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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Judge: Texas man can be tried in childhood crime US Army sex crime prosecutor faces groping allegation A Gadhafi son is extradited to Libya Fugitive Kadhafi playboy son handed back to Libya Woman asleep in Bieber's rented Ga. home arrested Justice Served in the Senate Pro-Moscow protest leader arrested in Ukraine's Donetsk General to admit guilt on 3 counts; denies assault Video of ex-al-Qaida spokesman shown to NY jurors Man may face adult murder case for childhood crime

Judge: Texas man can be tried in childhood crime  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 07:07 PM PST CONROE, Texas (AP) — In the years that followed the 1998 attack that horribly burned her then-8-year-old son, Colleen Middleton felt fear and frustration over the possibility that the person she believed was responsible would never be taken to trial. Full Story	Top
US Army sex crime prosecutor faces groping allegation  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 05:48 PM PST The US Army's top prosecutor overseeing sexual assault cases has been suspended over allegations he groped a female lawyer working for him and tried to kiss her, officers said. The suspension of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Morse marks the latest embarrassing setback for the US military as it battles a sexual assault crisis that has sparked calls for a radical overhaul of its judicial system. No charges have been filed against Morse, who supervises the army's special victim prosecutors that handle sexual assault, domestic abuse and crimes against children cases. The alleged incident took place in 2011 in a hotel room at a sexual assault legal conference in Alexandria, Virginia, officials said, before Morse was named to his current job. Full Story	Top
A Gadhafi son is extradited to Libya  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 02:08 PM PST TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — One of Moammar Gadhafi's sons, al-Saadi, was extradited on Thursday to Libya from Niger, where he had taken refuge as his father's regime crumbled in 2011, bringing cheers from Libyans as the government prepares to prosecute him for his alleged role in trying to suppress the uprising against Gadhafi's rule. Full Story	Top
Fugitive Kadhafi playboy son handed back to Libya  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 01:03 PM PST A son of late dictator Moamer Kadhafi was extradited Thursday from Niger to Libya, where he is accused of murder and repression during the 2011 uprising that ousted and kills his father. "Saadi Kadhafi was handed over to the Libyan government on March 6. Kadhafi, who once played professional football in Italy, would be held in accordance with "international standards regarding the treatment of prisoners," the government said. The Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade, a militia of former rebels, posted five photographs on Facebook of a disconsolate-looking Saadi wearing a blue prison uniform having his head and beard shaved. Full Story	Top
Woman asleep in Bieber's rented Ga. home arrested  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 12:30 PM PST ATLANTA (AP) — A woman found sleeping in a bedroom of an Atlanta-area home rented by pop star Justin Bieber told officers that she had come to the house for the singer's birthday party and realized she was too late for it, according to a police report. Full Story	Top
Justice Served in the Senate  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 10:15 AM PST Republicans and the seven Democrats who joined them to oppose a convicted cop-killer's defense attorney joining the Justice Department voted with their conscience, not racism. Full Story	Top
Pro-Moscow protest leader arrested in Ukraine's Donetsk  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 06:53 AM PST The leader of the most persistent pro-Moscow protest movement in eastern Ukraine was arrested at his home in the city of Donetsk on Thursday, a Reuters journalist who was with police on the raid said. Around 10 members of the SBU security service arrested Pavel Gubarev at his apartment in a five-storey Soviet-era block in the eastern city, on charges of "infringing the territorial integrity and independence of the state". Gubarev, a Donetsk businessman, had led protesters who blockaded the regional administration building and flew the Russian flag until they were removed on Thursday. Full Story	Top
General to admit guilt on 3 counts; denies assault  Thursday, Mar 06, 2014 06:23 AM PST RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Army general accused of sexual assault was set to plead guilty to three lesser charges Thursday in a move that his lawyer says will strengthen his position going into trial. Full Story	Top
Video of ex-al-Qaida spokesman shown to NY jurors  Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 11:47 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors at the Manhattan trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law watched video of al-Qaida's leaders threaten America before and after the Sept. 11 attacks as the government launched its case against the terror group's one-time spokesman, a presentation dismissed by a defense lawyer as movie-like theatrics. Full Story	Top
Man may face adult murder case for childhood crime  Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 11:46 PM PST CONROE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man is waiting to learn whether he'll be tried as an adult for allegedly dousing a boy with gasoline and setting him on fire when he was a teenager in 1998. Full Story	Top

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