| | |
| Attorney for accused mobster Bulger asks again for trial delay Friday, Oct 26, 2012 01:27 PM PDT BOSTON (Reuters) - Attorneys for accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger asked a District Court on Friday to delay his trial on 19 counts of murder by eight months until November 2013. Defense attorney J.W. Carney in a court filing repeated his complaint that his team would not have enough time to review 366,000 pages of evidence gathered by prosecutors before the scheduled March 4 trial date. Bulger's attorneys had initially sought a year's delay in the trial. In June, Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler rejected that request, but granted a delay until the current March start date. ... Full Story | Top |
| Did the Neurontin lawsuit fuel health spending? Friday, Oct 26, 2012 12:01 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In 2004, Pfizer, the world's largest drug company, agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $430 million to settle charges it had illegally marketed the epilepsy drug Neurontin for unapproved uses. Now, a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry questions whether the lawsuit ended up fueling spending on other epilepsy drugs instead of curbing so-called off-label prescribing. Doctors are allowed to prescribe drugs for uses that haven't been approved by U.S. health regulators, but companies are prohibited from marketing their products for such purposes. ... Full Story | Top |
| Missing infant found dead, family friend arrested Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:24 AM PDT  Authorities recovered the body of a 10-month-old girl not far from where her grandmother was slain and arrested a family friend who investigators said killed them in a botched ransom kidnapping. Full Story | Top |
| Nevada man tied to suicide sentenced for smuggling Friday, Oct 26, 2012 11:12 AM PDT A Nevada man suspected of helping a woman commit suicide in Mexico in 2009 has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for trying to smuggle a powerful sedative into the United States. Full Story | Top |
| Italy's Berlusconi sentenced to jail for tax fraud Friday, Oct 26, 2012 10:46 AM PDT  MILAN (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years in jail on Friday for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediaset television company. The 76-year-old billionaire media magnate, who was convicted three times during the 1990s in the first degree before being cleared by higher courts, has the right to appeal the ruling two more times before the sentence becomes definitive. That process is likely to be lengthy and he will not be jailed unless he loses the final appeal. ... Full Story | Top |
| Berlusconi Has Been Sentenced to Four Years in Prison Friday, Oct 26, 2012 07:34 AM PDT  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty of tax evasion and sentenced to four years in prison by a Milan court on Friday, Bloomberg News reports. That's two less years than what the Italian seismologists who were found guilty for not predicting the L'Aquila earthquake. The six seismologists who didn't sufficiently predict the L'Aquila earthquake were (controversially) sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter on October 22. Italian courts, sometimes we just don't get you. Full Story | Top |
| Scientist being sentenced in Utah for trade theft Friday, Oct 26, 2012 06:49 AM PDT A sentencing hearing for a scientist who has pleaded guilty in Utah's first industrial espionage case turned on testimony Thursday about the damage to a chemical company. Full Story | Top |
| Ivory Coast illegally arrested, tortured more than 200: Amnesty Friday, Oct 26, 2012 05:54 AM PDT  ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Police and soldiers in Ivory Coast have illegally detained and tortured more than 200 people including supporters of former President Laurent Gbagbo, following a series of armed attacks that began in August, Amnesty International said on Friday. U.N. investigators said earlier this month that exiled members of Gbagbo's former government and military living in neighbouring Ghana were behind the raids, which have targeted police and army installations as well as key infrastructure. ... Full Story | Top |
| Jury done for day in Ohio teen's Craigslist trial Friday, Oct 26, 2012 05:20 AM PDT  The case of a teenager accused of participating in the slayings of three men lured by phony Craigslist job offers went to a jury Thursday, with prosecutors portraying him as a full accomplice in the crimes and his defense attorney arguing he was a scared child stuck in a horrible situation. Full Story | Top |
| Californians asked to end death penalty - to save money Thursday, Oct 25, 2012 10:07 PM PDT  SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON, California (Reuters) - Convicted murderer Douglas Stankewitz, who has spent more than three decades on death row, isn't pinning his hopes of survival on a referendum next month to abolish the death penalty in California - he knows that even if voters reject the measure, he may never be executed. "They can't kill me because the system is messed up so bad," Stankewitz, California's longest-serving death row inmate, told Reuters in an interview at San Quentin State Prison. "The death penalty is a joke. ... Full Story | Top |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment