A judge rejected the plea deal for former southern Colorado funeral home owner Jon Hallford on Friday, according to 11 News crew members present in the courtroom.Hallford and his wife, Carie, are accused of improperly storing nearly 200 bodies through their business,

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A judge on Friday rejected a plea agreement for a Colorado funeral home owner who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses, after family members described the pain and shame they’ve carried since learning their loved ones’ bodies were left to rot.

Judge Eric Bentley rejected a plea deal for Jon Hallford, former funeral home co-owner accused of corpse abuse.

Oscar Olea and prosecutors had worked out a deal where he would spend 12 years in prison, but a victim of his alleged sexual assault objected.

Yates, a former nurse whose license has since been suspended, was arrested in November following an "anonymous" tip alleging she engaged in sexual activities with the boy on July, 30, 2024, according to a Marion County Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit previously obtained by PEOPLE.

A man accused of shooting and killing a Boone High School student in 2018 refuses a plea deal on Friday and will instead go to trial.

Updated at 4:35 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22 A former Raintree Montessori School employee accused of inappropriately touching two preschoolers three years ago at the private school took a plea agreement on Friday and faces a sentence of more than 15 years in prison.

Alexis Von Yates, the Florida woman accused of having sex with her teenage stepson before her husband walked in on them, has taken a plea deal in the case.

Despite painstaking statements and objections from two of his three sexual assault victims, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Alberto Milian said Thursday there would be no trial for former Key Biscayne gymnastics instructor Oscar Olea, who last week reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid what was likely to be a lengthy and gut-wrenching trial.

The plea follows a disturbing incident in February 2023 when a mother caught McCartney in the act of sexually abusing her daughter.

The man charged following a boat crash that killed one person appeared in court on Thursday, saying he needed more time to think over a plea deal. The boat crash happened in July 2022.  An investigation revealed a 21-foot Yamaha jet boat was traveling north on the river when it suddenly veered toward the shoreline.