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U.S. / NEWS Wed May 7, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad is asking prosecutors in a letter to help him end legal appeals of his conviction and death sentence "so that you can murder this innocent black man." In a two-page letter obtained by The Associated Press on T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 11:43am neoform

FOX News -- A man tried to extort $25,000 from a gas station owner by claiming he was a federal agent who had information linking the businessman to Al Qaeda and threatening to jail him, prosecutors said Friday. George Tabora, 44, was charged with attempted extort.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 11:07am neoform

Washington Post -- Lawyers for former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal argued in an appeals court Thursday that racism by a judge and prosecutors corrupted the 1982 trial at which he was condemned for killing a white police officer. Abu-Jamal, 53, once a radio reporter, has.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 8, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

FOX News -- An HIV-positive man who prosecutors say secretly videotaped sexual encounters with 131 young men was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to entice a 15-year-old boy to engage in sex acts. During his trial, prosecutors alleged Willie Atkins knew.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 12:53am neoform

FOX News -- Prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor count Tuesday against a police officer accused of beating a female bartender in an attack videotaped by a surveillance camera, leaving him still facing a felony charge. Anthony Abbate, a 12-year police veteran, appeare.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 2:11pm neoform

ABC News -- The woman who accused three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team of sexual assault is not being forthcoming with special prosecutors, law enforcement sources close to the case tell ABC News. The accuser has met at least twice with prosecu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 19, 2007 @ 11:29am mrmdc

Miami Herald -- Florida's prosecutors are floating a proposal to the Legislature to give them the power to secretly falsify public court records -- with a judge's approval -- for undercover law enforcement purposes. Spurred by Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fern�.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jan 6, 2007 @ 7:53pm neoform

ABC News -- In a murder trial that began in California this week, a young mother is accused of using arsenic to kill her Marine husband to, according to prosecutors, pay for plastic surgery and a shopping spree... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco prosecutors abandoned a double-murder case Thursday against a 19-year-old Daly City man in connection with a pair of slayings outside a Sunset District pizzeria, saying a key witness now insists authorities have the wrong man. Matthew Owy.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 22, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Authorities have re-arrested three men in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager in Aruba in 2005, based on new evidence in the case, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe were arrested in Aruba at the same t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- Santa Clara County prosecutors filed murder charges Thursday against a convicted killer who allegedly abducted a 19-year-old Cupertino woman from a department store parking lot and murdered her 28 years ago. Prosecutors charged Terry Childs in the Nov... Read More

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

CNN -- The horror faced by two boys abducted in rural Missouri was revealed Tuesday in court, where their captor pleaded guilty. Prosecutors said a video showing him torture one of them underlines why he should die in prison. Michael Devlin offered no apologies.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 19, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

CNN -- Former football star O.J. Simpson will make a court appearance Wednesday, a day after prosecutors lengthened the list of charges against him for an alleged robbery of sports memorabilia at a Las Vegas hotel last week. The 11 criminal counts include two co.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 14, 2007 @ 10:00am neoform

Associated Press -- Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days. Logan County prosecutors say they have not ruled out.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 8:02pm neoform

FOX News -- The trial of suspected Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla opened Monday with federal prosecutors arguing the U.S. citizen and two co-defendants were key players in a terror support cell that provided equipment, money and Islamist fighters to extremist groups.. 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 Dec 28, 2006 @ 12:41pm mrmdc

New York Times -- When they charged 49 convenience store clerks and owners in rural northwest Georgia with selling materials used to make methamphetamine, federal prosecutors declared that they had conclusive evidence. Hidden microphones and cameras, they said, had caught.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 23, 2006 @ 9:18am mrmdc

SF Gate -- San Mateo County prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old drug store pharmacy technician with the repeated molestation, rape and beating of an adolescent girl over four years, including a year during which he allegedly kept her as a secret sex slave in the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 25, 2006 @ 3:52pm mrmdc

NPR -- Federal prosecutors want video footage that Josh Wolf recorded at a demonstration in San Francisco in July 2005. Wolf says he's a journalist who shouldn't be forced to turn over his work. A blogger who once described himself as "an artist, an activist,.. Read More