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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Rapper 'Fat Joe' sentenced to prison on tax charges Rapper 'Fat Joe' sentenced in NJ for tax case Zimmerman murder trial begins: bad language, worse joke Prosecutor opens with Zimmerman's obscenity Man arrested over British family murder in French Alps Jurors in Trayvon Martin case face almost total seclusion

Rapper 'Fat Joe' sentenced to prison on tax charges  Monday, Jun 24, 2013 04:05 PM PDT By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Hip hop artist Joseph "Fat Joe" Cartagena was sentenced on Monday to four months in federal prison and fined $15,000 for failure to file tax returns on more than $3.3 million in income. The 42-year-old rapper faced the possibility of up to two years in prison after pleading guilty in December to two counts of failing to file with the Internal Revenue Service. U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy Waldor gave the Bronx-born rapper credit for paying $718,000 in back taxes prior to his sentencing and for his charitable work. ... Full Story	Top
Rapper 'Fat Joe' sentenced in NJ for tax case  Monday, Jun 24, 2013 03:32 PM PDT NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The former chart-topping rap star known as "Fat Joe" was sentenced to four months in prison Monday over his earlier admission that he failed to file federal income taxes for two years. Full Story	Top
Zimmerman murder trial begins: bad language, worse joke  Monday, Jun 24, 2013 12:59 PM PDT Opening statements in the murder trial of George Zimmerman featured sharply different versions of the events that led to the death of teenager Trayvon Martin and offered major stylistic contrasts, with the prosecutor beginning with curses and the defense attorney telling a joke. Full Story	Top
Prosecutor opens with Zimmerman's obscenity  Monday, Jun 24, 2013 11:53 AM PDT SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors in opening statements Monday that George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin "because he wanted to," not because he had to, while a defense attorney said the neighborhood watch volunteer shot the teen in self-defense to stop him from smashing Zimmerman's head into a concrete sidewalk. Full Story	Top
Man arrested over British family murder in French Alps  Monday, Jun 24, 2013 08:55 AM PDT LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Police in Britain have arrested a man on suspicion of conspiracy to murder a British family of Iraqi origin who were killed in a high-profile murder in France last year, French public prosecutor Eric Maillaud said on Monday. Saad al-Hilli, an Iraqi-born British engineer, was found shot dead in September 2012 with his wife and mother-in-law in their BMW car on a remote mountain road near the village of Chevaline, with the body of a cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, discovered nearby. ... Full Story	Top
Jurors in Trayvon Martin case face almost total seclusion  Sunday, Jun 23, 2013 10:05 PM PDT By David Adams MIAMI (Reuters) - When the Trayvon Martin murder case goes to trial on Monday in Sanford, Florida, the jury will enter a world of almost total seclusion, separated from their friends and families, as well as laptops and smart phones. "They are treated like prisoners," said Richard Gabriel, 53, a trial consultant and president of Los Angeles-based Decision Analysis who worked on the 1995 trial of disgraced former NFL star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted in a double-murder case, and Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her daughter in 2011. ... Full Story	Top

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