“Had seven commissioners been present for Mr. Creech’s (clemency) hearing, as was supposed to be the case, then he would have had the chance to persuade one more person to vote for life,” the federal lawsuit read.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) – A second federal lawsuit has been filed centered around a former Washington County, Virginia deputy who allegedly “catfished” a California teenager online before traveling across the county to kidnap her and kill three of her family members. The lawsuit was filed by the teenage victim and her foster mother Friday […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A federal civil lawsuit has been filed against the “Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention,” and it mentions the senior pastor of the well-known Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova. The lawsuit makes disturbing allegations centered around the cover-up of sexual abuse within the church. It comes after six people claimed they […]
A reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper that police raided last year filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against its hometown and local officials, saying the raid caused her physical and mental health problems. Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn is seeking $950,000 in damages from the city of Marion, its former mayor, its former police chief, its current interim police chief, the Marion County Commission, the county sheriff and a former sheriff's deputy. The lawsuit calls them “co-conspirators” who deprived her of press and speech freedoms and the protection from unreasonable police searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.