The Good Men Project about automatic weapons detection in schools.