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James Holmes' attorneys again challenge law on insanity pleas
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law governing insanity pleas. Holmes, 25, is accused in the July...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, James Holmes, Trials, Health and Medical Professionals, Prisons
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Trayvon Martin text messages reveal a troubling side
The Miami HeraldMIAMI In the months and days before his shooting death, Trayvon Martin was getting in fights, getting high on marijuana, getting suspended from school and talking with friends about getting a gun, according to cell-phone text messages defense lawyers...Tags: Judges, The Miami Herald, George Zimmerman, Trials, Marijuana Use
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Lawyers in Colorado shooting case challenge insanity defense law
ReutersCENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Lawyers for accused Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes argued on Thursday the state's insanity defense law was unconstitutional because it forces him to cooperate with court-appointed psychiatrists or forfeit the...Tags: Judges, U.S. Supreme Court, James Holmes, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Trials
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Scott Smith, Former Police Officer Once Charged With Murder, Committed Suicide
The Hartford CourantScott Smith's desire to serve his fellow citizens led him to become an emergency medical technician and, ultimately, a police officer in New Milford. But after shooting and killing a fleeing felon in the line of duty in December 1998, his police career...Tags: Judges, Crimes, Trials, Waterbury, New Milford
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FBI reviews death of Chechen man shot during Florida questioning
ReutersORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special Federal Bureau of Investigation team from Washington on Thursday began reviewing the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, a day after he was shot and killed by an agent...Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Labor Legislation
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FBI shooting-review team in Orlando investigates Ibragim Todashev killing
An FBI review team from Washington was in Orlando on Thursday investigating the death of Ibragim Todashev, the Central Florida man shot by an agent while being questioned about a triple murder in Massachusetts and his connection to the Boston Marathon...
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Lawyers in Colorado shooting case to challenge insanity defense law
ReutersBy Keith Coffman DENVER, May 23 (Reuters) - Public defenders representing James Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers in Colorado last summer, will return to court on Thursday to challenge the state's insanity defense law in a bid to try to avoid...Tags: Judges, James Holmes, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Trials, Mental Health
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Arizona jury resumes weighing death penalty in Arias murder case
ReutersBy Tim Gaynor PHOENIX, May 23 (Reuters) - An Arizona jury, weighing whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to death or life in prison for the murder of an ex-boyfriend five years ago, resumed deliberations Thursday, a day after the panel said it was...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Punishment, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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Arias jury remains deadlocked over death sentence
ReutersPHOENIX (Reuters) - Convicted killer Jodi Arias feels betrayed by an Arizona jury that found her guilty of murdering her ex-boyfriend, according to an interview aired on Wednesday shortly before that same jury became deadlocked over whether to sentence...Tags: Justice System, Punishment, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, ABC (tv network)
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Feds: Man shot after attacking agent was being questioned about Boston bombing suspects and 2011 triple murder
While all eyes were focused on Boston in the aftermath of the deadly marathon attack, federal agents in Orlando had quietly turned their attention to a Chechen-born mixed martial arts fighter with ties to the suspected bombers. It wasn't until 27-year-...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon, Murder, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Mixed Martial Arts
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Who is Ibragim Todashev?
Who was Ibragim Todashev? Was he connected in a meaningful way to the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings? Did he play a role in the brutal murders of three people in Massachusetts who had their throats slashed? Or was he, as his friends contend,...
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Friend of Boston bombing suspect questioned in triple homicide
WASHINGTON — A friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev who was shot and killed by an FBI special agent in Orlando, Fla., early Wednesday was being questioned primarily about a 2-year-old triple homicide in Waltham, Mass., and...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, FBI, Justice System, Boston Marathon
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