
Criminal Law - Legal News
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2025/01/13 Fired US Center for SafeSport investigator arrested on new charges
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2024/12/27 Court hearing set for man accused of fatally burning woman on NYC subway
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2024/12/26 Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder and weapons charges
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2024/11/04 Au pair charged in double homicide pleads guilty to manslaughter
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2024/10/29 French actor says Depardieu’s sex assault case underlines a need for change
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2024/10/03 Kentucky sheriff accused of killing judge in courthouse chambers
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2024/09/20 Alaska man charged with sending graphic threats to kill Supreme Court justices
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2024/09/05 A man who attacked a Nevada judge in court pleads guilty but mentally ill
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2024/08/02 Mexican drug cartel leader ‘El Mayo’ Zambada makes a court appearance in Texas
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2024/07/18 Boston lawyer once named ‘most eligible bachelor’ is sentenced to 5-10 years
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2024/06/30 Masked intruder pleads guilty to 2007 attack on Connecticut arts patron
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2024/06/09 Sacramento mass shooting suspect dies in jail cell, police and attorney say
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2024/04/14 Minnesota man guilty in fatal stabbing of teen on Wisconsin river, jury finds
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2024/04/02 The Man Charged in an Illinois Attack That Left 4 Dead Is Due Back in Court
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2024/03/21 Mississippi 'goon squad' officer gets 40 years for racist torture
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2024/02/23 Man found guilty of murder in Alaska Native woman’s killing
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2024/02/17 Ex-Illinois lawmaker abruptly pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering
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2024/02/10 Michigan school shooter’s mother found guilty of manslaughter
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2024/01/23 Supreme Court could overturn Oklahoma death row inmate's conviction
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2024/01/05 Defendant faces new charges after attacking a Nevada judge in court
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2023/12/10 Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack
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2023/10/21 Maryland judge killed in his driveway, was "targeted" by suspect
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2023/09/28 2 accused of false Alzheimer’s diagnoses get prison terms for fraud convictions
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2023/09/20 School band director says he was 'just doing my job' before police arrested him
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2023/08/30 University of North Carolina graduate student left building right after killing
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2023/08/20 Worker gets almost 3 years in prison for stealing $1M from employer
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2023/07/21 Judge weighs challenge to gag order in University of Idaho killings
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2023/07/11 Sports doctor Larry Nassar stabbed by another inmate at federal prison
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2023/07/09 Gunman on scooter charged with murder, attempted murder for NYC shootings
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2023/07/06 Man gets life sentence for raping 9-year-old Ohio girl
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2023/06/25 Man gets life sentence for killing a federal employee
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2023/06/19 Convictions tossed in 2016 death of 16-year-old shot in minivan in Trenton
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2023/05/31 Bus driver accused of stalking boy, 8, agrees to plea deal
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2023/05/19 Suspect in fatal stabbing of Cash App founder pleads not guilty
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2023/05/14 Florida man pleads guilty to threatening poll workers
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2023/05/05 Former California college student arrested in 3 stabbings
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2023/04/27 No release for Hawaii woman accused of using dead baby’s ID
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2023/04/12 Man charged with kidnapping mother and child goes on trial
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2023/03/18 Alabama woman charged in killing of 8-year-old son
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2023/02/26 Alabama man charged in quadruple killing denied bond
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2023/01/14 University: Student stabbed on bus because she is Asian
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2023/01/11 Ex-Louisiana lawmaker gets 22-month sentence for wire fraud
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2023/01/04 Colorado funeral home owner sentenced in body sales case
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2023/01/02 State seeks long prison term for accused NYC subway gunman
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2022/12/17 Ohio court rejects caps on damages in some child rape cases
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2022/11/24 Court OKs life term in 2016 police chase crash that killed 3
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2022/11/16 Texas to execute man for killing ex-girlfriend and her son
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2022/10/26 3 men convicted of supporting plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer
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2022/10/07 Judge denies bond for Atlanta man who shot wife in SUV
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2022/10/02 Bench trial for a man accused of killing 2 women in Phoenix
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2022/09/11 Ex-company executive gets prison term in bid-rigging plot
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2022/09/02 Wisconsin man convicted in fatal attack with an ax
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2022/08/27 Maryland man charged with money laundering in romance scam
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2022/08/07 School dean who shot student ordered to pay $10M judgment
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2022/07/27 Ex-cop Kueng gets 3 years for violating Floyd’s rights
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2022/06/03 Man denies kidnapping charge in alleged murder-for-hire plot
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2022/05/25 Reality TV’s Josh Duggar gets 12 years in child porn case
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2022/03/12 Maryland woman pleads guilty to trying to get benefits
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2022/03/07 Not guilty plea entered in alleged drug deal slaying
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2022/02/19 Iraqi man in Georgia convicted on gun smuggling charges
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2022/01/16 Judge orders new trial in fatal Rapid City stabbing case
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2021/12/02 Man sentenced to 40 years in woman’s heroin overdose death
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2021/11/27 Louisiana man pleads guilty in airline baggage scam
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2021/11/26 Appellate court upholds ex-pastor’s rape, battery conviction
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2021/11/13 Federal court rejects Oklahoma death row inmates appeal
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2021/10/27 Indiana man asks court to review sentence in wife’s slaying
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2021/10/24 Court pilot program started for domestic violence victims
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2021/10/01 Nevada Supreme Court orders separate trials in four killings
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2021/09/27 Georgia probation officer pleads guilty to faking records
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2021/09/12 Oklahoma court declines to bar duo from death penalty case
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2021/08/27 Maryland’s highest court reviewing teen sniper’s life term
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2021/07/26 Woman convicted in kidnapping gets re-sentencing hearing
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2021/07/07 Prosecutors seek 35-year sentence for gang member in killing
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2021/06/30 Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction overturned by court
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2021/05/20 Mayor’s husband pleads not guilty to drug, weapons counts
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2021/04/30 Court rejects appeal by man who killed wife with shotgun
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2021/04/27 Court to hear appeal of Dallas officer who killed neighbor
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2021/04/12 Ex-police chief gets 1 year in prison for hiring scandal
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2021/03/18 2 plead guilty to debit card bank fraud, buying money orders
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2021/03/09 Effects worker sentenced for illegal explosives on movie set
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2021/01/21 Woman accused of helping steal Pelosi laptop freed from jail
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2020/12/01 Cosby’s sex assault conviction goes before high-level court
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2020/11/19 Tory Lanez pleads not guilty in Megan Thee Stallion shooting
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2020/09/16 Shooting outside US court in Phoenix wounds federal officer
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2020/06/12 UConn student fugitive in court on murder charge, police say
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2020/02/18 NH high court rejects appeal of man convicted of planning murder
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2020/02/02 Court throws out 50-year sentence for man who killed wife
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2020/01/21 Supreme Court won’t take case prompted by Flint water crisis
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2019/11/08 Suspect in Colorado synagogue bomb plot due in court
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2019/08/28 ‘Coward’: Epstein accusers pour out their anger in court
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2019/07/24 Meek Mill’s conviction thrown out, granted new trial
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2019/07/20 High court rejects appeal of killer of 4 people in Omaha
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2019/07/11 Fines, jail, probation, debt: Court policies punish the poor
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2019/05/15 Students in Colorado shooting face murder, other charges
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2019/05/10 Parents accused in Illinois boy's beating death due in court
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2019/03/23 Man charged with killing missing girl's mom due in court
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2019/03/22 Man accused of killing, dismembering woman appears in court
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2019/02/23 Florida school shooting suspect due back in court
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2019/02/12 Opera singer, husband appear in court on sex assault charge
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2019/02/06 Man accused of kidnapping Wisconsin girl to appear in court
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2019/01/21 Lawyer: Incapacitated woman who gave birth not in coma
