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Sacred Heart Academy volleyball coach accused of rape has died by suicide

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Mar 22, 2024, 10:50amUpdated 2d ago A high school varsity volleyball coach who was facing charges after being accused of raping a teenager while working at Sacred Heart Academy died by suicide. Attorney John Carman confirmed Saturday afternoon that his client, defendant Jason Maser, died Friday night. The MTA told News 12 that he stepped in front of a train in Syosset at 10:35 pm Police say 22-year-old Maser, of Syosset, is accused of raping a 15-year-old multiple times during his employment at the school. He was arrested on Thursday. News 12’s Krista McNally’s Friday evening report on the Sacred…
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Former US Attorney Rachael Rollins has law license suspended

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Former Massachusetts US Attorney and Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has had her law license suspended for nonpayment of registration fees. The Board of Bar Overseers recommended license suspensions for Rollins and dozens of other attorneys for nonpayment of fees. The state Supreme Judicial Court approved the suspensions. Rollins resigned as the state’s top federal prosecutor last year after two federal ethics investigations. The investigators found that Rollins tried to influence the campaign for Suffolk County District Attorney in favor of Ricardo Arroyo who lost the race to Kevin Hayden. The US Office of Special Counsel called Rollins’ actions…
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Attorney says Mississippi man’s drowning on Miami River ‘completely preventable’

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MIAMI – The family of a visitor who fell off a boat near the Brickell Avenue Bridge on St. St. Patrick’s Day and drowned in the Miami River has hired a law firm, which held a news conference Tuesday about what its lawyers call a “completely preventable” death. Trevonte C. Johnson, 23, of Coila, Mississippi, was with five other friends visiting South Florida on March 17 when he fell off a chartered boat and drowned, officials said; Miami Fire Rescue personnel recovered his body from the bottom of the river but were unable to save him. His family has since…
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Race for Chicago-area prosecutor seat features tough-on-crime judge, attorney with Democratic backing

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CHICAGO (AP) — An open seat to lead the nation’s second-largest prosecutor’s office has become one of the most spirited races in the Illinois primary with a Democratic matchup between a tough-on-crime judge and an attorney with union and establishment backing. The Cook County state’s attorney primary features Eileen O’Neill Burke, a former appellate judge with a large campaign war chest, versus Clayton Harris III, a professor and former prosecutor who’s held government posts. The race is the latest example of how the legacy of progressive Democrats who swept into big city prosecutor’s offices over the past decade has fractured.…
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