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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Police: SC McDonald's employee arrested after spitting in 2 customers' sweet tea Body found might be Marine's wife; woman arrested The Great 'Arrested Development' Dump Netflix to Release All 10 Upcoming 'Arrested Development' Shows at Once Montenegrin journalist given prison term for libel Science lacking on whether death penalty deters murder MAP: What States Allow the Death Penalty? Ivory Coast ex-first lady's lawyer arrested Montenegrin journalist given prison term for libel Three arrested over Chinese family deaths in UK Clemens jury selection like slow baseball game Report: Deterrent effect of death penalty unclear Breivik wants death penalty or acquittal Does the Death Penalty Deter Crime? Studies are Inconclusive Facts Don't Inform Death-Penalty Debate, Panel Finds Ohio's Death Penalty Moratorium Didn't Last Very Long Jury selection to resume in Somali piracy case Cleric Abu Qatada arrested in new deportation bid Amnesty: Saudi activist sentenced to 4 years Tom Petty gets guitars back, security guard arrested Final jury selection in Somali piracy case delayed 7 more potential jurors dismissed in Edwards case Dog days in jury selection for Clemens retrial Top officials arrested in post-coup Mali, premier named Former TSA officer admits role in painkiller trafficking ring, faces up to 20 years in prison Police: SC McDonald's employee arrested after spitting in 2 customers' sweet tea Wed,18 Apr 2012 07:12 PM PDT Associated Press - SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. - A South Carolina county's deputies say a McDonald's employee spit in two customers' cups of iced tea after the drinks were returned because they weren't sweet enough. Full Story Top Body found might be Marine's wife; woman arrested Wed,18 Apr 2012 03:11 PM PDT Associated Press - A Camp Pendleton Marine being investigated in the disappearance of the wife of another Marine in Southern California has been charged with stealing an assault weapon. Full Story Top The Great 'Arrested Development' Dump Wed,18 Apr 2012 01:44 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The Call Sheet sifts through the day's glut of Hollywood news to find the stories even non-industry types care about. Today: Netflix goes all in, Bravo renews your favorite show, and Showtime has a new project. Full Story Top Netflix to Release All 10 Upcoming 'Arrested Development' Shows at Once Wed,18 Apr 2012 01:37 PM PDT Mashable - Netflix is planning to simultaneously release the entire fourth season of Arrested Development "sometime next year," the company announced at an event in Las Vegas Tuesday evening. Full Story Top Montenegrin journalist given prison term for libel Wed,18 Apr 2012 12:52 PM PDT Reuters - BELGRADE (Reuters) - A court in Montenegro ordered a journalist to serve four months in prison for libel on Wednesday in a case that could damage the country's reputation for media freedom as it prepares for talks on joining the European Union. The case stems from a 2007 report in the Montenegrin weekly Monitor in which journalist Petar Komnenic alleged that authorities in the Adriatic country had placed a number of senior judges under illegal surveillance. Komnenic was convicted of libel in February 2011 and ordered to pay a fine of 3,000 euros ($3,900) or serve four months in jail. ... Full Story Top Science lacking on whether death penalty deters murder Wed,18 Apr 2012 12:40 PM PDT AFP - Scientific research to date provides no useful conclusion on whether the death penalty reduces or boosts the murder rate, said a report by the US National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday. Full Story Top MAP: What States Allow the Death Penalty? Wed,18 Apr 2012 11:32 AM PDT National Journal - Full Story Top Ivory Coast ex-first lady's lawyer arrested Wed,18 Apr 2012 10:42 AM PDT AFP - The lawyer for Ivory Coast's firebrand ex-first lady Simone Gbagbo, Rodrigue Dadje, has been charged with threatening national security and jailed, a colleague said Wednesday. Full Story Top Montenegrin journalist given prison term for libel Wed,18 Apr 2012 09:37 AM PDT Reuters - BELGRADE (Reuters) - A court in Montenegro ordered a journalist to serve four months in prison for libel on Wednesday in a case that could damage the country's reputation for media freedom as it prepares for talks on joining the European Union. The case stems from a 2007 report in the Montenegrin weekly Monitor in which journalist Petar Komnenic alleged that authorities in the Adriatic country had placed a number of senior judges under illegal surveillance. Komnenic was convicted of libel in February 2011 and ordered to pay a fine of 3,000 euros ($3,900) or serve four months in jail. ... Full Story Top Three arrested over Chinese family deaths in UK Wed,18 Apr 2012 09:29 AM PDT AFP - Police investigating the murder of a family of four in Britain almost a year ago arrested three people Wednesday in connection with the case. Full Story Top Clemens jury selection like slow baseball game Wed,18 Apr 2012 08:12 AM PDT Associated Press - Jury selection in the Roger Clemens perjury case is dragging on like a midsummer baseball snoozer that features drawn out at-bats