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2019/01/03 The Latest: Man in California officer killing in court
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2019/01/02 Court to review murder convictions in husband's beating
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2018/12/23 Pakistani court set to announce verdict against ex-PM Sharif
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2018/12/16 California court blocks pardon of man who killed at age 14
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2018/11/30 Court: Man put clothes, ID on stand-in corpse in $2M scheme
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2018/11/18 Nebraska high court rejects Omaha killer's latest appeal
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2018/11/15 Lawyer: Court grants Islamic scholar bail amid rape inquiry
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2018/11/10 Court fight likely in 10-year-old girl’s homicide case
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2018/10/29 Synagogue suspect at courthouse; survivors recall ordeal
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2018/10/17 Suspects leaving San Francisco jail can get pot back
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2018/09/26 The Latest: 6 countries seek criminal probe of Venezuela
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2018/09/11 The Latest: Authorities: Officer arrested for manslaughter
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2018/09/05 Louisiana Supreme Court upholds life sentence in beating
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2018/08/20 Man admits slaying wife, blames her for daughters' deaths
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2018/08/16 Court document details moments before fatal police shooting
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2018/08/01 Sex predator law challenged by Cosby to get court review
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2018/07/30 Man charged with killing 5 in newsroom to appear in court
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2018/07/17 Georgia officer charged in fatal shooting to appear in court
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2018/07/16 Teens head to court for stealing cop's gun
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2018/05/31 Confessed killer who wants freed after 20 years due in court
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2018/05/21 Suspect charged after California explosion due in court
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2018/05/19 Suspect in fatal bakery stabbing heads to court
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2018/05/17 Maryland court adopts ‘mailbox rule’ for prison inmates
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2018/05/10 Court stands by death sentence for Craigslist killer
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2018/04/30 Man tests positive for drugs while appearing in Pierre court
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2018/04/27 Florida school shooting suspect Cruz due back in court
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2018/03/27 Utah teen appears in court in school backpack bomb case
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2018/03/25 Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
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2018/03/19 Supreme Court rejects challenge to Arizona death penalty law
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2018/03/16 Court to weigh rule that nixed Aaron Hernandez conviction
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2018/02/20 Court asked to review 'Making a Murderer' confession
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2018/01/26 Warrant dropped for professor who spoke Hawaiian in court
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2018/01/09 State high court upholds ex-police chief's murder conviction
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2018/01/06 Court extends halt in Louisiana executions after judge dies
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2017/12/15 Russian court: ex-minister guilty of taking $2 million bribe
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2017/12/14 Ohio high court shields full autopsy reports in slaying of 8
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2017/12/11 Idaho man upset with court tries to crash into courthouse
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2017/11/20 Girlfriend of Man Charged With Killing Parents Pleads Guilty
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2017/10/27 Burundi becomes 1st to leave International Criminal Court
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2017/10/23 Tennessee church shooting suspect due in court Monday
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2017/10/09 NC high court reviews death penalty of man who beheaded wife
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2017/09/21 Court asked to dismiss cases tied to ex-drug lab chemist
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2017/08/01 Man suspected in Indiana officer's killing due in court
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2017/07/22 Homeless man pleads not guilty to beating El Cajon officer
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2017/07/13 Man charged with killing Maine couple on Christmas in court
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2017/06/24 McCarthy found guilty of 2nd-degree murder of Bella Bond
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2017/06/23 High court rejects new trial request in Boston murder case
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2017/06/22 Rhode Island high court vacates conviction in triple slaying
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2017/06/18 Michelle Carter text suicide trial verdict: Guilty
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2017/06/16 Court Filing: Man to Plead in Case Linked to Extremists
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2017/06/10 Court records outline hours before Virginia shooting
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2017/06/09 The Latest: Suspect in 36 fire deaths appears in court
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2017/05/31 High court once again upholds death sentence for Ohio woman
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2017/05/22 Family of Colorado man killed by police settles lawsuit
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2017/05/17 Court pauses criminal case against Texas' attorney general
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2017/05/08 Man pleads guilty in holding 14-year-old captive for months
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2017/05/05 Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman returns to court in drug case
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2017/05/01 Woman accused of lying about rape to go before court
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2017/04/25 After 26 years, last 'cocaine cowboy' back in Miami court
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2017/04/17 Court document: Hawaii mother’s body parts found in freezer
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2017/04/03 Texas teen to appear in court in shooting death of parents
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2017/03/14 Court filing: Cellphone records tracked accused killer of 3
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2017/02/01 Missouri death row inmate appeals to US Supreme Court
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2017/01/26 Driver due in court in Cleveland officer's hit-and-run death
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2017/01/22 A Mass. woman due in court for hearing in texting suicide case
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2017/01/18 Man accused of killing Orlando officer defiant in court
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2017/01/11 Ohio brother slaying case might return to juvenile court
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2017/01/04 Court says convicted killer Skakel's defense was adequate
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2016/12/13 Man who fired shots in DC pizza parlor expected in court
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2016/12/02 Connecticut court to hear appeal in Newtown shooting case
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2016/11/21 Ohio sheriff accused of drug theft changing not guilty plea
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2016/11/11 Court lifts execution reprieve for San Antonio hit man
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2016/10/26 Gambia says it is leaving International Criminal Court
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2016/10/17 3 suspects in bomb plot against Somalis to face Kansas court
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2016/10/14 Former Ohio officer charged with murder due back in court
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2016/09/06 Massachusetts court to hear appeal in mail bomb killing
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2016/09/02 Man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend, burning body
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2016/08/21 Court reverses ruling in parenting, kidnapping case
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2016/08/15 North Carolina shooting victim's family hires lawyer
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2016/08/12 Ex-officer charged in death of black motorist back in court
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2016/07/24 Kansas court upholds death sentence for sheriff's killing
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2016/07/20 Woman pleads guilty to lesser charge in husband's stabbing
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2016/07/19 Family files lawsuit against hospital and city in death
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2016/06/01 Police union defends ex-officer in black musician's death
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2016/05/15 Court absolves soldiers in army killing of suspects
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2016/05/14 Man accused of shooting 2 police officers due in court
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2016/04/25 Stoddard firefighter charged with arson due in court
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2016/04/21 Court document: Newtown teacher carried loaded gun in school
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2016/04/18 Inmate pleads guilty to killing another at Albion prison
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2016/04/07 Court: Native American church not excused from cannabis laws
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2016/03/25 'Bogus beggar' pleads guilty to fraud charges
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2016/03/12 Teen changes plea to guilty in deaths of mother, stepfather
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2016/03/01 Guard implicated in NY prison break pleads guilty
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2016/02/22 Man recounts harrowing Uber ride with Kalamazoo suspect
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2016/02/18 Court gunman's children face sentencing for cyberstalking
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2016/02/06 Former court clerk ordered to pay back $1M, at $600 a month
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2016/02/03 Oldest death row inmate in Georgia, age 72, is executed
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2016/01/04 Court date for man charged in fatal church stabbing
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2015/12/28 Court turns down appeal for Harvey family killer
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2015/12/24 Florida Supreme Court denies stay of execution
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2015/12/14 Woman pleads not guilty to fake threats vs. black students
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2015/12/08 Massey Energy CEO Blankenship found guilty of misdemeanor
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2015/12/01 Court papers: Witness ID'd man in playground shooting
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2015/11/02 Woman charged in slayings of Connecticut couple due in court
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2015/10/17 NM teen pleads guilty to killing parents, 3 younger siblings
