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

SF Gate -- Jurors in the Hans Reiser murder trial left the Alameda County courthouse this afternoon without reaching a verdict and will return next week to resume deliberations. The panelists left Superior Court in downtown Oakland shortly after 3 p.m. They have.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 4, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

SF Gate -- Traces of blood that police say matched Nina Reiser's and were found in her estranged husband's home and car could have been left as a result of intimate contact, a DNA expert testified Thursday in the murder trial of Hans Reiser. Forensic scientist Ke.. 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 Wed May 23, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- In the cool and beflagged small courtroom in Jena, Louisiana, three black schoolboys - Robert Bailey, Theodore Shaw and Mychal Bell - are about to go on trial for a playground fight that could see them jailed for between 30 and 50 years. Jena, about 22.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 1, 2007 @ 10:21pm neoform

News.com.au -- A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who was acquitted on Friday night of multiple rape was locked up for almost a year awaiting trial. Patrick Waring, then a 15-year-old Catholic college student, was dragged out of bed by police a year ago and refused bail on nothing bu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 9:15pm neoform

SF Gate -- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the government does not have to turn over evidence from the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui to family members of those killed in the terrorist attacks. The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 26, 2007 @ 4:47pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- A TV cameraman is getting an inside view of life at Guantanamo Bay prison - only he is unable to get out and tell the story. Sami al-Hajj, of the Al-Jazeera TV network, was stopped at the Afghanistan border by Pakistani authorities in December 2001, tu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 18, 2007 @ 12:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced Saturday to 8 years in military prison — the longest sentence yet in the case. Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, 22, also was reduced in rank and given.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 7, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The court-martial of a U.S. Army officer, who publicly refused to fight in Iraq and criticized the war, could end in a mistrial, the presiding military judge said on Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- A San Francisco car enthusiast goes on trial Monday for an 18-year-old killing in which the man who confessed to pulling the trigger will never serve a day in jail. Instead, he'll be the prosecution's star witness when the murder trial gets under way i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 15, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- O.J. Simpson must face trial on kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges stemming from a suspected sports memorabilia heist, a justice of the peace ruled Wednesday. Defense attorneys had argued during a preliminary hearing that the case was based on.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 9, 2007 @ 6:07pm neoform

wftv -- It's the first trial of its kind. A man is facing a judge and jury for violating Orlando's ban on feeding the homeless. Eric Montanez, 22, was caught feeding a group in Lake Eola Park earlier this year. The prosecution told Eyewitness News their case rest.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 17, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- The owners of a New Orleans-area nursing home ignored televised and government warnings of the growing strength of Hurricane Katrina and failed to evacuate 59 frail, elderly residents which resulted in the deaths of 35, a prosecutor told a jury Thursday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 1:01am neoform

FOX News -- A man will face trial on two animal-cruelty counts stemming for allegedly using a bow and two arrows to kill a neighbor's tabby cat, a judge ruled Monday. Robert Eugene Brunner, 47, was jailed on $75,000 bond in June, when he pleaded not guilty to two.. Read More

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

FOX News -- Police say the Baseline Killer roamed neighborhoods in the Phoenix area for nearly a year, preying on people at random, killing nine and assaulting and robbing others. On Monday, a former construction worker charged in the case faces 20 charges includi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even though the case against him has withered in recent years as most of the key witnesses at his trial have recanted and in some cases said the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

CNN -- It seemed like a good idea at the time. A gang of burglars decided in December 1977 to break into the home of Tony Accardo, one of the most powerful men in organized crime history, and rob his basement vault. Accardo was not amused. Six men Accardo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 12:29am neoform

CNN -- Defense lawyers at Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial wrapped up their case on Tuesday after the one-time media baron and three co-defendants turned down a last chance to take the stand in their own defense. The defense presentation, which lasted less.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 6, 2007 @ 10:26pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- A judge granted a new trial Wednesday for a former substitute teacher convicted of allowing students to view pornography on a classroom computer. Prosecutors did not oppose the defense motion for a new trial for Julie Amero, 40, who had faced up to 40.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:38am neoform

Alter Net -- A conversation with author David Rose about a murder trial gone wrong and what it tells us about the racial and economic bias in America's criminal justice system today. In 1986, Carlton Gary, a black man, was convicted of the 1979 rape and strangulati.. Read More