BEEVILLE – Trinidad Guzman, a New Mexico man and registered sex offender, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Aug. 17 after pleading guilty to grooming three Bee County girls and exposing himself to them over FaceTime.
Incarcerated Mainers are pushing back against a longstanding loophole in the Department of Corrections disciplinary policy that allows staff to issue punishments before and regardless of a finding of guilt. “It flat out just denies incarcerated people their due process rights,” said Foster Bates, president of the Maine State Prison branch of the NAACP. Language […]
A Gallatin County judge opted not to follow a plea deal calling for probation in the case of a 57-year-old man who pleaded guilty in June to witness tampering — a case in which the defendant was originally accused of assaulting his wife, Catherine Sorensen, in 2022. Sorensen taught music at St. Mary's Catholic School in Livingston before her death in 2023 at age 55.
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen criticized Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell’s handling of the Christopher Wardle domestic violence case and requested a report and case list, while Cromwell responded that ethical rules limit what she can say about the still-pending prosecution and defended her office’s domestic violence and strangulation work.
(The Center Square) – A Minnesota woman has pleaded guilty to threatening Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth after leaving a series of violent voicemails earlier this year.