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2015/10/08 High court weighs 3 death sentences in Kansas cases
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2015/10/01 Suspect in some Phoenix freeway shootings pleads not guilty
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2015/09/19 San Francisco pier murder suspect reiterates not guilty plea
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2015/09/16 US court upholds Oklahoma death row inmate's sentence
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2015/09/10 Appeals court voids husband's antifreeze death conviction
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2015/08/24 Man accused of stabbing, rape due in court
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2015/08/20 Appeals court won't reinstate 1990 arson-murder conviction
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2015/08/19 Appeals court won't reinstate 1990 arson-murder conviction
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2015/08/18 Court rejects inmate's challenge in 5 Ohio prison slayings
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2015/08/10 Texas man charged in killing of 8 set for court appearance
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2015/07/28 NY prison worker pleads guilty in escape of 2 killers
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2015/07/07 Peterson returns to court in murder-for-hire trial
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2015/07/02 Ex-state senator pleads guilty to racketeering in California
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2015/06/18 High court grants reprieve to Louisiana death-row inmate
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2015/06/17 Huguely files appeal request with U.S. Supreme Court
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2015/06/10 Man accused of Jewish site shootings to appear in court
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2015/05/29 Suge Knight returns to court to try to dismiss murder case
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2015/04/25 Man accused of trying to join terrorists pleads not guilty
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2015/04/24 Wisconsin teen accused of killing parents due in court
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2015/04/09 'Suge' Knight comes to court for robbery case in wheelchair
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2015/03/21 Mom charged with fatally stabbing kids skips court date
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2015/03/09 'Suge' Knight due back in court for murder case
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2015/02/25 Bank manager pleads guilty to stealing $1.4M from customers
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2015/02/13 Oklahoma ex-deputy charged with sexual battery due in court
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2015/02/11 NYPD officer due in court in stairwell shooting
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2015/02/04 Brother of murder victim attacks defendant in court
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2015/01/28 Appeals court weighs suit in US Marshals shooting
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2015/01/11 NC Supreme Court to hear child killer's case
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2015/01/05 Suspect in trooper shooting case heads to court
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2014/12/22 Hernandez trial expected to take 6 to 10 weeks
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2014/12/18 Tsarnaev appears in court for 1st time since 2013
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2014/11/12 Man accused of pushing wife off cliff is in court
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2014/09/18 Court reverses woman's conviction in child's death
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2014/08/27 Kentucky leader pleads guilty in kickbacks scheme
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2014/08/11 Teen suspect in 6-year-old's death due in court
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2014/07/23 Teacher slaying suspect in court on assault charge
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2014/07/07 Fla. man pleads guilty to rhino horn trafficking
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2014/06/08 Billionaire pleads guilty to sexual assault charge
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2014/06/02 Court gives OJ lawyers a week to resubmit appeal
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2014/05/21 Supreme Court justice suspends Missouri execution
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2014/03/16 Man pleads guilty to stealing from farmers market
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2014/03/12 Inmate pleads guilty in prison guard's stabbing
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2014/03/10 Coast Guardsman guilty in sexual misconduct case
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2014/02/28 Supreme Court allows Stanford Ponzi scheme suits
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2014/02/18 Fla. man guilty of lesser counts in music shooting
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2014/02/09 Farmer pleads guilty in pot growing scheme
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2014/02/08 California teen pleads not guilty in newborn death
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2014/01/19 Court hearings for 2 arrested in student stabbing
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2014/01/16 High court rejects Ohio killer's last-minute plea
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2014/01/08 4 suspects in NJ mall carjacking plead not guilty
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2013/12/29 Tenino man pleads guilty to child pornography
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2013/12/24 Man Pleads Guilty After Girl Hands Out Pot Candy
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2013/12/03 LA airport shooting suspect appears in court
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2013/11/16 Man pleads guilty in hole-in-one prize case
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2013/11/08 2 plead not guilty to killing students near USC
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2013/10/25 Canada sex offender pleads not guilty to US charge
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2013/10/18 Man charged in SW Ill. bank heist appears in court
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2013/09/30 Butte man pleads guilty in overdose death
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2013/09/12 Inmate accused of threatening court official
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2013/08/31 Teen guilty of murdering Georgia baby in stroller
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2013/08/24 Man pleads guilty in bus stop crash that kills 4
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2013/08/12 Court hearing expected in RI slayings, abduction
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2013/07/27 Hells Angel member pleads guilty in Nev. shooting
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2013/05/10 OC grade school janitor guilty of bathroom filming
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2013/03/14 Officials: Fla. lawyer at center of $300M scheme
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2013/03/08 3 ex-Marine Corp clerks plead guilty in San Diego
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2013/02/22 No deposition for lawyer in Trayvon Martin case
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2013/02/11 3 plead guilty to falsifying OH weapons permits
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2013/02/07 Walton appointed presiding judge of FISA Court
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2013/02/04 Ex-Mass. chemist pleads not guilty in lab case
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2013/01/29 Former LA union chief found guilty of embezzling
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2013/01/25 Appeals court upholds lobbyist's conviction
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2013/01/23 Canadian kills 2 in Philippine court, is shot dead
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2013/01/03 Detroit mom in court in daughter's stabbing death
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2012/12/28 Chicago has logged its 500th homicide of 2012
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2012/12/26 Ohio schools officer to plead guilty to sex charge
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2012/12/25 Man who cut lawyer in San Diego court convicted
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2012/12/03 Court date in NY hotel maid's suit vs Strauss-Kahn
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2012/11/14 Lawyer accused of laundering money to request bail
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2012/11/09 Texas lawyer pleads not guilty to aiding cartel
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2012/10/22 Prosecutor: RFK son kicked nurse in infant scuffle
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2012/09/25 High court to consider drunken driving case
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2012/09/12 KC law firm owner faces murder, forgery charges
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2012/08/20 Teen accused of torching family house due in court
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2012/08/07 MJM Law Office - Eugene Criminal Lawyer
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2012/08/05 Appeals court upholds hate crime law in Ark. case
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2012/07/30 Maine high court upholds hypnotist sex charge
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2012/07/05 La. high court upholds murder conviction
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2012/06/21 Use new drug sentencing law in crack cases
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2012/06/18 High court sides with state in DNA case
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2012/06/15 Feds: Man to plead guilty in 1983 Conn. robbery
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2012/06/14 Del. court hears pedophile ex-pediatrician appeal
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2012/06/13 Arizona court approves fifth execution this year
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2012/06/09 2 men sentenced in Palin lawyer harassment case
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2012/05/23 New charges for Indiana man suspected of killing 3
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2012/05/07 5 suspects charged in Ohio bomb plot due in court
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2012/05/01 Lawyer enters not guilty plea for shooting suspect
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2012/04/09 Indiana man charged with teen sexual exploitation
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2012/04/05 2 life terms for Phoenix man who fatally beat kids
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2012/03/30 SF man suspected of 5 murders gets new lawyer
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2012/03/14 Ohioan to plead guilty to defrauding fellow Amish
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2012/03/08 Iowa man pleads not guilty to bestiality charge
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2012/02/28 Driver acquitted in deadly Megabus crash in NY
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2012/02/09 Fugitive sibling to appear in Colo. court
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2012/01/27 'Barefoot Bandit' to be sentenced in federal court
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2012/01/20 Police witnesses called in fake 'Rockefeller' case
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2012/01/13 Priest with gambling habit facing prison in Vegas
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2012/01/05 Court papers: NYC officer shooting suspect sorry
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2012/01/03 LA arson suspect cursed US days before fires
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2011/12/14 Alleged White House shooter due in court Friday
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2011/11/29 Calif. salon shooting suspect due for arraignment
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2011/11/28 Utah-to-Boston passenger denies child porn charge
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2011/11/14 Ind. teen who strangled brother seeks sentence cut
