A former county social worker's aide is guilty of brutally stabbing his wife and raping her daughter at their Miami-Dade home in January 2005, jurors ruled late Friday. Grady Nelson, 53, could face the death penalty for the first-degree murder of his wife, Angelina Martinez, 32. He also was found guilty of...
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Miami-Dade jury: Man guilty of murdering his wife
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Kendall man convicted of murdering migrant worker in robbery
Jurors on Monday convicted a Miami-Dade man of fatally stabbing a migrant worker during a robbery behind a Kendall strip mall. Prosecutors said Tyler Darnell, 29, stabbed Adan Castillo in...
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Judge to allow hearing for British citizen convicted in 1986 Miami double murder
A judge will allow a former British businessman convicted of a savage 1986 Miami double murder to present claims that the Colombian cartel was really to blame for the slayings. Krishna Maharaj, whose claims of innocence have long been championed by the British press and politicians, was convicted at trial in 1987 in the killings of business associate Derrick Moo Young and Moo Young’s son Duane in a suite at Miami’s Dupont Plaza Hotel. Maharaj’s...
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Cardona convicted again in Miami Beach Baby Lollipops murder case
Two decades after she was sent to Death Row for torturing and murdering her infant son known as Baby Lollipops, Ana Maria Cardona is again a convicted killer. Miami-Dade jurors on Friday morning, after about 14 hours of deliberation over two days, convicted Cardona of...
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Jurors convict teen in slaying of couple at Miami Gardens gas station
A Miami Gardens teenager is guilty of the murder of a couple during a carjacking at a Mobil gas station nearly three years ago, jurors decided late Friday. After four hours of deliberations, jurors convicted Eric Ellington, 18, of the slayings of Julian Soler and Kennia Duran in July 2011....
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Teen convicted in attack on Miami-Dade officer will get new trial
The teen convicted in the robbery and shooting of an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer outside a Little Haiti church will be getting a new trial. In court documents filed Wednesday, Miami-Dade prosecutors agreed that Willie Barney, 19, should get a new trial. The reason: Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat, during jury selection, should have let Barney’s defense attorney boot a prospective juror. That juror made the cut...
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Miami killer accused of plot to assassinate prosecutors
Convicted Wednesday of the gruesome torture and murder of a fellow drug dealer, Travis Stubbs is now charged with allegedly plotting the assassinations of the two Miami-Dade prosecutors on his case. Two sets of jurors convicted Stubbs, 30, and Michael Paul, 32, of the July 2005 murder of Jesus Discua, 26, whose charred, bullet-ridden body was found inside a red Audi abandoned in Little Haiti. The robbers held him hostage, tortured and killed him, and...
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Once sent to Death Row, Miami killer of five gets new sentencing hearing
Tavares Calloway, the Miami man sent to Death Row for the murder of five people during a 1997 drug robbery, is getting a new sentencing hearing. The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ordered that Calloway — who was sentenced to execution after a jury recommendation vote of 7-5 — deserved a chance at a new sentence under...
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Rick Scott sets December execution for Florida inmate convicted of 1992 Miami murder
Gov. Rick Scott has re-scheduled the execution of a Florida inmate convicted of a 1992 Miami murder for Dec. 13. Jose Antonio Jimenez was originally scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 14, more than 26 years after he beat and repeatedly stabbed 63-year-old Phyllis Minas when she caught him burglarizing her Miami-Dade apartment. ......
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For family in 1986 Miami murder case, another loss
Nearly three decades after Derrick Moo Young and his son were gunned down in a Miami hotel, relatives flew from across the country to sit through yet another bid for freedom sought by the convicted killer. Then, tragedy struck again. Just as testimony got under way this week, the family rushed from the courtroom to the bedside of Jeannette Moo Young, Derrick’s widow and a retired Broward school teacher. Doctors reported the 82-year-old, recently diagnosed with cancer, was in grave condition. She died peacefully, surrounded by family, her daughter said Thursday. For her...
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Jurors still deliberating in Miami Gardens carjacking murder case
Jurors on Wednesday were continuing to deliberate in the case of a man accused of fatally shooting a young mother during a botched carjacking at a Miami Gardens gas station. Dylan McFarlane, 21, is accused of gunning down Kennia...
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With help from journalism students, Miami man freed after 12 years behind bars for murder
MIAMI — One month after a judge ordered a new trial and cast doubt on the evidence against him for murder, Tony Brown is about to be a free man. Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped the case against Brown, who spent 12 years behind bars for a murder outside a North Miami-Dade nightclub, a killing his defense lawyers said he did not commit. Brown will be released later Tuesday. “It took a long time, but the justice system worked in this case,” defense lawyer Philip Reizenstein...
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