without any action. In this case, the halting, methodical legal process involves hour-long rounds of questions of potential jurors, with no end in sight. Full Story Top Report: Deterrent effect of death penalty unclear Wed,18 Apr 2012 07:59 AM PDT Associated Press - A new report says there is no reliable research on whether the death penalty has any effect on the murder rate, more than 35 years since the Supreme Court allowed the resumption of executions in the United States. Full Story Top Breivik wants death penalty or acquittal Wed,18 Apr 2012 07:01 AM PDT Associated Press - Norway's prison terms are "pathetic," mass killer Anders Behring Breivik declared Wednesday in court, claiming the death penalty or a full acquittal were the "only logical outcomes" for his massacre of 77 people. Full Story Top Does the Death Penalty Deter Crime? Studies are Inconclusive Wed,18 Apr 2012 06:35 AM PDT National Journal - We still don't know enough about whether the death penalty works to deter crime, and policymakers should ignore research that claims to say whether it does, the National Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Facts Don't Inform Death-Penalty Debate, Panel Finds Wed,18 Apr 2012 05:01 AM PDT National Journal - We still don't know enough about whether the death penalty works to deter crime, and policymakers should ignore research that claims to say whether it does, the National Academy of Sciences said on Wednesday. Full Story Top Ohio's Death Penalty Moratorium Didn't Last Very Long Wed,18 Apr 2012 03:32 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The state of Ohio plans to execute convicted killer Mark Wiles on Wednesday, ending an unofficial ban on the practice that lasted all of six months. Wiles will be executed by lethal injection for murdering a 15-year-old boy during a robbery of a farmhouse in 1985. He will be the 47th person executed in Ohio since the state resumed the death penalty in 1999. Full Story Top Jury selection to resume in Somali piracy case Wed,18 Apr 2012 12:59 AM PDT Associated Press - Jury selection will resume in the federal trial of a Somali man accused of being a pirate negotiator. Full Story Top Cleric Abu Qatada arrested in new deportation bid Wed,18 Apr 2012 12:19 AM PDT AFP - British authorities have re-arrested radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada and begun a fresh bid to deport him, saying they had resolved concerns about his treatment in Jordan. Full Story Top Amnesty: Saudi activist sentenced to 4 years Wed,18 Apr 2012 12:05 AM PDT Associated Press - Amnesty International says a Saudi Arabian court has convicted a prominent rights activist of anti-state crimes and sentenced him to four years in prison. Full Story Top Tom Petty gets guitars back, security guard arrested Tue,17 Apr 2012 05:39 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The waiting might have been the hardest part, but rockers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have gotten back the missing guitars they were seeking and police said on Tuesday a security guard has been arrested on suspicion of stealing the instruments. The five guitars - which included Petty's 1967, 12-string Rickenbacker made of maple - were reported stolen on Thursday from a sound studio in Culver City, west of Los Angeles, and the band announced it would pay a $7,500 reward for information leading to their recovery. ... Full Story Top Final jury selection in Somali piracy case delayed Tue,17 Apr 2012 04:57 PM PDT Associated Press - Jury selection in the case of a Somali man accused of being a pirate negotiator is expected to continue Wednesday. Full Story Top 7 more potential jurors dismissed in Edwards case Tue,17 Apr 2012 04:05 PM PDT Associated Press - The federal judge overseeing the John Edwards campaign-finance trial on Tuesday dismissed seven more potential jurors as part of the process to select 12 people who can fairly weigh the evidence against the former Democratic presidential contender. Full Story Top Dog days in jury selection for Clemens retrial Tue,17 Apr 2012 04:02 PM PDT Associated Press - One potential juror was questioned for 68 minutes. Another for 64 — and he didn't even make the cut. Along the way, Roger Clemens' lawyer offered some clues as to his strategy once testimony gets under way, including a challenge to whether Congress had a legitimate purpose in holding the hearing at which the seven-time Cy Young Award winner testified — and whether Clemens' testimony was voluntary. Full Story Top Top officials arrested in post-coup Mali, premier named Tue,17 Apr 2012 03:23 PM PDT AFP - Armed men rounded up top Malian officials including two presidential hopefuls in a show of force by a junta that seized power last month, as the interim leader named a Microsoft executive as prime minister. Full Story Top Former TSA officer admits role in painkiller trafficking ring, faces up to 20 years in prison Tue,17 Apr 2012 02:21 PM PDT Associated Press - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A former Transportation Security Administration officer has admitted his role in a painkiller trafficking ring, becoming the fourth law enforcement officer to plead guilty in the case. Full Story Top

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