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Father accused of killing newborn son acquitted of manslaughter in second trial updated 2 Former Australian soldier, Nicholas Baxter, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter in the two-week judge-only trial. ( Share Print text only Cancel A former Australian soldier accused of killing his newborn son in north Queensland almost a decade ago has been acquitted for a second time, in the Supreme Court in Townsville. Key points: He was convicted of manslaughter, but acquitted, and a retrial was ordered A second, judge-only trial this month also acquitted him of the charge Six-week-old baby Matthew Ri...

Updated on February 19, 2021 at 7:19 pm NBC Universal, Inc. The largest scandal in the Chicago Police Department's history continued to grow Friday, as prosecutors asked a judge to throw out the convictions of nine individuals who said they were framed by a rogue sergeant and the tactical team under his command. "This is an ongoing and active investigation," Cook County Assistant State's Attorney Nancy Adduci told the judge. "However, as to these nine cases before you, the people have lost confidence in some of the evidence that is the foundation of these convictions." Get the answer to your...

Sun-Times file photo Nine more people saw their drug convictions tossed Friday by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office as part of an ongoing review of cases tied to former Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts. For the last several years, prosecutors have been re-investigating cases connected to Watts and Officer Kallatt Mohammed, who were convicted in federal court after they were recorded during a sting operation taking $5,200 from an FBI informant. Both disgraced officers pleaded guilty in 2013; Watts was sentenced to 22 months in federal prison, and Mohammed received 18 months. During...

Prosecutors move to reverse 6 convictions tied to Sgt. Ronald Watts By Sun-Times Media Wire article CHICAGO - The Cook County state’s attorney’s office moved to vacate the wrongful convictions of six people as part of the office’s ongoing review of the misconduct of corrupt former In a virtual court hearing Tuesday, Cook County Judge Leroy K. Martin, Jr., granted the motions to vacate six convictions tied to Watts, the state’s attorney’s office said in a statement. Since 2016, Cook County prosecutors have reversed a total of 100 cases involving former Sergeant Watts, State’s Att...

By DON BABWIN, AP CHICAGO (AP) — A judge on Tuesday threw out the felony drug convictions of six men who were framed by a disgraced former Chicago police sergeant's team, bringing to 100 the number of overturned convictions linked to a years-long scheme to shake down residents of one of the city's poorest communities. The Cook County court hearing marked the latest chapter in a story of corruption that has been breathtaking in its scope in the four years since judges in Chicago started overturning drug cases of Black drug dealers and residents of the Ida B. Wells public hous...