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2011/10/20 Appeal filed in case of slain ND college student
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2011/10/17 High court to rule on Stolen Valor Act
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2011/10/13 Texan freed by DNA test after 25 years exonerated
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2011/10/11 US court turns down Philly DA in cop-killing case
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2011/09/21 Court halts Texas execution of ex-Army recruiter
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2011/09/15 NC stepmom gets up to 18 years in girl's murder
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2011/09/12 Ex-Mormon bishop pleads guilty to child sex abuse
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2011/09/07 NY jail guard pleads guilty to murders, kidnapping
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2011/08/20 3 African refugees plead not guilty in fake bomb
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2011/08/18 Man found guilty in Atlanta of killing boxer
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2011/08/17 Okla. man pleads not guilty to gas pipeline bomb
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2011/08/15 Ex-Harvard student due in court in 2009 shooting
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2011/08/11 Mom devastated after fugitive children's capture
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2011/08/08 Couple pleads guilty in Las Vegas surgery death
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2011/08/01 DeMocker defense says former lawyer will keep mum
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2011/07/26 Trial won't feature unreleased Jackson footage
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2011/07/25 Court denies motion to stop Loughner medication
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2011/07/20 Paralegal accused of stealing from law firm
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2011/07/18 DC killing suspect escapes by switching identities
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2011/07/18 Man in court for NY-to-LA flight stowaway charges
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2011/07/13 Florida man pleads guilty in Idaho abduction, rape
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2011/07/11 Ex-law firm office manager sentenced for theft
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2011/07/08 Lululemon killing suspect, Brittany Norwood, in court
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2011/07/07 Defendant in 4 Calif. killings now wants lawyer
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2011/07/06 In Strauss-Kahn case, DA weighs limited options
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2011/06/30 Prosecutors seek to drop earlier Bulger charges
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2011/06/30 2 year sentence for convicted Hilton trespasser
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2011/06/26 Pa. man found guilty of killing 3 Pittsburgh cops
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2011/06/20 Navy subcontractor pleads guilty in bribe case
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2011/06/14 NY top court rejects online defamation suit
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2011/06/10 Woman faces prison in Calif.-to-Ohio pot scheme
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2011/06/06 Ex-IMF leader pleads not guilty to sex assault
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2011/06/03 New charges against driver in fatal Va. bus crash
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2011/06/02 Convicted Texas killer executed: 'I am at peace'
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2011/05/30 Court: Sex-offender list is not cruel punishment
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2011/05/25 Giffords shooting suspect in court over competency
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2011/05/25 Fifth Somali guilty plea entered in piracy trial
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2011/05/24 OC woman sentenced for embezzlement
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2011/05/21 Not guilty plea entered for teen in NJ webcam case
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2011/05/19 4 ex-Auburn players indicted on felony charges
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2011/05/14 2 sports gear firm execs charged in fraud scheme
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2011/05/11 Ruling favors suspected Calif. gang members
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2011/05/10 Court to reconsider case of Super Bowl threat
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2011/05/06 Court for Fla. woman charged in husband's NY death
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2011/05/03 NY man pleads guilty in 2005 samurai sword slaying
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2011/05/02 More psych evaluation in castration killing case
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2011/04/29 Investigators suspect Utah doctor killed wife
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2011/04/28 Ohio man pleads guilty in abortion-gunpoint case
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2011/04/26 Ind. school shooting suspect to be tried as adult
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2011/04/20 Dallas steak house founder pleads guilty to theft
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2011/04/20 Fla. man pleads guilty to gouging wife's eyes
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2011/04/18 Navy contractor to plead guilty in kickback scheme
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2011/04/08 Court turns down Ariz. man's appeal in cop killing
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2011/04/06 Texas death row inmate gets reprieve
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2011/04/01 Ex-Texas judge changes plea, admits to bribery
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2011/03/31 NH police: Woman who posted ad kidnapped, raped
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2011/03/28 Man cleared of '72 slaying facing federal charges
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2011/03/16 Yale killing suspect plans to plead guilty
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2011/03/10 Lansing man, 21, pleads to killing adoptive mother
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2011/03/03 Trial begins for RI art dealer accused of $6M con
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2011/02/16 California nursery goes to court to grow pot
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2011/02/15 Lawyer sentenced for LA courthouse drug smuggling
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2011/02/15 SoCal mom pleads not guilty over daughter's death
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2011/02/15 Ex-NFL quarterback Schlichter charged in $1M theft
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2011/02/11 Prairieville man pleads guilty to mail fraud
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2011/02/11 W.Va. man convicted of passing bogus $50
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2011/02/09 Pa. abortion doc charged with murder due in court
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2011/02/08 Woman gets prison time for embezzling $135K
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2011/02/07 Calif. woman pleads guilty in Ohio plane pot case
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2011/02/07 Janitor says not guilty in Calif. principal murder
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2011/02/04 Mich. mosque plot suspect says he wants new lawyer
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2011/02/04 Ex-hospital director guilty of sex abuse
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2011/02/03 Arrest made in $1.5M Bellagio casino chip heist
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2011/01/28 Colo. pot grower to be sentenced in federal court
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2011/01/27 NY man pleads guilty in attack on estranged wife
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2011/01/26 Guilty plea entered by ex-Galleon employee in NYC .
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2011/01/25 Suspect pleads not guilty in deadly Ariz. shooting
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2011/01/17 Mass. ex-chief found not guilty in boy's Uzi death
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2011/01/11 CA appeals court affirms sentence in stove death
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2011/01/05 NY meteorologist made up attack for attention
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2010/12/07 NH man admits hacking woman, girl, claims insanity
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2010/11/22 Man to challenge Twitter 'threat' conviction
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2010/11/09 Conviction overturned for LA man in teen murders
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2010/11/08 Cincinnati man pleads guilty in home ownership scheme
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2010/11/04 Ex-NJ lawmaker gets 5-year term for child porn
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2010/11/02 Ex-New Orleans Tech Chief Pleads Guilty
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2010/11/01 N.H. man due in court in Haverhill homicide
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2010/10/21 Colo. pot grower plans guilty plea to drug charges
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2010/10/21 Man guilty of stealing $340K in copper
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2010/10/20 Ex-Ohio sewer agency lawyer sentenced to 70 months
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2010/10/20 Lawsuit filed in Utah tour bus crash
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2010/10/14 Court date set in New York City anti-gay beatings
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2010/10/12 Court sends back Buddhist temple killing case
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2010/10/08 Man who took tourists on NYC chase pleads guilty
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2010/10/05 2 pleas after NY toddler chokes to death on carrot
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2010/09/30 Chicago bomb suspect to appear in court
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2010/09/29 Pa. woman to plead guilty in Boston bridal scam
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2010/09/27 Serb pleads guilty in NY student beating case
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2010/09/24 2 Iowa women plead guilty to embezzling millions
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2010/09/17 Ind. teen who killed brother breaks down in court
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2010/09/16 Man who tried to fake death pleads guilty to fraud
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2010/09/15 Defendant pleads guilty in NJ in $880M fraud case
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2010/09/08 Accused gunman in hospital standoff due in court
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2010/09/07 Flight attendant in passenger tiff due in N.Y. court
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2010/09/02 New Jersey man pleads guilty to trade secret theft
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2010/08/31 Ohio parents plead guilty to hog-tying young son
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2010/08/25 NY trial starts for 4 accused of temple bomb plot
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2010/08/23 'Grim Sleeper' arraignment set for Monday
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2010/08/17 Lawyer says DOJ ends criminal probe of Tom DeLay
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2010/08/16 Ex-money manager to plead guilty to Indiana fraud
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2010/08/13 Stabbing spree suspect set for Ga. court hearing
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2010/08/12 KC man pleads guilty in online sports bookmaking
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2010/08/11 Mom pleads guilty in wreck that spurred NY law
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2010/08/05 ICE officers released man charged in nun's death
