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Man found guilty in Grand Canyon child abuse case
Wed,29 Feb 2012 05:28 PM PST
Associated Press - A grandfather was found guilty of child abuse Wednesday for forcing his grandsons on grueling hikes in the Grand Canyon in searing August heat, withholding food and water and choking and kicking them during the long treks. Full Story | Top |
Prosecutors to seek death penalty for accused "Alphabet murders"
Wed,29 Feb 2012 04:53 PM PST
Reuters -  SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against "Alphabet Murders" suspect Joseph Naso, a judge said on Wednesday, but the 78-year-old accused serial killer insisted on continuing to act as his own attorney. Naso, who has admitted a penchant for photographing women in nylons and high heels but denies killing anyone, is charged with first-degree murder in the slayings of four northern California prostitutes, two in the 1970s and two more in the 1990s. ...
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Jury selection begins in San Francisco sheriff trial
Wed,29 Feb 2012 04:41 PM PST
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jury selection got underway on Wednesday in the spousal-abuse trial of San Francisco's newly elected sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi, despite failed efforts by the controversial lawman's wife to vindicate him and have charges dropped. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Garrett Wong, in a sometimes heated hearing, rejected a request by an attorney for Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana Lopez, to exclude a video in which she bared a bruise on her arm and said her husband inflicted it. ... Full Story | Top |
Stanford swindle among history's worst: prosecutor
Wed,29 Feb 2012 04:12 PM PST
Reuters -  HOUSTON (Reuters) - Allen Stanford perpetrated one of the biggest thefts in history, a U.S. prosecutor said on Wednesday as the former financier's trial neared its end. Stanford, 61, is on trial in federal court in Houston, accused of running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Jurors began deliberations after hearing final arguments from prosecutors and defense attorneys. "It was one of the greatest thefts in history. Billions of dollars," prosecutor Gregg Costa said as he summed up the government's case. "Fraud is just theft wearing a business suit," he said. ...
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Fate of financier Stanford in jury's hands
Wed,29 Feb 2012 04:09 PM PST
Associated Press - The fate of Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford — accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme that took billions from investors — rests in the hands of the Houston jury, as prosecutors and defense attorneys presented their closing arguments in the financier's fraud trial Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
Guantanamo convict ready to join 'Team America'
Wed,29 Feb 2012 03:27 PM PST
Reuters -  GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A former CIA "ghost prisoner" who grew up near Baltimore admitted to a U.S. war crimes court on Wednesday that he was an al Qaeda money courier and martyr-in-training now prepared to help prosecute other terrorism suspects. Pakistani defendant Maid Khan is remorseful and ready "to join Team America, to do the right thing," his Army lawyer, Lieutenant Colonel Jon Jackson, said after the hearing. "He wishes he had never been involved with al Qaeda ever." After nearly nine years in U.S. ...
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Former security chief at coal mine where 29 died is sentenced
Wed,29 Feb 2012 03:12 PM PST
Reuters - CHARLESTON, West Virginia (Reuters)- - The former security chief at a coal mine where 29 miners died in 2010 was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison for lying to federal agents and obstructing an investigation into the worst accident in the U.S. mining industry in four decades. Hughie Elbert Stover, of Clear Fork, West Virginia, who was convicted last October, had faced a maximum possible sentence of 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in Beckley, West Virginia. ... Full Story | Top |
Prosecutors to seek death penalty against accused Alphabet
Wed,29 Feb 2012 01:46 PM PST
Reuters - SAN RAFAEL, California (Reuters) - Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against "Alphabet Murders" suspect Joseph Naso, a judge revealed on Wednesday, but the accused serial killer, who pleaded not guilty, insisted on continuing to act as his own attorney. Naso, 78, a former photographer, is charged with first-degree murder in the slayings of four northern California prostitutes, two in the 1970s and two more in the 1990s. The killings were dubbed the "Alphabet Murders" because each victim had first and last names beginning with the same letters. ...
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Lawyer wants NY court to nix boosted prison term
Wed,29 Feb 2012 12:53 PM PST
Associated Press - Three judges seemed unimpressed Wednesday with arguments that the First Amendment rights of a civil rights lawyer convicted of aiding a terrorist organization were violated when her prison sentence was quadrupled after she said she could serve the time "standing on my head." Full Story | Top |
Portugal judge: US fugitive won't be extradited
Wed,29 Feb 2012 10:55 AM PST
Associated Press -  Portugal won't extradite American fugitive George Wright to the United States for crimes he committed there four decades ago, after the U.S. ran out of possibilities to appeal the decision to let him stay, a Portuguese court official said Wednesday.
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Protesters Were Arrested Trying to Re-Occupy Zuccotti Park
Wed,29 Feb 2012 07:14 AM PST
The Atlantic Wire - It was just like old times at Zuccotti Park on Tuesday night, as protesters marched to the tiny downtown Manhattan Square with their sleeping bags and police rolled out the paddy wagons. After marching from Union Square to Zuccotti Park -- where Occupy Wall Street began on Sept. 17, 2011 -- demonstrators rolled out sleeping bags and lay down, tweeted Andrew Katz, a Columbia journalism student who frequently covers Occupy. But the cops were waiting with some 13 vans, Katz noted, and toward midnight, they started making arrests. ... Full Story | Top |
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