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Loughner to plead guilty in Arizona shooting spree
Sat,4 Aug 2012 08:06 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jared Loughner, the man accused of killing six people and wounding then-U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in 2011, is set to plead guilty in a Tucson court on Tuesday, a person in Washington familiar with the case said. The source confirmed that the federal government believed Loughner was now competent to stand trial and will argue that in court on Tuesday. Loughner is willing to change his plea to guilty at the previously scheduled hearing, the source said. ... Full Story | Top |
Report: Jared Lee Loughner to Plead Guilty in Tucson Shooting
Sat,4 Aug 2012 04:01 PM PDT
National Journal - Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged gunman in the January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to the attack that killed six people and injured 13, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. The plea could result in a life sentence for Loughner, according to the AP. In 2011, Loughner pled not guilty to 49 charges surrounding the attacks. Full Story | Top |
Report: Jared Lee Loughner to Plead Guilty in Tuscan Shooting
Sat,4 Aug 2012 03:48 PM PDT
National Journal - Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged gunman in the January 8, 2011 shooting in Tuscan, Arizona, is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to the attack that killed six people and injured 13, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. The plea could result in a life sentence for Loughner, according to the AP. In 2011, Loughner pled not guilty to 49 charges surrounding the attacks. Full Story | Top |
Vermont man arrested after crushing police cruisers with tractor
Fri,3 Aug 2012 11:37 AM PDT
Reuters - LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A Vermont man was arrested after allegedly running over seven police cruisers with a tractor, police said on Friday. Roger Pion, 34, of Newport, Vermont now faces seven counts of unlawful mischief and three other charges after being arrested by state police for crushing cruisers belonging to the Orleans County Sheriff's Department in the town of Derby on Thursday. "I felt like I was in a monster jam rally or something," said Rene Morris, an eyewitness told local television station WCAX. ... Full Story | Top |
Parents found guilty of murdering daughter in UK
Fri,3 Aug 2012 11:01 AM PDT
Associated Press -  The girl was murdered by her Pakistani parents for her Western ways. And it was her little sister who bravely told jurors how her mother and father suffocated the 17-year-old with a plastic bag — gripping testimony that led to her parents' murder conviction on Friday.
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Missouri priest to plead guilty in child porn case
Thu,2 Aug 2012 11:17 AM PDT
Associated Press - A Roman Catholic priest in Kansas City is expected to plead guilty Thursday in a federal child pornography case that also led to charges against the diocese bishop for failing to report suspected child abuse. Full Story | Top |
Judge rejects second request for mistrial in Drew Peterson case
Thu,2 Aug 2012 09:50 AM PDT
Reuters -  JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - A judge rejected a second request to declare a mistrial in the case of former suburban Chicago policeman Drew Peterson accused of killing his third wife, who was found dead in a dry bathtub in 2004. There is little physical evidence linking Peterson to the death of Kathleen Savio, so prosecutors have been trying to introduce testimony this week that Peterson made threats and tried to hire a hit man. Defense attorneys have objected to the testimony as hearsay, and have asked twice for a mistrial. ...
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Nearly 1.2 Million Forensic Requests To Publicly Funded Crime Labs Were Backlogged At Yearend 2009, Unchanged From 2008
Thu,2 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT
PR Newswire - WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At the end of 2009, the nation's publicly funded crime labs had an estimated backlog of 1.2 million requests for forensic services, relatively unchanged from the backlog at yearend 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. A request was defined as backlogged if it had not been completed within 30 days.In 2009, the 411 federal, state, county and municipal labs began the year with more than 1.0 million backlogged requests and received an additional estimated 4. ... Full Story | Top |
Two sentenced in plot to smuggle guns to Mexico's Zetas cartel
Wed,1 Aug 2012 07:05 PM PDT
Reuters - MCALLEN, Texas (Reuters) - Two men were sentenced to 70 and 80 months in prison on Wednesday in a foiled plot to smuggle 147 assault rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition to Mexico's Zetas drug cartel, federal officials in Texas said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized the AK-47 rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition and 269 ammunition clips during an undercover investigation in May 2010, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
Drew Peterson lawyers to decide on pursuing mistrial request
Wed,1 Aug 2012 03:39 PM PDT
Reuters -  JOLIET, Illinois (Reuters) - Defense attorneys will decide by Thursday morning whether to pursue a request for a mistrial for former Chicago-area police officer Drew Peterson, who is charged with killing his third wife. The defense asked for a mistrial on Wednesday, saying the prosecution had improperly introduced evidence. It was the second mistrial request in as many days in the murder trial before Will County Judge Edward Burmila. Defense lawyers want the charges against Peterson dropped and the judge to declare he cannot be retried on them. ...
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Levi Aron Does Everyone a Favor by Pleading Guilty to Murdering Leiby Kletzky
Wed,1 Aug 2012 03:33 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  The good thing about Wednesday's news that Levi Aron would plead guilty to last summer's horrific murder of an 8-year-old Brooklyn boy is that the boy's family and the public don't have to relive the whole horrific ordeal again in a trial. That was why the family of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky agreed to the plea deal, reports local CBS affiliate 1010 WINS. ...
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Boston priest arrested on child pornography charges
Wed,1 Aug 2012 02:38 PM PDT
Reuters -  BOSTON (Reuters) - A South Boston priest was charged on Wednesday with possessing and distributing child pornography using a computer in his parish's rectory, authorities said. Andrew J. Urbaniak was arraigned in South Boston District Court on one count of possession of child pornography and one charge of distributing images of a child in the nude, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Police arrested Urbaniak, 39, at Our Lady of Czestochowa, a Polish church in the Archdiocese of Boston, on Tuesday. ...
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