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Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer on the movie "Rust," was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021. 

Hutchins was shot after a gun that star and producer Alec Baldwin was holding fired a live round. Baldwin is also charged with manslaughter but has maintained that he did not pull the trigger. 

Also:

• The Supreme Court overturns the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove Donald Trump from the ballot for insurrection. 
• U.S. Airman Jack Teixeira pleads guilty to leaking classified documents on Discord. 

Producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones has filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, adding to a slew of sexual assault lawsuits the hip-hop mogul has faced recently. 

Also: The trial for the armorer accused of manslaughter in the death of a cinematographer on the set of an Alec Baldwin film is underway in Santa Fe.  

Six men were gunned down in the California desert in January in what authorities believe was a dispute tied to an illegal marijuana-growing operation.

Despite the fact that marijuana is legal for recreational use in California, violence like this continues to take place. 

Also: 

• A federal appeals court rejects Donald's Trump's argument that he's immune from being prosecuted for allegedly trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election due to -- presidential immunity. 
• The mother of a convicted school shooter is herself convicted of manslaughter for buying the gun that her son used to carry out the massacre. 

Resources:

Marijuana killings:  https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-29/arrests-announced-after-6-bodies-found-in-san-bernardino-county-desert 

 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-03/illegal-marijuana-california-crime-federal-law

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-11-09/california-cannabis-deaths-father-and-son-mexico-murders-mendocino-county 

 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-28/aguanga-riverside-marijuana-grow-murders-laotian

Donald Trump:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/06/trump-jan-6-immunity-appeal-denied/

Jennifer Crumbley:  https://abcnews.go.com/US/jury-reaches-verdict-jennifer-crumbley-manslaughter-trial/story?id=106924349 

Vince McMahon left the WWE after a former employee accused him of sexual assault and sex trafficking in a new federal lawsuit. 

The details of some sexual encounters between her, McMahon and other WWE employees are very disturbing, and have allegedly left the victim with trauma so bad that she can't leave her house for weeks at a time. 

McMahon has denied all the allegations. 

Also:

The state of Alabama used a controversial method to execute an inmate that has never been used before, leaving some to believe that it was cruel human experimentation; and

A jury finds that Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll over $83 million as part of a defamation lawsuit she filed against him. 

Resources: 

Vince McMahon: 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wwe-founder-vince-mcmahon-resigns-ex-employee-accuses-lawsuit-sexual-a-rcna135981 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/01/27/vince-mcmahon-wwe-resigns/ 

Alabama execution: 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/25/alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas-kenneth-smith/ 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/us/nitrogen-gas-execution/index.html 

On Christmas Eve 2002, 27-year-old Laci Peterson, who was eight months pregnant, vanished into thin air. Her body was found months later in the San Francisco Bay. 

Laci's husband, Scott Peterson, was convicted on murder charges for killing Laci and their unborn son and was sentenced to life in prison. 

Now, the Los Angeles Innocence Project says new evidence may back Scott's claim that he didn't kill Laci. 

Also:

• Alec Baldwin is once again charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
• A young man kills eight people, many of them relatives, in Illinois before dying in a confrontation with police in Texas. 
• The mother of a school shooter goes to trial for buying the gun that her son used to kill four fellow students. 
• A district attorney in Texas is having a grand jury investigate the Robb Elementary shooting after the Department of Justice issued a scathing report about the police response to the incident. 
• Donald Trump warns the Supreme Court of "bedlam" if it doesn't overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove him from the state ballot.

Resources:

Scott Peterson case:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/innocence-project-takes-case-notorious-killer-scott-peterson/story?id=106487571 

https://abc7chicago.com/scott-peterson-case-new-evidence-innocence-project/14352815/ 

https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/scott-peterson-innocence-project-evidence/  

Alec Baldwin:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/arts/alec-baldwin-charged-involuntary-manslaughter.html 

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/santa-fe-grand-jury-indicts-alec-baldwin-on-new-manslaughter-charge/article_05b5bc9a-b700-11ee-b312-77b2f98dec41.html 

Romeo Nance:
https://abc7chicago.com/romeo-nance-2200-west-acres-road-joliet-il-killer/14352185/ 

Jennifer Crumbley trial: 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/22/jennifer-crumbley-trial-preview/ 

Uvalde report: 
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-police-crime-charges-aff5ec50f5819913da41f412dadb5a74 

Donald Trump case:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/18/trump-supreme-court-colorado-ballot-brief/  

The Supreme Court has said that it will take on a case that will determine whether cities in the U.S. can ban sleeping in public, even when there are no other options for people experiencing homelessness. 

And;

Former U.S. President Donald Trump was admonished by two different judges this last week after Trump acted inappropriately in court. 

Former U.S. President Donald Trump, who is also the GOP frontrunner in this year's presidential election, didn't have a lot go his way recently in several court cases against him -- but the Supreme Court may bail him out. 

Also: 

• Hundreds of Boeing jets are grounded as the Federal Aviation Administration investigates an incident that left a giant hole in the side of an Alaska Airlines plane midflight.
• U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert is accused of domestic violence by her ex-husband.

Three former New Mexico State Basketball players -- Kim Aiken Jr., Doctor Bradley and DeShawndre Washington -- were charged with criminal sexual penetration, criminal sexual contact and false imprisonment for allegedly holding down other players and student staff members and violating them. 

This is the latest in a string of unfortunate events for the program in the last year, which included another former player shooting a University of New Mexico student during an altercation and lawsuits against the school for the alleged sexual crimes. 

Also: 

• The U.S. Supreme Court adopts a code of ethics, but it lacks any enforceability, and;
• A mother and her former boyfriend have been charged in the 1988 death of a 5-year-old girl in Georgia. 

Authorities in Nevada have charged 60 year old Duane Davis with the 1996 murder of influential rapper Tupac Shakur, who was only 25 at the time of his death. 

Davis had tied himself to the fatal shooting in his 2019 memoir, a move that no doubt piqued investigators' curiosity. 

Also: 

• Rep. Kevin McCarthy is given the boot as  Speaker of the House after just nine months on the job.
• Sen. Diane Feinstein dies at the age of 90.
• Donald Trump's civil trial over allegations that he inflated his financial worth has got underway, and;
• A 9-year-old girl was found safe after allegedly being abducted in New York state. 

One man was shot and taken to a hospital during a protest around the re-introduction of a statue depicting controversial Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate in Espanola, New Mexico, on Thursday. 

The alleged shooter, Ryan Martinez, was taken into custody a short time after. The victim is Jacob Johns, a Native American man from Spokane, Washington. 

Onate and statues depicting him have been a controversial topic for several years now. There was a shooting at a similar protest in Albuquerque a few years ago, which calls into question why government officials in Espanola wanted to re-introduce the statue this week. 

Resources: 

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/man-shot-during-juan-de-o-ate-statue-rally-in-espa-ola/article_946dcd3c-5e2d-11ee-9363-97e4e793df8a.html#tncms-source=home-featured-7-block

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/sheriffs-official-ids-suspected-shooter-in-violence-at-planned-site-of-o-ate-statue/article_631b4766-5d63-11ee-a392-db0eabb068dc.html