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U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 22, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- Tim Masters is expected to walk out of prison Tuesday after spending more than nine years incarcerated for murder -- and despite the promise of a new trial, a local district attorney says Masters may no longer be a suspect. After a special prosecutor anno.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The attorney for the two brothers who survived the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo has accused officials there of knowingly maintaining a tiger grotto that "couldn't hold a house cat" and demands that city officials apologize for waging a "cha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 10, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A sheriff's deputy who killed six young people at a house party in Crandon, Wisconsin, apparently died after shooting himself three times in the head with a .40-caliber pistol, the state attorney general said. Initial reports that 20-year-old Tyler Peters.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 9:18am neoform

blogs.tampabay.com -- The Hillsborough State Attorney's Office has decided not to drop charges against Mark O'Hara, who was freed from prison after an appeals court said he deserved a new trial. O'Hara's lawyer, Ira Berman, angrily stormed out of the courthouse after a brie.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- Beleaguered and disbarred former District Attorney Mike Nifong, who prosecuted the Duke University lacrosse rape case, could wind up in jail if a motion is granted asking that criminal charges be filed against him. The three Duke lacrosse players false.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 1:12pm neoform

FOX News -- An attorney for one of three people accused in the disappearance of a 15-year-old girl said they were harboring her from abuse and allowed her to freely come and go from the house where police found her. Police and the girl's parents said that wasn't the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 7:41am neoform

Washington Post -- Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell is warning New York to stop, by the summer, sending private agents into Virginia to look for illegal gun sales, saying that the agents could face legal action. Because of a Virginia law that goes into effect in July.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 13, 2007 @ 11:13am neoform

CBS News -- The local prosecutor who charged three Duke lacrosse players with raping a stripper apologized to the athletes Thursday, acknowledging that the North Carolina attorney general's decision to drop the case was correct. "To the extent that I made judgment.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 11:30am neoform

CNN -- The North Carolina attorney general's office said it will announce a decision Wednesday afternoon in the sexual assault case against three former Duke lacrosse players. Defense sources have told CNN that they expect charges against the men will be drop.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:53am neoform

Alter Net -- The attorney for the NYC police officer accused of killing Sean Bell believes his client will be acquitted. This is not typical attorney bluster; the odds are that he is right. New York Attorney Phillip Karasyk minced no words when a reporter asked abo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 8:54pm neoform

www.montereyherald.com -- In what police describe as a "probable" suicide leap, a prominent Monterey Bay Area attorney fell at least nine floors to his death at the Embassy Suites Hotel Monterey Bay in Seaside the morning before Christmas... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- When Senior Assistant Attorney General Christopher Krueger was leaving home to represent the state in opposing same-sex marriage during a historic hearing before the California Supreme Court in March, his wife kissed him on the lips and said, "Good luck,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Opening up these FLDS communities, authorities reasoned, would make it easier for the abuse of young girls to be discovered. But Utah Attorney General Mark L. Shurtleff and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard have said often that Jeffs's establishment.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 12, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Attorney William Lerach, whose firm once dominated the area of shareholder class action suits and won billions from companies such as Enron, was sentenced to two years in federal prison Monday for conspiring to conceal kickbacks to clients. Lerach, 61,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 9:29am neoform

Washington Post -- The night before the government secured a guilty plea from the manufacturer of the addictive painkiller OxyContin, a senior Justice Department official called the U.S. attorney handling the case and, at the behest of an executive for the drugmaker, urged.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 27, 2007 @ 10:51am neoform

SF Gate -- Former Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong, appearing downcast and contrite, apologized in court Thursday for his aggressive prosecution on rape charges of three former Duke University lacrosse players. He admitted there was "no credible evidence" aga.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 13, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

FOX News -- An attorney who admitted leaking the confidential grand jury testimony of Barry Bonds and other athletes was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison, by far the harshest penalty to result from the government's steroids investigation. Troy.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 11:06pm neoform

FOX News -- Death row inmate Mark Dean Schwab is a "scientific mystery" who should be spared execution so he can be further studied to prevent other pedophiles from raping and killing children, his attorney said in a motion for clemency. Schwab, 38, was sentenced.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 4:31pm neoform

FOX News -- An attorney for a former astronaut wanted to set the record straight Friday: Lisa Nowak didn't wear diapers during the 950-mile road trip to confront a romantic rival. "The biggest lie in this preposterous tale that has been told is that my client drov.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:26am neoform

FOX News -- A police officer has agreed to plead guilty to falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen for taking his dead cousin's identity as a teenager, according to the U.S. attorney's office. A plea agreement released last week says prosecutors will recommend a sen.. Read More