Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor, was convicted of first-degree in three counts of murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three babies and one adult patient at his inner-city clinic. His sentence is not yet decided, as jurors will reconvene on May 21 to consider whether he should be executed. Gosnell was acquitted of one count of first-degree murder in a fourth abortion.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in which AP President a CEO Gary Pruitt called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The family of Derek Boogaard, a former NHL player, who died of an accidental overdose of pain medication and alcohol, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the league, blaming it for brain damage he suffered as a routine fighter on the ice and for an addiction to painkillers.
O.J. Simpson, equipped with a new set of lawyers, was in a courtroom on Monday, in hopes of reducing his current 33-year sentence. Simpson reportedly is seeking to convince a judge that his former attorney Yale Galanter should not have been the one to represent him in his armed robbery-kidnapping case that sentenced him to 33 years in prison.
