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Thursday, April 19, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Man extradited to NY to face computer charges Increasingly nasty skirmishes see 150 arrested during Quebec student protest Mali's military frees arrested officials Sun journalist arrested in British corruption probe Prosecutors to seek death penalty for ex-Marine Iraq's Kurdish leader meets fugitive countryman US lawmakers seek data on anti-Sikh crime Netflix's Arrested Development strategy: Revolutionary? 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 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 Man extradited to NY to face computer charges Thu,19 Apr 2012 08:21 PM PDT Associated Press - A man has been brought to New York from Estonia to face charges he steered millions of computers worldwide toward certain websites and advertisements. Full Story Top Increasingly nasty skirmishes see 150 arrested during Quebec student protest Thu,19 Apr 2012 04:46 PM PDT Associated Press - GATINEAU, Que. - Increasingly nasty skirmishes in Quebec between police and student protesters resulted in 150 arrests in one spot today. Full Story Top Mali's military frees arrested officials Thu,19 Apr 2012 04:27 PM PDT Reuters - BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's military has released all the senior political and army officials it arrested earlier this week, the army leaders behind last month's coup said on Thursday. Separately, neighboring Senegal said Mali's ousted former president, Amadou Toumani Toure, was on a plane heading for the capital Dakar. Senegal revealed this week that Toure been sheltering in its embassy in the Malian capital, Bamako. Toure fled his palace on March 22. ... Full Story Top Sun journalist arrested in British corruption probe Thu,19 Apr 2012 12:55 PM PDT AFP - A journalist from Britain's best-selling The Sun newspaper, reportedly its royal editor, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of illegally paying public officials, police said. Full Story Top Prosecutors to seek death penalty for ex-Marine Thu,19 Apr 2012 12:04 PM PDT Associated Press - An Oklahoma judge says prosecutors can seek the death penalty against a former Marine charged with killing four people, including a prostitute featured on HBO's "Cathouse" series. Full Story Top Iraq's Kurdish leader meets fugitive countryman Thu,19 Apr 2012 09:49 AM PDT AFP - Iraq's fugitive vice president, who has been sheltering in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, following a political dispute in Baghdad on Thursday met the region's leader Massud Barzani. Full Story Top US lawmakers seek data on anti-Sikh crime Thu,19 Apr 2012 08:38 AM PDT AFP - Nearly 100 US lawmakers appealed Thursday for a compiling of data on hate crimes against Sikh Americans, seeking better ways to combat racially motivated attacks against the community. Full Story Top Netflix's Arrested Development strategy: Revolutionary? Thu,19 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT The Week - When the cult-hit comedy is resurrected for its fanatically anticipated fourth season, the streaming video juggernaut will make all 10 episodes available at once Full Story Top 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 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

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