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U.S. / NEWS Tue Dec 4, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A Missouri prosecutor said Monday no charges would be sought in the case of a teen who hanged herself last year after chatting on MySpace, although he said adults should have prevented the tragedy. Megan Meier, 13, killed herself after receiving a critica.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

USA Today -- The prosecutor in one of the "Jena Six" cases agreed to try the teen at the center of the controversy as a juvenile, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said late Wednesday. The announcement again raised the hope that Mychal Bell, 17, who has been incarcera.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 3:31pm neoform

Associated Press -- Disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal contempt charges stemming from his failure to turn over complete DNA testing results during the now-discredited Duke lacrosse rape case. If found in contempt, Nifong could.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 12:12am neoform

CNN -- His law license lost and reputation in tatters, Mike Nifong seemingly can fall no further. The veteran prosecutor announced he would step down July 13, but late Monday, a judge said he would order the Durham County district attorney to leave his duties.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 16, 2007 @ 7:12pm neoform

CNN -- A disciplinary committee says North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong will be disbarred for his handling of the Duke University lacrosse rape case. "This matter has been a fiasco. There's no doubt about it," said committee chairman F. Lane Williamson... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 2:17pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A prosecutor dropped charges against a woman who was arrested for staring at and making faces at a police dog. After all, the prosecutor reasoned, the four-legged witness can't testify. Jayna Hutchinson was about to go on trial this week on charges of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 1:06pm neoform

SF Gate -- A man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 should have to serve out the widely criticized mandatory term, a prosecutor told a judge Wednesday. A lawyer for Genarlow Wilson, now 21, asked.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform

USA Today -- A nursing student told women he met on an online dating site that he was a doctor, an astronaut or spy in a ruse to lure them out so he could drug and rape them, a prosecutor said Monday. Jeffrey J. Marsalis, the 34-year-old on-and-off student, met six.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 22, 2006 @ 9:46am mrmdc

CBS News -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to throw her three children into San Francisco Bay instead of herself, making her guilty of murder, a prosecutor said during closing arguments at the woman's trial... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:49pm neoform

USA Today -- With a federal indictment in place, state charges will be dismissed against two Egyptian-born students who were stopped last month with what authorities said were pipe bombs, a prosecutor said Tuesday. "I plan to dismiss the charges in favor of federal.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 2:45pm neoform

FOX News -- The prosecutor in the case of a Liberian native charged with repeatedly raping and molesting a 7-year-old girl said Monday that he is filing an appeal of a controversial judge's ruling that dismissed all charges because an interpreter who spoke the suspec.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 12:48pm neoform

CNN -- As prosecutor Mike Nifong pushed forward with the Duke lacrosse rape case, a police investigator expressed concerns that there was a lack of evidence. When he learned that Nifong planned to seek indictments, police investigator Benjamin Himan testified.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 10:03am neoform

Yahoo News -- A special prosecutor could not have had worse timing for telling a judge he'd cleared him of theft for taking a college student's ringing cell phone during a class. Special prosecutor Rob Ives had just delivered his report Friday in Tippecanoe Superior.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 25, 2007 @ 4:02pm neoform

FOX News -- More than four years after a beautiful actress was shot to death at Phil Spector's hilltop castle, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that at times the music producer is "sinister and deadly." Spector appeared tense during the televised proceeding as t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 2:12pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A judge and a prosecutor face disciplinary hearings after admitting to having sex in the judge's chambers and being together in shower facilities at the Douglas County courthouse. Grafton M. Biddle, 57, resigned his position on Dec. 18 after rumors beg.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Apr 11, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

Washington Post -- In an increasingly complex legal world, Robert F. Horan Jr. keeps it old school. He typically shows up for hearings, and trials, by himself -- no legal assistants, no junior prosecutors. A legal pad. A case file. Maybe a law book. Fairfax County's chie.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 9:57pm neoform

USA Today -- The prosecution will seek a sentence of "substantially less" than 20 years for Australian David Hicks, a Guantanamo detainee who pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related charge this week, the chief prosecutor for the military tribunals said Thursday. The.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 21, 2006 @ 4:08pm mrmdc

CNN -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to kill her three children instead of herself, making her guilty of murder, a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments at the woman's trial... Read More