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Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: DoNotPay plans to use its AI-based legal advisor to coach a defendant via an earpiece to fight a speeding ticket in an unnamed US courtroom in February 2023 — The AI legal assistant has helped people contest parking tickets, now it's leveling up to the courtroom—and the judge doesn't know. Lauren Leffer / Gizmodo: DoNotPay plans to use its AI-based legal advisor to coach a defendant via an earpiece to fight a speeding ticket in an unnamed US courtroom in February…

Antonio Sledge a.k.a. Mounk Tounk pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to violate the RICO Act and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, becoming the seventh defendant to enter a plea deal in the ongoing YSL criminal case, WSB-TV reports. “Defendant has been a member and/or associate of YSL since 2012...While associated with YSL and to support and express loyalty to YSL, defendant and co-defendant Garlington and Zachary appeared in a video with another person where defendant…

Another plea deal has been reached in the sprawling YSL criminal case.According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Antonio “Obama” Sumlin pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to violate Georgia’s RICO Act, as well as participation in criminal street gang activity and two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime (murder). Prosecutors say co-defendant Cordarius Dorsey had ordered Sumlin to kill a fellow gang member who allegedly disrespected him. Dorsey, a suspected YSL leader, was sentenced to life without parole this…

Courtroom sketch of James Patten, left, and attorney Ira Sorkin at N.J. District Court in Camden, N.J., Oct. 11, 2022Source: Elizabeth WilliamsOne of the men charged in an alleged stock manipulation scheme involving shell companies and a small-town New Jersey deli is making thousands of dollars from another shell company, according to a securities filing. James Patten, was charged with federal crimes last month for allegedly inflating the value of Hometown International, which owned the deli, and E-Waste, which had no…

Hometown Deli, Paulsboro, N.J.Mike Calia | CNBCPeter Coker Sr., one of the defendants in the case of the so-called $100 million New Jersey deli, hired a lawyer who represented "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli, according to a new court filing Tuesday.Coker Sr. hired Marc Agnifilo to represent him in his case against the Securities and Exchange Commission, which sued him and two other men, including his son, for alleged market manipulation.The Department of Justice also criminally charged the men — Coker Sr., Peter Coker Jr. and…

As a veteran actor of nearly 100 films and television shows, Alec Baldwin was no stranger to the strict safety protocols around the handling of firearms on set. While preparing to film an action scene for his low budget western film Rust in New Mexico last October, Baldwin was handed a .45 Colt replica revolver. According to affidavits from law enforcement, the 64-year-old actor was discussing a gunfight sequence with crew members when he unholstered the weapon and raised it in the direction of a camera, where director…

As a veteran actor of nearly 100 films and television shows, Alec Baldwin was no stranger to the strict safety protocols around the handling of firearms on set. While preparing to film an action scene for his low budget western film Rust in New Mexico last October, Baldwin was handed a .45 Colt replica revolver. According to affidavits from law enforcement, the 64-year-old actor was discussing a gunfight sequence with crew members when he unholstered the weapon and raised it in the direction of a camera, where director…