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2010/07/30 Texas mom in starving case changes plea to guilty
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2010/07/28 Conn. man found incompetent in '92 is held again
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2010/07/27 NH ex-teacher pleads guilty on nude photo charge
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2010/07/26 Fla. lawyer accused of vandalizing client's home
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2010/07/22 'Barefoot Bandit' to make Seattle court appearance
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2010/07/21 Law firm office manager stole $176000, Pinellas deputies say
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2010/07/21 Ex-Raider Russell pleads not guilty in Ala. case
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2010/07/20 Guilty plea entered in Obama student loan case
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2010/07/16 No bail for Maine man detained in car bomb probe
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2010/07/13 Colo. school shooting suspect pleads not guilty
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2010/07/07 Phoenix man pleads guilty in fatal hit-and-run
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2010/07/05 Teen convicted of murder seeks help from hit man
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2010/07/02 Ex-UFC fighter War Machine gets year in jail
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2010/06/29 Guilty verdict in NYC beating death of immigrant
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2010/06/24 Calif man accused of extortion through hacking
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2010/06/23 5 militia men must stay locked up awaiting trial
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2010/06/18 Bishop lawyer says Boston case may help defense
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2010/06/14 OJ jury makeup, judge conduct questioned in appeal
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2010/06/10 Cops: Suspect at court tried to sell GPS to owner
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2010/06/09 Girl pleads guilty in Seattle bus tunnel beating
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2010/06/04 Mass. sen. who stuffed money in bra pleads guilty
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2010/05/27 NY teen gets 25 years in hate crime stabbing
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2010/05/26 NY teen faces sentencing in hate crime stabbing
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2010/05/20 3 members of Midwest militia released from jail
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2010/05/18 Release likely for 3 jailed militia members
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2010/05/12 Fla. man who caused flight diversion due in court
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2010/05/07 Attorney accused of setting fire at Martinsburg law firm
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2010/04/30 Teen convicted of Mass. school stabbing gets life
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2010/04/29 Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer
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2010/04/25 Eugene, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyer
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2010/04/23 Judge removed from case of 11 Cleveland killings
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2010/04/16 NY immigration agent pleads guilty to sex coercion
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2010/04/06 Texas man threatened deadly force to stop abortion
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2010/03/25 Judge dismisses 1 case against ex-Lion Tommie Boyd
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2010/03/25 Feds: Guns, cash stashed in reputed mobster's home
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2010/03/24 Condemned Texas man says DNA tests could clear him
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2010/03/23 Court hearing 'Fatal Vision' appeal after 40 years
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2010/03/22 Woman sentenced after embezzling from law firm
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2010/03/04 Marine pleads not guilty to arranging rape online
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2010/03/01 Court orders new look at Fla. murder case
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2010/02/18 Valrico man arrested for damaging law firm's computers
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2010/02/17 Court papers: Alaska man acknowledges killing 2
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2010/02/16 Man accused in attorney death in court
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2010/01/26 Yale killing suspect plans to plead not guilty
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2010/01/19 Court sends shaken baby case back to 9th Circuit
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2010/01/13 Mass. parents in OD case to be tried separately
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2010/01/05 Man pleads not guilty to setting deadly Mass. fire
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2009/12/16 Man shoots and kills court employee in Austria
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2009/12/15 2 guilty of killing CA teen, hiding body in drum
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2009/12/09 Neo-Nazi in murder trial gets makeover for trial
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2009/11/20 Slaying suspect said hobby was 'killing people'
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2009/11/06 Guilty plea in fatal NY stabbing of immigrant
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2009/10/29 New penalty phase in case of man stabbed 193 times
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2009/10/23 NJ man guilty of sex with Pa. teen met on Web
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2009/10/20 Suspect in actor's beating pleads not guilty
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2009/10/18 DA asks court to reject OJ co-defendant appeal
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2009/10/07 Attorney convicted of stealing from law firm
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2009/09/20 Woman charged in $700G theft from NY law firm
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2009/09/17 Lab tech arrested in Yale killing arrives at court
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2009/09/16 Court sets execution date for DC sniper mastermind
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2009/08/24 Conn. Supreme Court rejects appeal in 1997 murder
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2009/08/20 Man Charged In Milwaukee Mayor Beating
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2009/07/27 Sonoma County man guilty in murder of grandfather
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2009/07/14 2 more people arrested in slaying of Fla. couple
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2009/07/13 Motive probed in slaying of Fla. pair with 16 kids
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2009/07/13 1 of 3 escaped inmates from Ind. prison caught
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2009/07/02 Mass. man charged with murder in son's beating
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2009/06/29 Cornell student charged in wife's slaying in NY
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2009/06/22 'Craigslist' killer back in court to face new charges
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2009/05/29 Man Pleads Guilty to Using MySpace to Lure Teen Girls
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2009/05/28 Man pleads not guilty to killing Chandra Levy
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2009/05/13 Man headed to prison for stealing donations
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2009/04/12 Man jailed for dodging child support for 14 kids
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2009/04/02 Wash. man convicted in fellow student's murder
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2009/03/23 Final arguments ready in Spector murder retrial
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2009/02/27 Hedge-fund swindler due in NY court after checkup
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2009/02/13 Grand jury: Miss. athlete's gunshot death accident
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2009/02/12 Fla. executes man for killing Tampa teen in 1983
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2009/02/03 Ex-La. insurance CEO pleads not guilty to theft
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2009/01/29 Teen accused in taped Fla. beating pleads guilty
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2009/01/14 Supreme Court reviews speedy trial issue
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2009/01/08 2 Ill. men accused of running $15M fraud scheme
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2008/12/29 Santa gunman lost job, wife before gory attack
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2008/12/17 Fla. teen pleads not guilty in school shooting
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2008/11/23 Gunman shoots 3 inside NJ church
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2008/11/03 2 due in federal court in Vegas boy's abduction
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2008/10/30 Judge orders mom charged in kid's death released
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2008/09/12 Wis. court: Cops illegally taped nursing home sex
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2008/09/11 Jury selection resumes in O.J. Simpson trial
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2008/09/09 Sentencing begins in Clemson student strangling
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2008/09/05 Man shows up in Pa. court with loaded handgun
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2008/09/03 Man faces charges for allegedly shooting near UCLA
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2008/09/02 NY Landlord arrested for hidden cameras
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2008/08/28 Public defender to take ex-prof's appeal in scam
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2008/08/19 LA hospital CEO pleads not guilty to billing fraud
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2008/08/11 Retrial begins in Ohio microwave baby-death case
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2008/08/01 NY man arrested in baby food poison video threats
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2008/07/29 Sharpton faces disorderly conduct charge at trial
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2008/07/24 Alleged SF computer saboteur's bail request denied
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2008/07/22 Louisiana asks court to reopen child rape case
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2008/07/15 2 Marines charged in nurse's slaying due in court
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2008/07/10 Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies
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2008/07/03 Court proceedings begin for killing-spree suspect
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2008/06/27 O.J.: Anybody else wouldn't be going to court
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2008/06/10 Prison overseer tells Calif. gov. he needs $7B
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2008/06/02 Attorney Weiss gets prison in kickback scheme
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2008/05/23 U.S. border cop pleads guilty to drug trafficking
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2008/05/21 NY woman pleads guilty in adoption scam of 11 kids
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2008/05/20 Man due in court in NC state investigator's death
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2008/05/14 Man accused of handing pot to court security
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2008/05/08 Boyfriend pleads not guilty in toilet-seat case
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2008/04/29 Smithtown developer pleads guilty in bribery case
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2008/04/28 Smithtown contractor admits to bribe
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2008/04/21 Can murder victim's statements be used at trial?
