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Thomas Markle Sr., 82, was arrested by the FBI on Friday at a senior living facility in Lakeland, Florida, and charged in a complaint filed in Los Angeles with one count of possession of child sexual abuse material. He appeared the same afternoon before a magistrate judge in Tampa, arriving in a wheelchair pushed by a deputy U.S. marshal, entered no plea, and was released on his own recognizance subject to home detention, electronic monitoring and a travel restriction to central Florida and the Los Angeles area. According to the FBI affidavit, agents searched two Los Angeles-area storage units he has rented since the summer of 2008 and seized about 78 items. He denies the allegations and is presumed innocent; arraignment in California is expected in several weeks. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, told People that a letter containing allegations about her father reached the Metropolitan Police in 2018, that it was shared with her with assurances it was being investigated, and that her decision to keep him from her children was “for one reason: to protect them.” The Met has confirmed receiving such a letter and passing it to no other agency. Also: the jury in the Sandra Birchmore case told a Boston judge it is deadlocked. Garret Fisher reports.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Russell Brand, 51, was sentenced Monday at Southwark Crown Court to 10 years and six months for raping a fan at his London home in 2009 and sexually assaulting three women who worked in television and radio between 2004 and 2009. Mr Justice Joel Bennathan cited his “staggering arrogance” and told him: “About 20 years ago, Russell Brand, you were becoming famous. You were clever and, in many people’s eyes, funny and charismatic. You had also become a sexual predator.” He gave nine years for the rape and 35 months for the three assaults, the sentences running consecutively, and said Brand will be indefinitely subject to the notification requirements of the Sexual Offences Act 2003. One woman read her own statement from behind a curtain; three were read for them. “Whatever women wear, wherever they go, indeed whatever they drink,” the judge said, “they retain the right to say no.” Also: the jury in the Sandra Birchmore case is deliberating in Boston after Matthew Farwell chose not to testify. And Florida executed Jesse Guardado, tying the state’s record. Garret Fisher reports.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

On Thursday, a jury at Southwark Crown Court convicted Russell Brand of raping a woman at his London home in 2009 and of sexually assaulting three others, and acquitted him of two further rapes and one attempted indecent assault. All seven verdicts were unanimous. He was refused bail and taken to prison; he returns to court this morning to be sentenced. Garret Fisher tells the whole story in one episode: who Brand was in the 2000s, what each of the six women told the jury, the wall of witnesses the prosecution built around the fifth complainant, the charge the judge threw out halfway through, the four hours Brand spent in the witness box admitting an obsession with sex while denying every crime, and the closing speeches that framed the case as either a man who treated consent as an obstacle or a trial poisoned by a television documentary. And then, for the first time since the trial began, his own read: the four-times silence in police interviews and the phrase “escalating recollection”; why the poisoned-well argument couldn’t reach back to 2009; what Brand’s own evidence did to his case; and why the three acquittals are not a failure of the jury but the system working exactly as designed.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

A jury at Southwark Crown Court convicted Russell Brand, 51, on Thursday of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, and acquitted him of two further counts of rape and one of attempted indecent assault. The rape conviction concerns a woman he met after a 2009 stand-up show and later raped at his London home. All seven verdicts were unanimous, from a jury of eight men and four women, after deliberations across three days. Mr Justice Bennathan told him: “You’ve been convicted of a number of offences including rape. The consequence of that is inevitably a significant custodial term.” He refused bail and remanded Brand in custody; sentencing is Monday. Rape carries a maximum of life in England. The Metropolitan Police said afterwards that a separate investigation into allegations by two more women is ongoing and files have gone to the CPS; Brand has not been charged in connection with those. Also: Christa Pike’s lawyers have filed an emergency motion over her confinement in a prison infirmary. And the Sandra Birchmore case goes to a Boston jury. Garret Fisher reports.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

Sandra Birchmore joined the Stoughton Police Explorers program as a young teenager. Prosecutors say Matthew Farwell, one of the officers who ran it, began a sexual relationship with her when she was 15 and he was 27, and that nearly a decade later, when she was 23 and pregnant and a friend had reported the relationship to his own department, he strangled her and staged it as a suicide. Farwell has pleaded not guilty; the defence says she took her own life after he ended the affair. Before closing arguments Friday, Garret Fisher lays out the whole case: the messages, the baby-name list ending in Matthew, the mask on the building video, the phone that stopped moving at 9:40, the medical examiner who ruled suicide and later changed it to undetermined, the expert who told the jury this was an altered crime scene, and the wall of defence experts who say the medical evidence cannot rule out suicide. Also: the Russell Brand jury finished its first full day of deliberations in London; he denies all seven charges. And in Illinois, Corie Walsh is charged in the death of her two-year-old son, Barrett. Garret Fisher reports.Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll!Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America.Follow us on Facebook and Instagram by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform. You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show.But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes.We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.