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| Texas woman sentenced to life in stiletto-heel killing Friday, Apr 11, 2014 03:50 PM PDT By Amanda Orr HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas jury sentenced a woman on Friday to life in prison for stabbing her boyfriend to death with the 5-1/2-inch stiletto heel of her shoe during an argument after an alcohol-fueled night out last year. Ana Trujillo, 45, was convicted on Tuesday of killing University of Houston professor Stefan Andersson, 59, who had been stabbed about two dozen times in the face and head during an altercation at his upscale condominium. "I didn't mean to kill him," Trujillo told Judge Brock Thomas after hearing the sentence. Jurors took less than two hours to convict Trujillo of murder and the same jury deliberated for several hours on Friday before deciding that she should serve life in prison. Full Story | Top |
| Why FBI Won't Give Up the Search for Fugitive Robert Fisher Friday, Apr 11, 2014 02:45 PM PDT  Fisher Allegedly Killed Wife, 2 Children Full Story | Top |
| U.S. asks if accused Boston bomber's lawyers to claim mental illness Friday, Apr 11, 2014 02:29 PM PDT  By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. team prosecuting accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked defense attorneys on Friday to notify them by next month if they plan to make the 20-year-old defendant's mental faculties an issue at trial. In a filing in U.S. District Court in Boston, prosecutors asked a judge to require the defense to notify them by May 7 if they plan "to introduce expert evidence relating to a mental disease or defect or any other mental condition of the defendant which bears on either the issue of guilt or the issue of punishment." Attorneys for Tsarnaev, who could face the death penalty if convicted of the April 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264, could argue that the defendant is not wholly responsible for his actions or not deserving of execution, legal experts said. "There aren't a lot of directions you can go as a defense attorney," said Walter Price, a former federal prosecutor. "One of them is always mental and if you think you have the potential to argue that the defendant had diminished mental capacity or insanity, you have to prove it." Federal court rules require defense attorneys to notify prosecutors of their plans to mount such a defense to give the prosecution time to conduct its own expert review. Full Story | Top |
| Why Is a Trans Teen Being Sent to Prison If She Hasn't Been Convicted of a Crime? Friday, Apr 11, 2014 02:16 PM PDT A 16-year-old transgender girl was transferred from a juvenile facility to an adult prison on Tuesday after a violent outburst in January—despite never having been convicted of a crime. The unnamed Connecticut teen has been in state custody, under the Department of Children and Family, since age five and has been receiving hormone treatments to transition. Though no criminal charge has been brought against the teen, she's now under a 72-hour assessment at the York Correctional Institute for women in Niantic, Conn., with the possibility of being transferred to the Manson Correctional Institute, which houses males up to age 20. The prison is expected to decide her final arrangement on Friday. The office of the public defender appointed Aaron Romero to represent the teen in a post-conviction action. Full Story | Top |
| American jailed in Cuba ends hunger strike Friday, Apr 11, 2014 02:07 PM PDT  US contractor Alan Gross ended an eight-day hunger strike Friday to press for his release from prison in Cuba. Gross moved to end his protest after a telephone conversation with his mother, who will turn 92 year old on Tuesday, according to defense attorney Scott Gilbert. "My protest fast is suspended as of today," Gross said in a statement dictated from his Havana prison to Gilbert. "There will be no cause for further intense protest when both governments show more concern for human beings and less malice and derision toward each other," the statement added. Full Story | Top |
| Connecticut ex-governor pleads not guilty Friday, Apr 11, 2014 02:04 PM PDT  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded not guilty Friday to conspiracy and other federal charges in an alleged pursuit of secret consulting roles with two congressional campaigns. Full Story | Top |
| Former Connecticut Governor Rowland pleads not guilty to campaign charges Friday, Apr 11, 2014 01:24 PM PDT  By Richard Weizel NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Former Connecticut Governor John Rowland, who was forced to resign from office a decade ago for corruption, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he violated campaign laws. Rowland, who spent 10 months in prison in 2005 and 2006, told the judge he understood the seven-count indictment filed on Thursday that accused the 56-year-old Republican of trying to conceal payments made to him by two congressional campaigns that he worked on in 2009 and 2012. The candidate in the 2012 campaign, Lisa Wilson-Foley, and her husband, last month pleaded guilty to charges involving illegal campaign contributions. Rowland's attorney, Reid Weingarten, told reporters after the arraignment that Rowland would "aggressively challenge" the charges. Full Story | Top |
| U.S. charges nine in international hacking conspiracy; two extradited from UK Friday, Apr 11, 2014 10:07 AM PDT  Nine people have been charged in an alleged international conspiracy that used malicious software to gather bank account details and use the information to steal millions of dollars, including from accounts held at a Nebraska bank, the Department of Justice said on Friday. Two of the defendants, both Ukrainian nationals who were living in the UK, have been extradited to face charges in Nebraska, the U.S. Justice Department said. A grand jury indicted the defendants in August 2012, but the indictment was not unsealed until Friday. The Zeus virus is a piece of malicious software that has been widely used to steal credit card information and other financial data. Full Story | Top |
| Longtime Berlusconi ally declared fugitive ahead of mafia verdict Friday, Apr 11, 2014 08:45 AM PDT  By Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - A longtime political ally, business associate and friend of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has left the country ahead of a final ruling on mafia collusion charges, a Palermo prosecutor said on Friday. This week the Palermo court issued an arrest warrant for former Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, who co-founded Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in 1994, after prosecutors said they had evidence that he had already left the country and there was a "concrete danger" that he would not return for the verdict due next Tuesday, according to a court document dated April 8. After he could not be tracked down, the court declared Dell'Utri a fugitive, Palermo prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio told Reuters. "Now we will start the procedure for tracking him down abroad, with help from the justice ministry and Interpol." When contacted early on Friday, Dell'Utri's lawyer, Giuseppe Di Peri, said he did not know his client had left the country. Full Story | Top |
| Italy: Berlusconi ally declared fugitive Friday, Apr 11, 2014 07:29 AM PDT MILAN (AP) — A long-time ally of Silvio Berlusconi was declared a fugitive on Friday, days before Italy's highest court hears the final appeal of his conviction for Mafia association. Full Story | Top |
| Man arrested in deadly Florida day care crash Friday, Apr 11, 2014 03:49 AM PDT  WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — Four-year-old Lily Quintus loved princesses, ranch dressing — on everything — and "Star Wars," said her mother, whose pleas and those of others were answered when a driver police say caused the crash that killed the girl at her Florida day care surrendered to authorities. Full Story | Top |
| Big Data’s War on Crime Friday, Apr 11, 2014 02:45 AM PDT  Fourteen years after Cure Violence started in Chicago, studies show its tactics—which treat violence as a "disease" to be contained—are working. It's newest partner? Syria. Full Story | Top |
| Driver arrested in deadly Florida day care crash Friday, Apr 11, 2014 12:36 AM PDT WINTER PARK, Fla. (AP) — Four-year-old Lily Quintus loved princesses, "Star Wars" and ranch dressing — on everything — said her mother whose pleas and those of others were answered when a driver police say caused the crash that killed the girl at her Florida day care surrendered to authorities. Full Story | Top |
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