Marcus Dermer’s girlfriend saved his future. Had he not spent the evening with her and her family on Jan. 3, 2016, he might have gone along with Jervarceay Tapley’s plan to “do a lick” or commit a crime on Bentley Drive, just like his friends Rufus Burks and Raheam Gibson. Had he gone with them, […]
On one level, United States v. Microsoft Corp. presents a fairly straightforward matter of statutory interpretation. The statute in question — the Stored Communications Act — is silent about its territorial reach, which raises at least two questions: (1) Is it an extraterritorial application of the statute to issue a U.S. warrant in Washington state for data […]
Marlene Postell Johnson mistakenly sent a text message in July 2013 to a 15-year-old making threats against someone she thought was Shirley Goodnight Pierce.Two days later, Pierce was found dead inside her Kannapolis home. Rowan County investigators have said Johnson killed Pierce, 62, because she believed Pierce was having an affair with her estranged husband. Alex Norton, […]
Terrence “Chill” Booth escaped a second murder conviction Monday when jurors acquitted him of shooting a homeless man in the head while he slept. It’s the third murder trial Norfolk prosecutors have lost in the past two months. Six of the past seven murder cases they’ve taken to trial have ended in acquittal. Prosecutors accused […]
There are new questions being raised about a cell phone seized by a judge in a high-profile murder trial in Montgomery County. The person using the phone may have been taking pictures as a witness for the prosecution was testifying in the case of two Northwest High School students killed on the eve of their graduation. But […]
