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Woman pleads guilty to perjury in '08 Hampton sexual assault case
HAMPTON — A Hampton woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to lying from the witness stand at a Hampton trial five years ago, which led to a man spending nearly four years of his life wrongfully imprisoned. Elizabeth Paige Coast, 23, had been charged with...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution, Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault
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Guatemala full of questions after genocide conviction annulled
MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan high court's decision to annul the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Tuesday revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic Maya people. The...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Justice System, Punishment, Mexico, Crime, Law and Justice
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Judge's Decision Called a Win for Yupik Fishermen
Channel 2 NewsAn important ruling was made Monday in the trial of several Yupik fishermen charged with defying a fishing closure last summer. Defendants had argued they had the right to fish last summer based on religious grounds. While the judge in the case agreed...Tags: Justice System, Court Preliminary, Judges, Fishing, Crime, Law and Justice
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Alleged BGF leader Tavon White will be moved to U.S. custody
Tavon White, the alleged leader of the Black Guerrilla Family at the Baltimore City Detention Center, will await trial in federal custody out of state, his attorney said Friday. A federal judge ordered him moved from state custody Friday after a hearing...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Man's murder conviction is reduced to voluntary manslaughter
After fatally shooting his unwanted houseguest in the head, Robert Charles Redd stuffed the man's body into a recycling bin and wheeled it into a room of his Pico Rivera home. When the stench of death grew too overpowering a couple of days later, Redd...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Gang Activity, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Enron's Jeff Skilling doesn't deserve a break
As if you didn't know this already, we're coddling criminals in America. By that I don't mean the petty drug dealers, three-strikes necklace-snatchers and other mooks filling up our state prisons; many of them are doing hard time. I'm talking about...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System, Countrywide Financial Corp., Punishment, Environmental Issues
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Goldman Sachs wins even when muzzled by the feds
Almost three years ago, when Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid $550 million to settle fraud accusations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the claims was that Goldman misled the bond-insurer ACA Financial Guaranty Corp. in a horribly complex...Tags: Mary Jo White, Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Chicago
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Judge: Texts can be used in Jerome murder trial
Daily American Staff WriterA Somerset County judge will allow text messages between homicide suspect Erin Nicole Everett and her co-defendant, William Stanley Nair, to be used at trial. In April President Judge John M. Cascio heard arguments both for and against the use of the...Tags: Friedens, Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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May 15, In History: An estimated 200 of the 305 undocumented Chinese awaiting deportation
>> 50 Years Ago — BRAWLEY — What is believed to be the first octopus ever to be found in the Salton Sea was discovered Sunday by a 12-year-old Brawley boy. The baby octopus, with tentacles six to eight inches long, was found swimming in...Tags: Paul Miller, Justice System, Extradition, Judges, Deportation
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Blood expert: Someone else's blood found at double-murder scene
SANFORD — A defense blood pattern expert testified Tuesday that someone else's blood — not the victims' and not the defendant's — were in several rooms at the scene of two bloody knife murders in an Altamonte Springs trailer park in...
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Appeals court revives lawsuit of inmate demanding kosher meals
The News Service of FloridaTALLAHASSEE -- A Jewish prisoner's lawsuit seeking a kosher meal plan in Florida prisons can go forward, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. Bruce Rich, an orthodox Jew serving a life sentence at Union Correctional Institution for the murder of his...Tags: Punishment, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief, Prosecution
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Judge refuses to free murder defendant, 86, from mental hospital
Over the objections of Los Angeles County mental health officials, a judge Thursday ordered an 86-year-old murder defendant to remain in the government's care and not be released to a family member. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Norman Shapiro...
Tags: Justice System, Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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