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2008/03/07 Hunt on for Clues in Times Square Blast
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2008/03/07 Boy Band Mogul Pearlman Pleads Guilty
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2008/03/06 Ex-Tennessee Sheriff Pleads Not Guilty
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2008/02/28 Man Pleads Not Guilty to 1983 Robbery
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2008/02/25 Lawyer: Japan Should Avoid Slay Case
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2008/02/23 Enzyte Maker Found Guilty of Fraud
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2008/02/15 Suspect Named in N. Illinois Slayings
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2008/02/13 Dumping of disabled man draws suspensions
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2008/02/13 The former Luthersville police chief pleads guilty
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2008/02/06 'Mafia Cop' Pleads Guilty in Tax Case
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2008/02/01 Drifter Guilty in Ga. Hiker's Murder
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2008/01/30 Man charged in officers' shooting found guilty
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2008/01/26 NY Billionaire Faces 2nd Sex Lawsuit
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2008/01/25 Ex-Atlanta Cop Guilty of Taking Payoffs
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2008/01/15 Prostitute murders accused in court
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2007/12/24 NY Man Guilty in Death of White Teen
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2007/12/23 Boys’ Kidnapper Gets 170 Years More
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2007/12/16 ND Jailer Pleads Guilty to Sex Assaults
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2007/12/05 NY Man Found Guilty of Murdering Family
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2007/12/05 Member of Defunct Church Guilty of Rapes
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2007/11/28 Penn Prof Pleads Guilty to Killing Wife
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2007/11/26 Ex-Prof Pleads Guilty to Killing Wife
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2007/11/15 Sheriff Forces Inmates to Pay Rent
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2007/10/31 Suspect Pleads Guilty in Boys' Deaths
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2007/10/24 2 plead guilty in O.J. Simpson armed-robbery case
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2007/10/16 Nevada court stays execution of murderer at 11th hour
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2007/10/16 Class Action Lawsuit Against NutriSystem, Inc.
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2007/10/12 'Mansion Madam' pleads guilty to prostitution
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2007/10/10 Man Pleads Guilty to 2nd Kidnapping
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2007/10/06 Police Kill Man Who Shot 5 at Law Firm
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2007/09/22 MIT student arrested at Logan airport for fake bomb
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2007/09/21 Vegas Priest Pleads Guilty to Battery
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2007/09/19 Man Pleads Guilty in Dog Beheading
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2007/09/13 Identity thieves preying on Islanders with IRS scam
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2007/09/11 Court: Release or Retry Death Row Inmate
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2007/09/10 Five found guilty in Chicago mob trial
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2007/09/10 Boston police officer pleads guilty to drug charges
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2007/08/29 Teacher pleads guilty to having sex with student
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2007/08/08 W.Va.: Ex-Senator, Husband Plead Guilty
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2007/08/01 Suspect Pleads Guilty in Ohio Mall Plot
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2007/07/06 Doctor's wife guilty of murder-for-hire
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2007/07/03 Not-guilty pleas in police beating case
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2007/06/28 Two plead guilty in horse doping case
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2007/06/18 Shelton pleads guilty to attempted murder of teen
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2007/06/06 Three MS-13 Leaders Charged with Racketeering
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2007/05/31 Homeless man pleads guilty in manhole slayings
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2007/05/28 Woman not guilty of daughters murder
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2007/05/18 Former Wilton Mayor Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge
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2007/05/18 Pittsfield man guilty of murdering wife
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2007/05/17 Man pleads guilty to 3 N.Y. murders
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2007/05/16 Court rejects appeal in slayings of six Wis. hunters
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2007/05/16 Casper woman pleads not guilty to murder charge
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2007/05/14 Man pleads guilty to rape; gets life sentence
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2007/05/11 Police killer found guilty of prostitute murder
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2007/05/11 Former teacher pleads guilty in student-sex case
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2007/05/10 Texas Man Sentenced To Life In Death Of TCU Kicker
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2007/05/04 Man accused of sex with minor pleads guilty
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2007/05/04 De La Fuente Jr. pleads guilty to rape charges
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2007/05/03 Jury finds Saleh guilty of murder in Popovich slaying
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2007/04/26 Two Florida former police officers plead guilty
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2007/04/22 Police: Poor Review Set Off Nasa Gunman
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2007/04/19 Ex-Navy chief pleads guilty to attempted rape
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2007/04/17 Virginia Tech Shooter Identified by Police
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2007/04/17 Cop killer pleads guilty in assault on prison guard
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2007/04/14 State Trooper Guilty Of On Duty Rape
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2007/04/12 Jailed sex offender hit with five more counts
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2007/04/10 Parental Alienation Awareness Day to be April 25th
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2007/04/10 Man to plead guilty to slaying of 10-year-old girl
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2007/04/09 Teenager pleads guilty to killing deli owner
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2007/04/09 Verdict: Guilty but mentally ill
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2007/04/06 Credit Card Counterfeiter Gets Five Years In Prison
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2007/04/04 Charge upgraded after lieutenant's death
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2007/04/03 Alameda man gets prison for groping girl
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2007/04/01 Milan woman indicted on bank fraud charges
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2007/03/11 Two former Rangers Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery
An ex-cop fired from his job as an investigator at the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again, this time charged with rape and sex trafficking.
Jason Krasley, a former police officer in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was arrested Friday and charged with felony rape and involuntary sexual servitude for crimes allegedly committed while he was on the force between 2011 and 2015, according to a news release from the district attorney’s office.
Krasley left the department in 2021 and went to work for the SafeSport Center, which fired him last year shortly after learning he’d been arrested for allegedly stealing $5,500 from a drug bust he helped conduct while on the force.
The new arrest resurfaces the question of how Krasley was able to maneuver through what officials at the center say is a robust vetting process it uses to hire people tasked with uncovering sensitive information regarding sex-abuse cases.
The Denver-based center was established in 2017 to deal with sex-abuse cases in Olympic sports from the elite level down to the grassroots. As of late last year, it had 36 people on its investigation team; it has tapped into police forces, where some detectives deal with similar cases, to fill some of those positions.
“I am appalled that a former staff member has been accused of such heinous acts in his previous role as a police officer,” SafeSport CEO Ju’Riese Colon said in an emailed statement to The Associated Press. “We hold all staff to the highest standard because safeguarding athletes is our utmost priority.”
The AP has learned of two cases Krasley handled — one of which was assigned to another investigator after his arrest on the theft charges. In the other, the claimant asked if her case could be reopened in the wake of the arrest and was told in an email from a SafeSport employee that “those matters are already being reviewed prior to the requests and media attention.”
Colon said the center has commissioned a third-party audit of cases Krasley handled.
“We are working with subject matter experts to determine what additional actions should be taken in light of the new allegations,” she said.
Krasley faces additional counts of felony kidnapping, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and intimidation of a witness, in addition to misdemeanor criminal coercion.
Krasley’s attorney, James Burke, told lehighvallleylive.com that Krasley “absolutely denies the allegations.” Burke did not return a voicemail left at his office by AP.
Krasley, 47, also is named in a whistleblower lawsuit filed last year by two Allentown officers who alleged widespread misconduct in the department.
Also arrested and charged with felony rape and involuntary sexual servitude Friday was a current Allentown officer, Kevin Weaver, who has been placed on administrative leave.
A court hearing is scheduled Friday for the man accused of setting a woman on fire on a New York City subway train and fanning the flames with a shirt as she burned to death.
Sebastian Zapeta has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of arson for the apparently random attack, which occurred early Sunday morning on a train stopped in Brooklyn.
The 33-year-old man made his first court appearance earlier in the week. He was not required to enter a plea, and his attorney has not responded to requests for comment.
The victim has not yet been publicly identified by police.
Zapeta, who federal immigration officials said is a Guatemalan citizen who entered the U.S. illegally, has been jailed at the city’s Rikers Island complex.
