Dr. Kevin Horn, the Maricopa County Medical Examiner officer, who was among the first witnesses to testify for the prosecution of the Jodi Arias, is expected to stand trial before the closing arguments of the trial are made next week.
Jamie Hawn, a Democratic political strategist, died early Wednesday when Raleign police said that Jonathan Broyhill, a best man at her wedding in 2009, stabbed her and her husband Nation at their home. Broyhill has been charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Raleigh police said Wednesday they expect to upgrade Broyhill's charges to murder.
Sandra Avila Beltran, a Mexican woman known as the "drug cartel queen" has pleaded guilty in Miami to charges arising from a major cocaine trafficking case. Beltran pleaded guilty Tuesday to being an accessory after the fact in an organization that included Juan Diego Espinosa Ramirez, a former liaison between Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and Colombia's Norte Valle cartel.
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his constitutional rights sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating, according to a U.S. law enforcement source and four officials of both political parties briefed on the interrogation.
