Tag: Criminal Justice

For more than four decades, one name has divided America, inspired activists and kept Philadelphia at the center of one of the nation's most polarizing criminal cases: Mumia Abu-Jamal. To supporters, the former journalist and Black Panther is a political prisoner whose unjust conviction is a clear example of racial bias, prosecutorial misconduct and the failures of the criminal justice system. To others, including the family of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner and many in law enforcement, he is a convicted cop killer whose conviction has withstood decades of appeals. The debate has never truly ended. Now, Abu-Jamal's legal team has taken his fight beyond U.S. courts, petitioning the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to weigh in on his incarceration.

The case against D4vd involved far more grand jury testimony than previously known, with three panels meeting on seven separate occasions before the singer was arrested in April.

Rapper Boosie Badazz paid a Washington lobbying firm six hundred thousand dollars to secure a federal pardon from President Trump after facing serious firearm charges. However, he was sentenced to supervised release and community service instead, avoiding prison time. Now Boosie is seeking arbitration to recover at least half the money, claiming the firm failed to deliver the promised pardon by the January deadline specified in their contract.

The rapper reacted on X after a Collin County jury found Anthony guilty and sentenced him in the 2025 killing, writing, "Wow! Just freakin wow! DISGUSTING… This is not justice, this is trying to make an example!!!"

Sean Kingston and his mother have voluntarily dismissed their appeal of their federal fraud conviction. Kingston and his mother were convicted in April 2025 on wire fraud charges related to a scheme targeting luxury merchandise vendors using fake wire receipts.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is currently serving his prison sentence at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey after his arrest in 2024, facing a 50-month prison sentence while appealing his case.