Authorities say Zapeta approached the woman, who might have been sleeping on the train at the Coney Island station stop, and set her clothing on fire with a lighter. He waved a shirt at her to fan the fire, causing her to become engulfed in flames, prosecutor Ari Rottenberg said during the court appearance Tuesday.
Zapeta then sat on a bench on the platform and watched as she burned, prosecutors allege. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police took Zapeta into custody while he was riding a train on the same line later that day.
Zapeta told investigators that he drinks a lot of liquor and did not know what had happened, according to Rottenberg. However, Zapeta did identify himself in photos and surveillance video showing the fire being lit, the prosecutor said.
A Brooklyn address for Zapeta released by police after his arrest matches a shelter that provides housing and substance abuse support.
Federal immigration officials said he was deported in 2018 but returned to the U.S. illegally sometime after that.
The man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare pleaded not guilty on Monday to state murder and terror charges while his attorney complained that comments coming from New York’s mayor would make it tough to receive a fair trial.
Luigi Mangione, 26, was shackled and seated in a Manhattan court when he leaned over to a microphone to enter his plea. The Manhattan district attorney charged him last week with multiple counts of murder, including murder as an act of terrorism.
Mangione’s initial appearance in New York’s state trial court was preempted by federal prosecutors bringing their own charges over the shooting. The federal charges could carry the possibility of the death penalty, while the maximum sentence for the state charges is life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state charges expected to go to trial first. One of Mangione’s attorneys told a judge that the “warring jurisdictions” had turned Mangione into a “human ping-pong ball” and that New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other government officials had made him a political pawn, robbing him of his rights as a defendant and tainting the jury pool.
“I am very concerned about my client’s right to a fair trial,” lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo said.
Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch stood among a throng of heavily armed officers last Thursday when Mangione was flown to a Manhattan heliport and escorted up a pier after being extradited from Pennsylvania.
Friedman Agnifilo said police turned Mangione’s return to New York into a choreographed spectacle. She called out Adams’ comment to a local TV station that he wanted to be there to look “him in the eye and say, ‘you carried out this terroristic act in my city.’”
“He was on display for everyone to see in the biggest stage perp walk I’ve ever seen in my career. It was absolutely unnecessary,” she said.
She also accused federal and state prosecutors of advancing conflicting legal theories, calling their approach confusing and highly unusual.
In a statement, Adams spokesperson Kayla Mamelak Altus wrote: “Critics can say all they want, but showing up to support our law enforcement and sending the message to New Yorkers that violence and vitriol have no place in our city is who Mayor Eric Adams is to his core.”
“The cold-blooded assassination of Brian Thompson — a father of two — and the terror it infused on the streets of New York City for days has since been sickeningly glorified, shining a spotlight on the darkest corners of the internet,” Mamelak Altus said.
State trial court Judge Gregory Carro said he has little control over what happens outside the courtroom, but can guarantee Mangione will receive a fair trial.
Authorities say Mangione gunned down Thompson as he was walking to an investor conference in midtown Manhattan on the morning of Dec 4.
Mangione was arrested in a Pennsylvania McDonald’s after a five-day search, carrying a gun that matched the one used in the shooting and a fake ID, police said. He also was carrying a notebook expressing hostility toward the health insurance industry and especially wealthy executives, according to federal prosecutors.
At a news conference last week, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said the application of the terrorism law reflected the severity of a “frightening, well-planned, targeted murder that was intended to cause shock and attention and intimidation.”
“In its most basic terms, this was a killing that was intended to evoke terror,” he added.
Mangione is being held in a Brooklyn federal jail alongside several other high-profile defendants, including Sean “Diddy” Combs and Sam Bankman-Fried.
During his court appearance Monday, he smiled at times when talking with his attorneys and stretched his right hand after an officer removed his cuffs.
A Brazilian au pair who fell in love with an IRS agent pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Tuesday in what prosecutors say was an elaborate double-murder scheme to frame another man in the stabbing of his wife.
For months after the killings on Feb. 24, 2023, it might have seemed as if Juliana Peres Magalhães and the IRS agent, Brendan Banfield, got away with murders, according to new details prosecutors revealed in court to support her guilty plea.
Christine Banfield, a pediatric intensive care nurse with a 4-year-old daughter, had been mortally wounded with stab wounds to her neck, and Brendan Banfield, her husband, and their live-in nanny both said they shot her apparent killer — a man who had been lured to the bedroom with promises of rough sex.
Magalhães had called 911 to the house in Herndon, Virginia, and was hyperventilating at the scene as she described the killings. Detectives weren’t buying it — but it took time to build their case. Meanwhile, the live-in au pair moved into the primary bedroom with Banfield and posted photos of them as a couple, authorities said. When she was arrested in October 2023, a picture of herself with Brendan Banfield was on the nightstand.
As she remained in jail for more than a year thereafter, she declined to say anything more.
A long-awaited forensics report on the blood spatter evidence then came in, and prosecutors said it showed that Brendan Banfield had smeared blood from Christine Banfield’s wounds onto the body of Joe Ryan, the man they had tried to frame for stabbing her. Authorities arrested Brendan Banfield in September on charges of aggravated murder.
Banfield’s lawyer, John F. Carroll, said in court before he was denied bail in September that the evidence “just doesn’t add up” to him killing his wife.
In October, Magalhães agreed to cooperate with the police in her second interview since the day of the crime. Days later, on Tuesday, two weeks before she was scheduled to go to trial on charges of second-degree murder and felony firearm use, Magalhães pleaded guilty to Ryan’s killing, saying she had agreed to help the husband’s ruse to kill the wife and make it look like they both shot a predator.
“Are you entering your guilty plea because you are in fact guilty of this offense?” Chief Judge Penney Azcarate asked Magalhães before accepting her plea to a single count of manslaughter, reduced from murder and a firearm offense.
“Yes,” she replied, softly.
The sentencing of Magalhães, who was raised in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, now awaits the conclusion of Brendan Banfield’s trial. Depending on her cooperation with authorities, attorneys said in court that they may agree for her to be sentenced to the time she’s already served.
“Much of the information that led to this agreement cannot be made public at this time, due to the upcoming criminal trial against the other defendant in this matter,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano said.
Renowned French actor Anouk Grinberg says the sexual assault trial against fellow actor Gérard Depardieu reflects the slow path toward awareness of sex abuse in France, especially in the film industry, after years of silence.
Grinberg, 61, who has appeared in about 30 films, spoke Monday at what was supposed to be the start of Depardieu’s trial but which was postponed until March because of concerns over the 75-year-old actor’s health.
She has known Depardieu for over three decades, appearing with him in a 1991 film and in the film “The Green Shutters.” The trial centers around the alleged sexual assault of two women, a production designer and a director’s assistant, on the set of the latter film in 2021.
Depardieu has denied any wrongdoing. In recent months, Grinberg has decided to speak out on the need for change, joining other French actors who decided to shine a light on the repulsive underside of the country’s industry.
“For several years, I witnessed this … without any reaction, like everyone else,” she told The Associated Press. “Because I was overwhelmed by the violence and also because at the time, we didn’t think of it as violence.”
Yet with the #MeToo movement and more women speaking out, something “has changed” in recent years, she said. “And I’ve taken the measure of this violence.”
Grinberg also said she personally knows actor Charlotte Arnould, who accuses Depardieu of two rapes allegedly committed in August 2018 in a separate case. Depardieu was charged in 2020 with rape and sexual assault in that case, but a magistrate has yet to decide whether to send it to trial.
“What’s complicated in cases of sexual violence is that most of the time, women don’t move, don’t defend themselves. And it’s not because they consent, it’s because they’re just petrified. Something has died inside them, paralyzed by terror, by disgust,” Grinberg said.
“That’s where we have to educate the society as well as the justice system,” she added.
Grinberg described with graphic details Depardieu’s obscene comments she said he kept making on “The Green Shutters” film set.
