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Ex-Senator acquitted on campaign finance charge
Thu,31 May 2012 07:15 PM PDT
Reuters -  GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former Senator John Edwards' affair and child out of wedlock derailed a political rise that put him on the Democrats' 2004 White House ticket, but the one-time trial lawyer held his head high on Thursday after a North Carolina jury delivered his most personal victory yet. Twelve jurors in the state Edwards represented in the U.S. Senate from 1999 to 2005 acquitted him on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions given during his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination four years ago. U.S. ...
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Edwards acquitted on 1 count, mistrial on others
Thu,31 May 2012 06:01 PM PDT
Associated Press -  John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors acquitted him on one of six charges but were unable to decide whether he misused money from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress while he ran for president.
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Woman found not guilty in Ore. baby-death trial
Thu,31 May 2012 05:36 PM PDT
Associated Press - A jury took less than two hours Thursday to acquit an Oregon woman on trial for the second time on allegations that she killed her newborn son, in a case in which no remains were found and defense attorneys argued the woman was never pregnant. Full Story | Top |
Closing statements made in Philadelphia church pedophilia trial
Thu,31 May 2012 04:48 PM PDT
Reuters -  PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The prosecution in the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Church sex abuse trial said on Thursday an accused monsignor covered up cases of pedophile priests to avoid scandal, but his defense attorney said his efforts to handle the problem were stymied by the church's hierarchy. Monsignor William Lynn, who in his 12-year job as secretary of the clergy supervised hundreds of priests, is accused of conspiracy and child endangerment and, if convicted, faces the possibility of 28 years in prison. Prosecutors say Lynn, 61, the highest-ranking U.S. ...
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Ex-Senator Edwards acquitted on campaign finance charge
Thu,31 May 2012 04:18 PM PDT
Reuters -  GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator John Edwards was acquitted on Thursday on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions, and the judge declared a mistrial on five other counts because the jury was deadlocked. The jury's decision came on the ninth day of deliberations and marked yet another dramatic turn of events for the one-time politician who rose to become the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 2004, only to see his career ruined by scandal four years later. ...
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Judge rejects Ohio Amish hate crime law challenge
Thu,31 May 2012 12:34 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The religious beliefs of victims of alleged beard- and hair-cutting attacks in Ohio Amish country are what matters in the case, not those of the defendants, a federal judge ruled Thursday in rejecting the defendants' challenges of the federal hate crimes law.
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U.S. man jailed for 1968 hijack to Cuba to be re-sentenced
Thu,31 May 2012 12:18 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man serving a 15-year prison term for participating in a 1968 hijacking of a Pan American airliner to Cuba was improperly denied the possibility of parole and must be re-sentenced, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday. A three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said that at the time of Luis Armando Pena Soltren's crime, defendants were entitled to possible early release through the parole process. ... Full Story | Top |
Young woman sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan
Thu,31 May 2012 10:49 AM PDT
Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudanese woman, believed to be around 20, has been sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery, and is being held near Khartoum, shackled in prison with her baby son, rights groups and lawyers said on Thursday. Campaigners condemned the ruling, saying it violated international standards and raised concerns that Sudan might start applying sharia, or Islamic law, more strictly following the secession of mostly non-Muslim South Sudan last year. The woman, Intisar Sharif Abdalla, was sentenced by the Ombada criminal court on April 22, court documents seen by Reuters showed. ... Full Story | Top |
Jurors in Edwards case finish 8th day of talks
Wed,30 May 2012 03:52 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The judge overseeing the campaign corruption trial of former-U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards sent the jury home Wednesday after eight days of talks without a verdict and released the four alternate jurors, who have garnered attention for their matching shirts but have not participated in the deliberations.
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Ex-Cameron aide arrested, charged with perjury
Wed,30 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested and charged with perjury Wednesday in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker — the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers.
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Attorneys want some Sandusky sex-abuse charges dropped
Wed,30 May 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters -  BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Attorneys for former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually abusing 10 boys, urged a judge on Wednesday to toss out the charges for three of the alleged victims. Defense attorney Joe Amendola told Judge Joseph Cleland the charges involving Victims 2, 6 and 8 should not be tried because evidence was hearsay and not allowed. But prosecutors in the high-profile case argued the circumstantial evidence was strong and should be presented to the jury when it convenes next month. ...
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Hedge fund boss found guilty in $600 million fraud
Wed,30 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Magnus Peterson, the boss of collapsed hedge fund business Weavering, has been found guilty of defrauding investors and ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. London's High Court ruled that Peterson, manager of the Weavering Macro Fixed Income fund, deceived clients and breached his duty of care to investors with a strategy that could not cope with the vagaries of markets at the height of the global credit crisis. ... Full Story | Top |
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