UT Man may Face Death Penalty in Toddler's Death: Utah prosecutors have until Friday to decide whether to seek the death penalty against a man who beat his girlfriend's two-year-old son to death last year over potty training issues. Jessica Miller of the Salt Lake Tribune reports that Joshua Schoenenberger, 35, is facing charges of first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony child abuse in the May 2015 death of James "J.J." Sieger Jr., who died of fatal blows to his stomach after Schoenenberger picked him up, squeezed him hard and dropped him. Schoenenberger told police that he was upset with J.J. for not listening to him and struggling with potty training. J.J.'s mother, Jasmine Bridgeman, 24, was charged with second-degree felony obstruction of justice for lying to police about her son's death. She pleaded guilty last month and sentence to one to 15 years in prison. Update: Prosecutors opt not to seek death penalty against Schoenenberger.
SC Church Shooter's Trials Set: The federal death penalty trial has been set for later this year against the South Carolina man who fatally shot nine people at a Charleston church last June, and the state trial is scheduled to commence early next year. Bruce Smith of the AP reports that Dylann Roof, 22, will be tried in federal court beginning November 7 on several counts, including hate crimes, for gunning down nine black parishioners who were attending a Bible study at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The federal trial will be followed by a trial at the state level, set for January 2017, where he is charged with nine counts of murder and also facing the death penalty.
Illegals Kidnapping Children to Appear as 'Family Units,' Say Feds: A deputy assistant attorney general told a federal appeals court Tuesday that illegal immigrants are kidnapping children and bringing them across the border in order to appear as family units and take advantage of lax enforcement policies. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that last year, federal Judge Dolly M. Gee ruled that all illegal immigrant children must be quickly processed and released from detention, along with their parents, which has enticed people to kidnap children, says Leon Fresco, the deputy assistant attorney general. Gee's order has also led to a new spike in illegal immigration, with FY 2016 steadily heading toward setting a record for family units apprehended at the southern border. In the next few weeks the Supreme Court will rule on the legality of the Obama administration's overall amnesty program.
SC Church Shooter's Trials Set: The federal death penalty trial has been set for later this year against the South Carolina man who fatally shot nine people at a Charleston church last June, and the state trial is scheduled to commence early next year. Bruce Smith of the AP reports that Dylann Roof, 22, will be tried in federal court beginning November 7 on several counts, including hate crimes, for gunning down nine black parishioners who were attending a Bible study at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The federal trial will be followed by a trial at the state level, set for January 2017, where he is charged with nine counts of murder and also facing the death penalty.
Illegals Kidnapping Children to Appear as 'Family Units,' Say Feds: A deputy assistant attorney general told a federal appeals court Tuesday that illegal immigrants are kidnapping children and bringing them across the border in order to appear as family units and take advantage of lax enforcement policies. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that last year, federal Judge Dolly M. Gee ruled that all illegal immigrant children must be quickly processed and released from detention, along with their parents, which has enticed people to kidnap children, says Leon Fresco, the deputy assistant attorney general. Gee's order has also led to a new spike in illegal immigration, with FY 2016 steadily heading toward setting a record for family units apprehended at the southern border. In the next few weeks the Supreme Court will rule on the legality of the Obama administration's overall amnesty program.
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