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A man at the center of his estranged wife's disappearance was charged with murder on Tuesday.
Fotis Dulos is accused of killing Jennifer Farber Dulos of New Canaan. She vanished more than seven months ago, on May 24.
State police officially charged him with murder, felony murder and kidnapping on Tuesday. His bond was set at $6 million.
Michelle Troconis, Fotis Dulos' former girlfriend, was also arrested for conspiracy to commit murder, according to troopers.
Her bond...

Kent Mawhinney, a civil attorney for Fotis Dulos, was also charged in connection to the disapperance of Jennifer Dulos.

The story of Jennifer Dulos, a missing mother of five, gripped Connecticut and many around the country for months as police divulged a mountain of evidence against her estranged husband, but without filing a murder charge.
After she disappeared May 24, Fotis Dulos gave interviews to national media outlets denying involvement and saying he hoped she was still alive. His lawyer, Norman Pattis, also offered up a theory that Jennifer Dulos may have faked her own death to frame her husband...

The estranged husband of a New Canaan woman who vanished several months ago is expected to post his $6 million bond on Thursday.
Fotis Dulos was arrested on Tuesday and charged with murder, felony murder and kidnapping.
In court on Wednesday, a judge kept his bond at $6 million and added house arrest to his terms if he is released from custody.
There was word he'd post bond Wednesday, but his attorney said it will likely happen on Thursday. If that does happen, Fotis will...

The legal team for Alex Jones closed out 2019 with a bang, garnering upward of $100,000 in sanctions and fees from an extremely irate Texas state judge in one of the multiple defamation suits over the Infowars host’s description of grieving Sandy Hook parents as “crisis actors.”
The Daily Beast reports that Travis County Judge Scott Jenkins was singularly unimpressed with the cavalier approach to discovery and document retention by Jones in the lawsuit filed by Neil...

When you're expecting a baby, receiving a jury summons is probably the last thing on your mind. So can you get out of jury duty for pregnancy, or do you just have to grin and bear it? The answer will vary from person to person and case to case.
Officially, jury duty is still on the table. "Pregnancy is not a disqualifying event," Norm Pattis, a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer and the bestselling author of Juries & Justice, tells Romper. Other experts support this idea,...

As Christmas Eve will mark seven months since Jennifer Dulos vanished, her estranged husband reiterated in a Fox News Channel interview broadcast nationally on Monday that he does not owe her family any money and that he misses his five children.
Fotis Dulos, who is charged in his estranged wife’s disappearance, discussed his mother-in-law’s civil lawsuit against him and how he has not seen his children since a few days before Jennifer Dulos vanished on May 24.
"There's...

Colleges and universities have a lower standard of proof than the American legal system when it comes to allegations of sexual assault. This means that a student who is charged with sex-related crimes but found not guilty by an impartial jury can still be expelled from his school.
The difference in proof — coupled with an inherent bias in adjudicators who are trained to believe all women — makes it easy for colleges to expel students based on less evidence that is presented at...

A Yale student who was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a fellow student in 2018 is suing the university.
A lawyer for Saifullah Khan, a native of Afghanistan, is citing “lost educational opportunity” and “intentional infliction of emotional distress” in court papers filed late this week in Federal District Court.
After Kahn was acquitted of sexual assault in court, Yale allowed him to resume his studies as a full-time student in the fall of...

Saifullah Khan, who has been banned from Yale University on two occasions, including on an allegation of rape, has sued the institution for $110 million.
In the midst of the #MeToo movement, the Khan case has garnered state and national attention. Protests and petitions calling for Khan to be expelled from the university erupted soon after the rape allegations, and continued even after a jury acquitted him of the charge in March 2018 and Khan sought reinstatement.
Now, Khan’s...