Category Archive for : ‘COURT SYSTEM’

January 27, 2020
My Fox 8

HIGH POINT, N.C. — A man accused of violent sex offenses in High Point was released from custody at about 10 a.m. Monday, according to North Carolina Statewide Automated Victim Assistance and Notification.
Police charged 33-year-old Michael Dean Myers with kidnapping, rape and other crimes in 2018. Since then he has been held under a $5.5 million at the High Point Detention Center.
Court documents show he attacked four women and one child in High Point
Assistant District Attorney Lori Wickline told FOX8 that Judge Todd Burke unsecured Myers’

January 28, 2020
Phaedra Haywood
Santa Fe New Mexican

Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday in the trial of an ex-priest accused of raping a first grader at a parochial school in Santa Fe County in the late 1980s.
Marvin Archuleta’s criminal trial is the first to come out of state Attorney General Hector Balderas’ ongoing investigation into claims of child sex abuse in Roman Catholic churches throughout New Mexico.
The state intends to bring Thomas P. Doyle of Virginia, a national expert on clergy sex abuse, to testify in the case, according to

November 21, 2019
Gus Garcia-Roberts
USA Today

In 1995, Leonard Forte was due in a Vermont courtroom to face charges that he’d repeatedly raped and molested his daughter’s 12-year-old friend.
Instead, he started dying.
Forte, then a 54-year-old former detective with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in New York, told the Vermont court his heart had failed and that he was on a transplant list. He said his doctors had given him a grim diagnosis: Without a new heart, he’d be dead within a year.
A Vermont prosecutor agreed to delay the case until Forte

November 11, 2019
Nicole Darrah
Fox News

A fill-in Louisiana judge last week reportedly offered a convicted rapist the possibility of a reduced sentence — if his victim agreed to a $150,000 payout.

State District Judge Bruce Bennett gave 44-year-old Sedrick Hills the option — if the victim consented — to pay up to get out early. Speaking at Hills’ Thursday sentencing hearing, Bennett described the rape as reprehensible and ordered him to serve 12 years in prison, reportedly making the strange monetary offer afterward.

“This will not be considered to be an extortionary offer,”

Sex Offenders and Others In Positions of Trust: Doctors, Shame On You: Court System/Justice System, Date Rape Drug, Unbelievable

December 3, 2018

LowellSun.com

WORCESTER — A Gardner podiatrist faces charges for allegedly writing a Florida man fraudulent prescriptions with no legitimate medical reason for a known date-rape drug, authorities said Monday.

The podiatrist, 64-year-old Richard E. Genovese of Rindge, New Hampshire, was arraigned in Worcester Superior Court on Friday, where he pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of unlawfully prescribing a class A drug and one count of conspiracy to violate the Controlled

A plea deal could mean a doctor at the heart of a sexual abuse scandal involving more than 100girls and women, including top American gymnasts, won’t face federal criminal charges inthose cases.

Dr. Larry Nassar, a former team doctor for USA Gymnastics, signed the agreement June 23.He’s scheduled to change his plea from not guilty to guilty on Tuesday morning in a GrandRapids, Mich., federal court.

According to the agreement, Nassar will plead guilty to three counts relating to childpornography. The document states that between 2003 and 2016, Nassar knowingly possessed thousandsof