Meghann Cuniff
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A jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, today convicted a 63-year-old former gang leader of murder for his role in the fatal shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years ago. Jurors deliberated about 90 minutes before finding Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of a single count of murder.
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A jury in Columbia, South Carolina, tonight acquitted a former gas station owner of murder for fatally shooting a teenage boy he chased after falsely accusing him of shoplifting. The boy had a gun, but prosecutors say he never displayed it before he was shot.
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A judge today sentenced a Utah woman to life in prison without parole for murdering her husband by slipping fentanyl into a cocktail she made for him. Judge Richard Mrazik said a person convicted of Kouri Richins' crimes "is simply too dangerous to ever be free."
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Retired Major League Baseball player Scott Erickson testified today that he was a substantial factor in the deaths of two young brothers hit and killed by his girlfriend in a crosswalk in Westlake Village, California, in 2020. Erickson returned to the witness stand today as the jury that found him liable on Wednesday for $176 million for the deaths of the Iskander boys considers possible punitive damages. Erickson’s ex-girlfriend Rebecca Grossman is serving 15 years to life in prison for hitting and killing Mark, 11, and Jacob, 8, on Sept. 29, 2020. Erickson faced a far different criminal case: Prosecutors dismissed a misdemeanor reckless driving charge against Erickson, who witnesses said was racing Grossman in his own Mercedes-Benz AMG. But under the jury verdict in the civil case, both he and Grossman are 100% liable for the $176 million. The Iskanders’ lawyer Brian Panish asked Erickson this morning (Friday, June 5) if “you have remorse for what you did and what happened in this case, isn't that true?” “Yes, I do,” Erickson answered. “And you admit that you're responsible for causing the death of two young boys in this case, correct?” Panish asked. “Yes, I respect that,” Erickson answered. “No, I didn't ask you whether you respected. Do you admit to this jury that you were part of, and a substantial factor of causing the deaths of Mark and Jacob Iskander? Yes or no?” Panish asked. “Yes,” Erickson answered. “And since September 29 until today, which is June 5, 2026, you have lied and deceived and attempted to deny complete responsibility for the death of those boys, haven't you, sir?” Panish asked. Judge Huey Cotton overruled an relevance objection and Erickon answered, “I have made mistakes. Yes.” “That wasn't my question, sir,” Panish said and asked the court reporter to read his question aloud. “Question: And since September 29 until today, which is June 5, 2026 you have lied and deceived, and attempted to deny complete responsibility for the death of those boys. Haven't you, sir?” the reporter said. The judge overruled a defense objection and Erickson answered, “Yes, I am.”
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A courtroom debate: What to call Rihanna in relation to A$AP Rocky. Are they actually married?? "It's his common-law wife, Your Honor." "If they're not legally married, we prefer that she not be referred to as his wife." "Are they legally married anywhere?" "I don't know."
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Victory for Afroman over the sheriff's deputies who sued him for defamation and invasion of privacy through false light. "In all circumstances, the jury finds in favor of the defendant. No plaintiff verdict prevailed. So the matter will be concluded with defense verdicts."
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The Young Thug / YSL trial opened today with Rich Gang's "Lifestyle" playing as the camera panned to the six defendants. (It's part of a video Thug's lawyer wants to play in his cross of Tick today, but the judge doesn't think it should come in through another witness.)
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A retired MLB player testified today he had his cousin contact police so he could report his friend's involvement in a fatal crash. Royce Clayton said his cousin told him, "You're not snitching on anybody. When it comes to kids, this is something that's going to come out."
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A retired deputy suing Afroman for defamation testified he doesn’t know why the rapper nicknamed him “Officer Pound Cake,” so Afroman’s lawyer played the “Lemon Pound Cake” video. “You would admit that’s you with the glasses walking by the lemon pound cake on the counter?”
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Cardi B is back on the witness stand in her civil assault trial, wearing a different wig, and Ron Rosen is back at the lectern. "I want you to tell it to her face what you said on that day so she can hear it for herself." "Your Honor, do we have civility?" Cardi's lawyer asks.
