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GUILTY VERDICT

A couple dances at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House
NEW YORK (AP) — When the verdicts came in — Guilty, Guilty, Guilty — Lucia Edmonds let out the breath she hadn’t even realized she’d been holding. The relief that the 91-year-old Black woman felt flooding over her when white former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted for killing...
 Aukuso Sale
Apia, SAMOA — A man who shot his nephew and threatened to sleep with the nephew’s wife on Father’s Day Sunday, 2018 has been sentenced to three years in prison. The defendant, Aukuso Sale, 59 was sentenced to serve three years and 10 months in prison when he appeared before Supreme Court Justice...
Thomas Siaumau leaving the court house in a Samoa News file photo
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Trial Division of the High Court has taken under advisement a motion last week by Thomas Siaumau and his attorney, for a court order to allow them to interview jurors who delivered the guilty verdict in Siaumau’s trial last month. A hearing for the second motion by...
American Samoa High Court building
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Associate Justice Fiti Sunia has denied motions from Thomas Siaumau and his defense team, requesting the court to allow them to speak with members of the jury who delivered a unanimous guilty verdict last week. Siaumau was found guilty of shooting at a police vehicle...