Eric Levenson - Senior Writer, CNN Digital
Eric Levenson
Senior Writer, CNN Digital
Eric Levenson is a senior writer for CNN Digital, reporting on national breaking news stories with a particular focus on crime and trials.
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‘I do not support the death penalty’: Why the prosecution in Laken Riley’s murder trial asked for life in prison
Nov 21, 2024
When Deborah Gonzalez ran to be elected District Attorney of Georgia’s Western Judicial Circuit in 2020, she made no bones about her position on capital punishment.
The latest pretrial developments in the Idaho student killings trial
Nov 21, 2024
Here’s a timeline of some of the notable pre-trial hearings and decisions in the quadruple murder trial against Bryan Kohberger.
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November 20, 2024 - Judge sentences Laken Riley’s murderer to life in prison
Nov 20, 2024
Jose Ibarra, the man convicted of killing Laken Riley as she jogged through the woods at the University of Georgia, was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole Wednesday, concluding a highly emotional, four-day trial.
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November 19, 2024 - Day 3 of the murder trial of the man accused of killing Laken Riley
Nov 20, 2024
Jose Antonio Ibarra is accused of killing nursing student Laken Riley while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus on February 22.
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Day 2 of the murder trial of the man accused of killing Georgia student Laken Riley wraps up
Nov 18, 2024
The latest updates in the trial of Jose Antonio Ibarra, the 26-year-old undocumented immigrant accused of the murder of Univ. of Georgia student Laken Riley.
Shaken subway riders, military chokeholds, a death certificate: How prosecutors built their case against Daniel Penny
Nov 18, 2024
Prosecutors rested their case against Daniel Penny on Monday after eight days of witness testimony.
Volunteer forest ranger, 18, dies responding to New York wildfire that sent smoky haze over NYC
Nov 11, 2024
An 18-year-old New York State Forest Ranger volunteer and state employee died Saturday while responding to a wildfire near the New York-New Jersey border that sent smoke drifting across New York City, officials said.
Defense in Delphi murder trial rests its case after testimony from cell phone forensic expert, psychiatrist
Nov 6, 2024
The defense for Richard Allen, the man accused of killing two teenagers in Delphi, Indiana, in 2017, rested its case Wednesday after several days of calling witnesses, including a cell phone forensic expert and a psychiatrist, according to CNN affiliate WTHR.
Battleground states counted ballots quickly after mostly smooth Election Day vote
Nov 6, 2024
Battleground states are counting the ballots that will decide the next US president into the early hours of Wednesday morning, after Election Day voting that largely went smoothly despite fake bomb threats that targeted multiple states.
Voting nationwide has been mostly orderly, despite non-credible bomb threats from Russian origin
Nov 6, 2024
Polls have closed in most of the US while voting continues in some Western states as tens of millions of American voters went to the polls Tuesday to choose the country’s next leaders.
2 Ohio officers charged with reckless homicide in death of Black man in police custody
Nov 3, 2024
Two police officers in Canton, Ohio, were indicted on charges of reckless homicide in the death of Frank Tyson, a Black man who was restrained by police in April, Stark County prosecutor Kyle L. Stone said on Saturday.
Daniel Penny’s lawyers argue he protected others, prosecutors say he ‘went too far’ as NYC subway manslaughter trial begins
Nov 2, 2024
The prosecution and defense painted dueling portraits of Daniel Penny in opening statements Friday in the former Marine’s manslaughter trial in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway last year.
How ballot drop boxes work and how officials keep them secure
Oct 30, 2024
Fires at two ballot drop boxes in the Portland, Oregon, area this week as well as a similar fire earlier this month have raised questions about the role of drop boxes in the upcoming election.
The Vessel in NYC’s Hudson Yards reopens with safety netting 3 years after spate of suicides. But is it any better?
Oct 27, 2024
The massive honeycomb structure known as the Vessel in New York City’s Hudson Yards reopened Monday with newly installed safety netting more than three years after a spate of suicides led to its ignominious closure.
About
Eric Levenson is a senior writer for CNN Digital, reporting on national breaking news stories with a particular focus on crime and trials.
Since joining CNN in 2017, he has covered many of the country’s biggest criminal trials, including those of Bill Cosby, Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, Derek Chauvin, Kyle Rittenhouse and Ghislaine Maxwell.
He also has closely analyzed and reported on mass shootings in Parkland, Florida, and Las Vegas, Black Lives Matter protests across the country, hurricanes and flooding, and the coronavirus pandemic.
Before CNN, Levenson was a breaking news reporter for Boston.com and a writer for The Atlantic Wire. He is originally from Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from Princeton.