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An old South Side Crips gang member testified today that his gang was aligned with Sean “Puffy” Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment when it was warring with a Bloods sect associated with Death Row Records. Devonta “Dirt Rock” Lee was involved in the assault with the Mob Piru gang in the Lakewood Mall in California weeks before Tupac Shakur was shot in Las Vegas on Sept. 7, 1996. Tupac and Death Row Records were aligned with Mob Piru and Davis and his nephew, alleged triggerman Orlando Anderson, were aligned with the South Side Crips, and prosecutors say the fight was the catalyst for Shakur’s shooting because it led to Shakur attacking Anderson inside the MGM Grand casino. A retired Los Angeles police detective testified on Wednesday that Davis told investigators Combs was to pay money for Shakur’s murder, but he never got it. Binu Palal, a deputy district attorney in Clark County, Nevada, asked Lee today (Thursday, August 20, day 4) if his understanding of his gang’s role with Combs’ label “was to ensure that Bad Boy was not bothered by other gangs?” “That was the basis of it, I believe. Yeah, I will say that,” Lee answered. “And was was there a particular gang that people in Bad Boy were worried about?” Palal asked. “Yeah, they was worried about Death Row,” Lee answered.
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The lead prosecutor in the murder case against Duane "Keffe D" Davis told a jury this morning that Davis was associated with Sean "Puffy" Combs when he took part in Tupac Shakur's 1996 fatal shooting in Las Vegas. "One of the connections that Duane Davis gets through his association with Zip Martin is with Sean "Puffy" Combs, who was then the CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment," Marc DiGiacomo, the chief deputy district attorney in Clark County, Nevada, said in his opening statement. "Sean Combs wanted some security when he came out to the West Coast. He was worried about Mob Piru. He was worried about the members of Death Row Records, and so Duane 'Keffe D' Davis agreed to be around to act as unofficial security for Sean Combs and his artists when they came out west, specifically to ensure there are no problems with Mob Piru and Death Row Records," DiGiacomo said. He said the rivalry between Mob Piru and Southside Compton Crips "boiled over in the Lakewood Mall in the summer of 1996" near Los Angeles. Trevon Lane, a Mob Piru member associated with Death Row "was there with other members of Mob Piru in order to do some shopping. Lakewood Mall was a mall nearby Compton." "You'll also hear that Baby Lane Anderson, Orlando Anderson, the defendant's nephew, was there. Now Trevon Lane that day was wearing a chain with a Death Row medallion, and there was a fight that occurs between the Mob Piru and the Southside Compton Crips. And at one point, that chain is pulled off Trevon Lane's neck. Now, what happens to that chain is an issue of much dispute. Not everybody agrees with it, but the act of disrespect of pulling the Death Row chain and the brawl that occurs further escalates this heated rivalry," DiGiacomo said. "And what you'll learn is that these two men, Trevon Lane and Orlando Baby Lane Anderson, they encounter each other again. This time in Las Vegas." Combs has never been charged in association with Tupac's murder. He's currently in federal prison after a jury in July 2025 convicted him of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of him of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. He was sentenced to 50 months in prison.
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David Finke, a gynecologist who saw the aftermath of the confrontation between Cardi B and a security guard in 2018, testified as a defense witness, so in cross plaintiff's attorney Rob Rosen basically accused him of shilling for celebrities. I don't think it landed.
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Duane "Keefe D" Davis told police in 2008 about his involvement in Tupac Shakur's shooting and said Sean "Puffy" Combs offered to pay for the murders of Shakur and Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight, according to testimony from a retired Los Angeles police detective. Daryn Dupree was part of the task force that investigated the March 9, 1997, fatal shooting of Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G" Wallace in Los Angeles after Wallace's mother alleged in a lawsuit that law enforcement agencies were involved in her son's murder. He testified on Wednesday (August 19, day 3) that Davis said Combs "was supposed to have given money to Zip Martin to give to Mr. Davis for payment of the Tupac murder." Davis told detectives "he can rekindle that relationship with Mr. Zip Martin and give him to talk about the money that was given from Sean "Puffy" Combs to Mr. Martin that never got to Mr. Davis," Dupree said. Davis and investigators flew to New York "so Mr. Davis can work undercover to try to rekindle that friendship and business relationship with Zip." Davis tried to meet with Martin at a club, but Martin "passed him off to his nephew to do business with him." "Zip had had cancer or something like that. He was sickly. He said he wasn't in the business no more, something like that. So it didn't work," Dupree said. "At some point, does the LAPD establish whether or not LAPD officers were involved in the murder of Mr. Wallace?" asked Marc DiGiacomo, the chief deputy district attorney in Clark County, Nevada. "We found out that there was not any police officer involved," Dupree answered.
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