It’s Friday the 13th, and a corpse was found in a Raleigh Food Lion freezer earlier this week, according to a story from the N&O. Chillingly, the incident “is not the first time a body has been found in a workplace freezer.” The investigation continues. Read on for more criminal law news. Can’t Stop the Rock. Several outlets – including AP, CNN, ABC, and NYT – report that Justin Timberlake has agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge, resolving his DWI case. As previously reported here, Timberlake was arrested in Sag Harbor, New York, in June after running a stop sign and emerging from his BMW with bloodshot eyes and alcohol on his breath. In other celebrity news, Jon Bon Jovi, reportedly talked a woman off a ledge in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, according to Fox News, NPR, NBC, and The Tennessean. The 62-year-old rocker was filming a music video for his song, “The People’s House,” on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge when he saw the woman standing on a ledge over the Cumberland River. Bon Jovi and a production assistant talked to the woman and helped her come back onto the pedestrian walkway. Signed, Sealed, Revoked. Seven news organizations, including Fox News, NBC, AP, and NPR, filed a motion late last week seeking access to the plea deal reached with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged 9/11 mastermind. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III revoked the agreement days after it was signed by the retired general he put in charge of the [...]
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