Virginia governor signs probation reform bill alongside rapper Meek Mill
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed a bill on Thursday that will provide court limitations for probation sentences in his state. The legislation won the support of rapper and criminal justice advocate Meek Mill, who in 2019 overcame a 12-year legal case for misdemeanor charges that resulted in both prison and probation.
"I have the resources and I'm in a position to do better to help," Meek Mill said Thursday at a news conference. "I'll make sure I'll be able to deliver and close every bridge I can to help fix the system because I was affected by that." The bill takes effect July 1 and limits the amount of "active incarceration" a court can impose for violations to a person's probation terms. It requires a court to "measure any period of suspension of sentence from the date of entry of the original sentencing order" and limits supervised probation to a maximum of five years for felony charges and one year for misdemeanor offenses.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.