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  • Thomas Markle Back in Custody After the Ankle Monitor, and the Competency Order That Could Decide the Case

    Thomas Markle Back in Custody After the Ankle Monitor, and the Competency Order That Could Decide the Case
    2026/11/12
    Thomas Markle Sr., 82, was returned to federal custody Tuesday after prosecutors said he cut off his court-ordered ankle monitor at 1:45 a.m. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, who is prosecuting the Los Angeles case, wrote: “Release conditions are court orders, not suggestions,” and told the AP he did not know why the device was removed. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsay Griffin revoked his release, noting his housing situation had become “untenable,” ordered him held separately from the general population to the extent practicable, and ordered a prompt medical evaluation with all prescribed medication continued. He was booked into the Pinellas County Jail. Less reported: on Nov. 6, the day of his arrest, Griffin also ordered an independent psychiatric examination to determine whether he is competent to stand trial, citing his health, his age and his lack of recall. That report is due Nov. 20. No determination has been made. He denies the charge and is presumed innocent. Also: a man is charged with murder aboard the MSC Seascape in international waters. And the Sandra Birchmore jury returns after a day off. Garret Fisher reports.

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  • Thomas Markle Charged in a Federal Child Abuse Material Case, Meghan’s Statement, Plus a Deadlocked Jury in Boston

    Thomas Markle Charged in a Federal Child Abuse Material Case, Meghan’s Statement, Plus a Deadlocked Jury in Boston
    2026/11/11
    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.

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  • Russell Brand Sentenced to Ten Years and Six Months for Rape and Three Sexual Assaults, What the Four Women Told the Court

    Russell Brand Sentenced to Ten Years and Six Months for Rape and Three Sexual Assaults, What the Four Women Told the Court
    2026/11/10
    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.

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  • GUILTY: Russell Brand Convicted of Rape and Three Sexual Assaults, Acquitted on Three Counts, Remanded in Custody, Sentencing Monday

    GUILTY: Russell Brand Convicted of Rape and Three Sexual Assaults, Acquitted on Three Counts, Remanded in Custody, Sentencing Monday
    2026/11/06
    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.

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  • The Whole Russell Brand Trial, Start to Finish: Six Women, Four Convictions, Three Acquittals, and Why the Defence Failed Where It Did

    The Whole Russell Brand Trial, Start to Finish: Six Women, Four Convictions, Three Acquittals, and Why the Defence Failed Where It Did
    2026/11/09
    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.

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  • The Whole Sandra Birchmore Case, Start to Finish, Before the Jury Gets It Tomorrow, Plus Day Two of the Russell Brand Deliberations

    The Whole Sandra Birchmore Case, Start to Finish, Before the Jury Gets It Tomorrow, Plus Day Two of the Russell Brand Deliberations
    2026/11/05
    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.

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  • The Russell Brand Jury Is Out and Deliberating in London, Murdaugh’s Lawyers Accuse a SLED Agent, a Clash Over the Clancy Holdout

    The Russell Brand Jury Is Out and Deliberating in London, Murdaugh’s Lawyers Accuse a SLED Agent, a Clash Over the Clancy Holdout
    2026/11/04
    The jury in Russell Brand’s trial retired at Southwark Crown Court just before 2:50 p.m. on Tuesday, after Mr Justice Bennathan finished summing up more than three weeks of evidence. “I can only accept a verdict from all 12 of you that is a unanimous verdict,” he told the eight men and four women, directing them to a bundle of photographs and diagrams and telling them to take their time — they would not be criticised for taking too long. Brand, 51, denies three counts of rape, three of sexual assault and one of attempted indecent assault, involving six women between 1999 and 2009; the judge has called consent the million-dollar question of the case. Also: Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers have asked a judge to dismiss the murder indictments, alleging SLED agent David Owen told the grand jury the T-shirt Murdaugh wore that night carried the victims’ blood spatter when the agency’s own lab had found no human blood on it eleven months earlier. The state has not responded; both sides argue it Nov. 13. And Judge William Sullivan will rule Nov. 16 on the defence motions in the Lindsay Clancy case. Garret Fisher reports.

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  • Defence Closes in the Russell Brand Trial, Judge Sums Up Today and the Jury Could Go Out, Plus a Second Verdict Watch in Boston

    Defence Closes in the Russell Brand Trial, Judge Sums Up Today and the Jury Could Go Out, Plus a Second Verdict Watch in Boston
    2026/11/03
    Ian Winter KC closed the defence case for Russell Brand at Southwark Crown Court on Monday, opening with an 1864 passage from John Henry Newman and telling jurors that 2023 media reporting had “poisoned the wells” of justice by prompting the complainants to come forward — that they did not make the “independent decision” to speak out. He said Brand is not a psychopath who rapes people and thinks it’s normal, that he respects it when a woman says no, and that “living a highly promiscuous life is entirely lawful however morally distasteful you may find it.” His question to the jury: can you be sure that out of the many women who voluntarily had sex with Brand, he raped just three of them. He ended by inviting a verdict of not guilty. The judge sums up today and the jury could begin deliberating; Brand, 51, denies all seven charges. Also: the defence case in Boston has called a forensic psychiatrist and two experts challenging the strangulation evidence in the Sandra Birchmore trial, with closings possible this week. And Florida executes Jesse Guardado on Thursday. Garret Fisher reports.

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