In Other News: Man faces manslaughter charge for helping cancer-stricken wife die by suicide; Oregon governor sends out state police to find GOP lawmakers skipping climate vote

Published 2:37 pm Friday, June 21, 2019

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Supreme Court throws out murder conviction of black inmate as Kavanaugh, Gorsuch split again

The Supreme Court on Friday tossed out the murder conviction of a black death row inmate who underwent six criminal trials before being convicted, in a 7-2 opinion that saw Trump-appointed Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch split once again. The court voted to throw out the conviction due to a prosecutor’s efforts to keep African Americans off the jury in the cases against Curtis Flowers, who was tried for the 1996 execution-style murders of four people in a furniture store in Mississippi. He has been in jail for more than 22 years. — Fox News

Trump threatened Time journalist with prison over Kim Jong Un letter

President Trump’s interview with a team of reporters from Time magazine took a sudden turn when he made a comment about prison time for a journalist. The exchange happened in the Oval Office on Monday. Time published the interview transcript on Thursday evening, and that’s when the comment started to get attention. Here’s the background: Trump showed the four reporters a letter that he said was “written by Kim Jong Un. It was delivered to me yesterday. By hand.” Then he asked to go off-the-record, so that he could make comments that would not be reported or included in the transcript. A Time journalist who was in the room evidently tried to take a photo of the letter’s contents — and when the interview was back on the record, press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “You can’t take a picture of that, sorry.” — CNN

Man faces manslaughter charge for helping cancer-stricken wife die by suicide

A Connecticut man faces a manslaughter charge after police say he helped his terminally ill wife die by suicide. Kevin Conners, 65, turned himself into police Thursday after he told authorities that he held a gun to his cancer-stricken wife’s head as she pulled the trigger, according to an arrest warrant. State police say Conners posted a $50,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in court Friday. He faced a second-degree manslaughter charge, or “aiding another person to commit suicide,” police said. Conners’ wife, Lori, asked him to hold the gun because she feared she wouldn’t be able to keep it steady, the man told investigators, according to the warrant. — USA Today

Oregon governor sends out state police to find GOP lawmakers skipping climate vote

Republican lawmakers in Oregon are in hot water after they refused to partake in a historic vote Thursday to implement a cap-and-trade program to help rein in industrial carbon emissions. Gov. Kate Brown authorized the state police to round up the 12 Republicans who walked out of the Capitol in protest of the bill and bring them back to the Senate floor for a vote. If passed, the measure will make Oregon the second state in the country after California to implement such a program. — Fox News