Actor Charlie Sheen asked a Colorado court on Wednesday to lift an order that has required him to stay away from his wife, amid reports that the couple hope to reconcile after his Christmas Day domestic violence arrest.
A hearing is set for Monday, according to the prosecutor overseeing the case in the ski resort of Aspen.
Charlie Sheen has been arrested in the Colorado resort town of Aspen on charges related to an alleged case of domestic violence.
Police say the alleged victim didn’t have to be taken to the hospital. That person’s name was not released.
Aspen police spokeswoman Stephanie Dasaro says Sheen was arrested Friday on charges of second-degree assault and menacing, both felonies, along with criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
In a case that has polarized public passions, director Roman Polanski did not win his freedom Monday for a 32-year-old sex offense, but an appeals court said in a strongly worded opinion there was probable judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in his case.
Polanski wears an electronic monitoring device while under house arrest in Switzerland, where he was arrested as a fugitive when he arrived to attend a film festival in September.
A California appeals court has rejected Roman Polanski’s bid to have his sex case dismissed.
“We encourage all participating parties to do their utmost to ensure that this matter now draws to a close in a manner that fully addresses the issues of due process and fundamental fairness raised by the events of long ago,” the court’s opinion stated.
Lil Wayne heads to court in February for sentencing in his New York gun case, just days after his next album comes out.
He pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. The charge stemmed from a 2007 traffic stop of his tour bus. His plea deal calls for a year in jail.
The rap star’s sentencing date is Feb.
Creditors of bankrupt Philadelphia Newspapers LLC should not be allowed to use their secured debt in a bid for the company because that would discourage cash bidders, an attorney for the company told an appeals court on Tuesday.
The company has sought to have all bids made in cash.
As the battle for control of the publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.
Rock singer Courtney Love lost legal control of her daughter with late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain after a court gave temporary guardianship of the 17 year-old to Cobains mother and sister, court papers showed on Monday.
The judges decision on temporary guardianship of Frances Bean Cobain comes ahead of the release of Loves latest album, “Nobodys Daughter,” which is expected early next year.
A court filing shows the only daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love has been placed in a temporary guardianship. The filing states Cobain’s mother Wendy O’Connor and his sister Kimberly Dawn Cobain are now caring for the 17-year-old daughter.
A three-page order issued Friday is all that is publicly available.
The publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper goes to a federal appeals court on Tuesday to argue for a bankruptcy reorganization that could favor management and shareholders over banks and set a precedent for other cases.
The company argues that cash-only bidding levels the playing field, but it also changes an essential element of bankruptcy sales such as the one used by Chrysler.
A schizophrenic man who admitted punching British pop star Leona Lewis as she signed copies of her autobiography in a London bookstore was ordered by a court on Monday to be detained indefinitely under mental health regulations.
Londons City of Westminster magistrates court was told that Kowalczyk said “gotcha” as he landed the punch.