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An old gang rival took the stand, looked across the courtroom, and decided thirty years of silence was not ending with him.
Former Mob Piru member James McDonald, better known as Mob James, gave jurors one of the most combustible moments yet in Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis’ murder trial when he repeatedly refused to identify anyone involved in Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing. McDonald made clear he was only testifying because ignoring the subpoena could land him in contempt.
Pressed by defense attorney Michael Sanft on whether he saw who fired the fatal shots, McDonald pushed back hard. ‘I don’t want to send him to prison even though we don’t like each other,’ he said. At another point, he told the lawyer, ‘You’re asking me something that’s gonna hurt this dude,’ before declaring, ‘I’m not answering nothing.’
McDonald was much more candid about the violent code he lived by during the Death Row era. Asked about an old rumor that Tupac once knocked him out, he denied it and said that if it had happened, ‘I’d have killed him.’ He explained that humiliation in that world demanded retaliation, even if the consequences were fatal.
Davis, 63, is accused of orchestrating the shooting after Tupac, Suge Knight, and others attacked his nephew Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand. Davis denies ordering the killing. McDonald may know who was there and who was not, but the courtroom learned something else Tuesday. Thirty years later, the old street rules still have jurisdiction in some men’s heads.
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Las Vegas built itself on men keeping secrets. Mob James walked into court with thirty years of them and made sure nobody got the combination.
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A former Disney Channel child star says the adults saw what was happening and did nothing.
Raquel Lee Boileau has filed a negligence lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company alleging she was repeatedly sexually abused by an adult employee while filming the 2001 Disney Channel movie The Proof Point in Utah. Boileau was 14 at the time and says the abuse was apparent to adults working on the production.
The complaint identifies the alleged abuser only as ‘John Doe’ and accuses Disney of failing to protect Boileau despite warning signs. Her attorneys argue the case reflects a broader entertainment industry culture in which young performers were exposed to powerful adults without meaningful safeguards, supervision, or intervention.
Boileau, who later appeared in Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, is seeking unspecified damages and a jury trial. Disney has faced other lawsuits over alleged misconduct linked to productions and subsidiaries, but these allegations go directly to one of the industry’s ugliest questions. When a child is working on a set, who is actually watching the adults?
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Hollywood loves a child star until the kid starts remembering what happened off camera. Then the studio lights dim and everybody suddenly forgets where they were standing.
A neighbor says she saw Panettiere taken away on a gurney twice, with bruises and red marks visible.
Mia Terrazas, a former neighbor of Hayden Panettiere, claims she twice saw the actress removed from her Los Angeles apartment by emergency responders during her relationship with Brian Hickerson. Terrazas told Page Six that Panettiere appeared to have ‘bright red spots’ and bruising and said it looked to her as though the actress had been beaten.
Terrazas said the incidents happened in July 2023 and January 2024, and claimed she frequently heard muffled arguments from the apartment. She also said she saw Hickerson around the property while a protection order connected to an earlier domestic violence case was still active and reported his presence to authorities several times.
Panettiere’s mother, Lesley Vogel, has separately raised concerns about Hickerson’s role in her daughter’s life, alleging he pawned some of Panettiere’s belongings and remained deeply involved as an assistant. Police and the DEA are now investigating Panettiere’s death, while the accounts surrounding her final years continue to grow darker.
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Neighbors hear things through walls that families spend years trying not to say out loud. By the time the sirens arrive, the building usually knows the story already.
The jury heard a psychologist argue that the voices Clancy says drove her to kill appeared at a remarkably convenient time.
A prosecution forensic psychologist dealt a major blow to Lindsay Clancy’s insanity defense Monday, telling jurors that the killings of her three young children appeared more consistent with a planned murder-suicide than a sudden psychotic break. Clancy does not deny strangling Cora, Dawson, and Callan with exercise bands before jumping from a second-story window.
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun questioned Clancy’s claim that she experienced a commanding voice during the killings, noting she had never heard such a voice before and has not reported hearing it since. ‘She only experienced it for the 18 minutes that it took to kill her children,’ he testified, calling that pattern ‘very unusual.’
The testimony then veered into forbidden territory when Heilbrun referenced Clancy’s Catholic upbringing and suicide as a ‘mortal sin.’ Defense attorney Kevin Reddington demanded a mistrial, accusing prosecutors of misconduct. The judge rejected the request but ordered jurors to disregard the religious testimony. Closing arguments are expected this week, with the central question unchanged. Was Clancy legally insane, or did she know exactly what she was doing?
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Insanity cases live in the fog between sickness and intent. The prosecution spent Monday trying to convince the jury there was a map under the mist.
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Scotland Yard wants the unredacted evidence. Washington has not handed it over.
The Metropolitan Police investigation into Lord Peter Mandelson is reportedly in danger of collapsing because British detectives have been unable to obtain unredacted Jeffrey Epstein material from U.S. authorities. Mandelson is being investigated over allegations of misconduct in public office involving claims he passed confidential information to Epstein during the 2008 financial crisis.
Detectives initially sought the records through informal cooperation with the Justice Department and FBI but reportedly received no acknowledgement. The request has now been escalated through the formal mutual legal assistance process, which can move painfully slowly and could leave investigators without crucial documentary evidence for years.
Mandelson’s lawyers could argue that partially redacted emails do not provide enough context for a fair prosecution, while misconduct in public office already carries a notoriously high evidentiary bar. The DOJ insists it has not refused British assistance and says established legal procedures must be followed. Mandelson denies wrongdoing and has said he regrets his friendship with Epstein.
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The Atlantic is wide, but apparently not wide enough for an evidence file to cross it. Cases die quietly when the paperwork never reaches the detective’s desk.
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