Monthly Archives: August 2013
James “Whitey” Bulger Found Guilty in Federal Court
James “Whitey” Bulger was recently convicted on 31 of 32 counts following his 7-week-long federal jury trial. He will not be sentenced until November 11 of this year. However, based upon the counts he was found guilty of it appears that he will now spend the remainder of his life in prison. He was… Read More »
Ariel Castro Sentence Similar to Paul Michael Merhige
Ariel Castro pleaded guilty to 937 counts in the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. It is not very often that a defendant will plead guilty to such serious crimes so quickly including murder and kidnapping. A murder and kidnapping case can easily spend up to a couple of years in the legal system before… Read More »