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May 11, 2022 · The criminal case against Tan has been circuitous, with a trial on a murder charge ending with a stalemated jury, then a judge dismissing the murder count after deciding there was not...
Nov 20, 2019 · Charles Tan, 23, of Pittsford, avoided a state murder conviction after a jury deadlocked in his father’s 2015 death and a judge ruled there wasn’t enough evidence for another trial.
Jun 15, 2021 · CLEVELAND -- A judge in Ohio has dismissed murder charges filed against the brother of Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles, ruling Tuesday that prosecutors did not present evidence to...
Jun 15, 2021 · CNN — After a mistrial was declared last month in the murder trial of Tevin Biles-Thomas, the brother of Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, a judge in Ohio acquitted Biles-Thomas of...
Jun 21, 2018 · Prosecutors arraigned Tan on second degree murder. He went before a jury in September 2015. His trial lasted just over a week and centred on the gun, the fingerprints and the supposed...
- The 20-Year Sentence
- The Alleged Abuse
- The Future
Last year, Tan pleaded guilty to tricking a friend into purchasing the shotgun Tan wielded to kill his father. A federal judge sentenced Tan to 20 years, deciding that Tan's admission — in which Tan acknowledged that he knew the gun would be used in Jim Tan's homicide — showed a clear connection to the killing. The judge determined that Tan had, in...
In the bid to get Tan's sentence revisited, Rudin argues that there was ample evidence of abuse that Tan's lawyers should have presented at sentencing last year. Rudin also enlisted a forensic psychologist to interview Tan, and, court records say, the report shows how emotionally fragile Tan was when he killed his father. The report is sealed in co...
Federal prosecutors have until March to respond to the request that U.S. District Judge Frederick Scullin Jr. vacate Tan's sentence. Scullin could also opt to schedule a hearing on the request. Practically speaking, this was one of the few — if not the only —possible legal routes for Tan to shorten his sentence. He would have a difficult time backi...
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Nov 19, 2018 · Syracuse, N. Y. (WHAM) - More than three and a half years after his father was shot dead in his Pittsford home, Charlie Tan was sentenced to 20 years in prison for federal weapons charges.