“The society as a whole has really been a great accomplice in these actions, these excesses, these deviances,” Grinberg said. “I’ve been a witness, on movie sets who were entirely silent or sniggering at this verbal violence.”
She said many in the cinema world remained silent because they were afraid they would not be able to work anymore if they spoke out against powerful people in the industry.
Depardieu’s trial shows that times have changed, especially since the alleged victims did not have high-profile roles. The “little hands” working in the cinema industry “are speaking out and saying enough is enough. Enough is really enough,” Grinberg said.
Earlier this year, French actor Judith Godrèche called on France’s film industry to “face the truth” on sexual violence and physical abuse during the Cesar Awards ceremony, France’s version of the Oscars. “We can decide that men accused of rape no longer rule the (French) cinema,” Godrèche said.
A judge in a rural Kentucky county was fatally shot in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder in the killing, police said.
The preliminary investigation indicates Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines shot District Judge Kevin Mullins multiple times following an argument inside the courthouse, according to Kentucky State Police. Mullins, who held the judgeship for 15 years, died at the scene, and Stines surrendered without incident.
The fatal shooting in Whitesburg sent shock waves through a tight-knit Appalachian town and county seat of government with about 1,700 residents located about 145 miles (235 kilometers) southeast of Lexington.
Lead county prosecutor Matt Butler described an outpouring of sympathy as he recused himself and his office from investigations in the shooting, citing social and family ties to Mullins.
“We all know each other here. … Anyone from Letcher County would tell you that Judge Mullins and I married sisters and that we have children who are first cousins but act like siblings,” Butler said in statement from his office. “For that reason, among others, I have already taken steps to recuse myself and my entire office.”
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman said his office will collaborate with a commonwealth’s attorney in the region as special prosecutors in the criminal case.
“We will fully investigate and pursue justice,” Coleman said on social media.
Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Laurance B. VanMeter said he was “shocked by this act of violence” and that the court system was “shaken by this news.” Letcher County’s judge-executive signed an order closing on Friday the county courthouse where the shooting took place.
Mullins, 54, was hit multiple times in the shooting, Kentucky State Police said. Stines, 43, was charged with one count of first-degree murder. The investigation is continuing, police said.
It was unclear whether Stines had an attorney. Kentucky State Police referred inquires about Stines’ legal representation Thursday to a spokesperson who did not immediately respond by email.
Responding to the shooting, Gov. Andy Beshear said in a social media post: “There is far too much violence in this world, and I pray there is a path to a better tomorrow.”
Mullins served as a district judge in Letcher County since he was appointed by former Gov. Steve Beshear in 2009 and elected the following year.
Mullins was known for promoting substance abuse treatment for people involved in the justice system and helped hundreds of residents enter inpatient residential treatment, according to a program for a drug summit he spoke at in 2022. Mullins also helped create a program offering courthouse peer support for addiction treatment and worked with various healthcare organizations and providers.
After the shooting, several area schools were briefly placed on lockdown.
An Alaska man accused of sending graphic threats to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has been indicted on federal charges, authorities said Thursday.
Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 465 messages through a public court website, including graphic threats of assassination and torture coupled with racist and homophobic rhetoric.
The indictment does not specify which justices Anastasiou targeted, but Attorney General Merrick Garland said he made the graphic threats as retaliation for decisions he disagreed with.
“Our democracy depends on the ability of public officials to do their jobs without fearing for their lives or the safety of their families,” he said.
Anastasiou has been indicted on 22 counts, including nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce.
He was released from detention late Thursday by a federal magistrate in Anchorage with a a list of conditions, including that he not directly or indirectly contact any of the six Supreme Court justices he allegedly threatened or any of their family members.
During the hearing that lasted more than hour, Magistrate Kyle Reardon noted some of the messages Anastasiou allegedly sent between March 2023 and mid-July 2024, including calling for the assassination of two of the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices so the current Democratic president could appoint their successors.
Instead of toning down his rhetoric after receiving a visit from FBI agents last year, Anastasiou increased the frequency of his messages and their vitriolic language, Reardon said.
Gray-haired and shackled at the ankles above his salmon-colored plastic slippers, Anastasiou wore a yellow prison outfit with ACC printed in black on the back, the initials for the Anchorage Correctional Facility, at the hearing. Born in Greece, he moved to Anchorage 67 years ago. Reardon allowed him to contact his elected officials on other matters like global warming, but said the messages must be reviewed by his lawyers.
Defense attorney Jane Imholte noted Anastasiou is a Vietnam veteran who is undergoing treatment for throat cancer and has no financial means other than his Social Security benefits.
She told the judge that Anastaiou, who signed his own name to the emails, worried about his pets while being detained. She said he only wanted to return home to care for his dogs, Freddie, Buddy and Cutie Pie.
He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for each count of making threats against a federal judge and up to five years for each count of making threats in interstate commerce if convicted.
Threats targeting federal judges overall have more than doubled in recent years amid a surge of similar violent messages directed at public officials around the country, the U.S. Marshals Service previously said.
In 2022, shortly after the leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a man was stopped near the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh with weapons and zip ties.
A man whose courtroom attack on a judge in Las Vegas was recorded on video has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder and other charges.
Deobra Delone Redden ended his trial Thursday after Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus testified that she feared for her life when Redden vaulted over her bench and desk and landed on her. The attack happened Jan. 3 as Holthus was about to deliver Redden’s sentence in a separate felony attempted battery case.
Redden’s defense attorney, Carl Arnold, said in a statement Friday that the plea “reflects a delicate balance between accepting responsibility for a regrettable incident and recognizing the impact of Mr. Redden’s untreated mental illness at the time.”
Arnold told jurors who began hearing evidence on Tuesday that Redden had not taken prescribed medication to control his diagnosed schizophrenia. Holthus testified that she felt “defenseless” during the attack and that court officials and attorneys who came to her aid saved her life, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Law clerk Michael Lasso told the jury he saw Holthus’ head hit the floor and Redden grab her hair. “I absolutely thought, ‘He’s going to kill her,’” Lasso testified. He said he wrestled Redden away, punched him to try to subdue him and saw Redden hitting a corrections officer who also intervened.
An armed courtroom marshal suffered a bleeding gash on his forehead and a dislocated shoulder, according to court officials and witnesses. Holthus was not hospitalized and returned to work after treatment for her injuries. A prosecutor for more than 27 years, she was elected to the state court bench in 2018.
Redden, 31, is already serving prison time for other felony battery convictions. Prosecutor John Giordani said Friday he could face up to 86 years for his pleas to eight felonies, which also included battery of a protected person age 60 or older resulting in substantial bodily harm, intimidating a public officer and battery by a prisoner.
Clark County District Court Judge Susan Johnson ruled that Redden was competent and capable of entering his plea, the Review-Journal reported. Sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 7.
Arnold said in his statement that he will ask Johnson to order mental health treatment for his client behind bars.
Giordani said Redden told three correctional staff members after the attack that he tried to kill Holthus.
“While he clearly has past mental issues, he made a choice that day and failed to control his homicidal impulses,” the prosecutor said.
A powerful Mexican drug cartel leader on Thursday made his second appearance in federal court in Texas after being taken into U.S. custody last week.
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 76, used a wheelchair for the hearing before U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso. Zambada, the longtime leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, eluded authorities for decades until a plane carrying him and Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of notorious drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán,” landed at an airport near El Paso on July 25. Both men were arrested and remain jailed. They are charged in the U.S. with various drug crimes.
Discussions during the short hearing Thursday included whether Zambada would be tried with co-defendants or separately. He is being held without bond and pleaded not guilty during a short hearing last week, where he also used a wheelchair.
His next hearing date was set for Sept. 9. His attorneys declined to comment after Thursday’s hearing.
One of his attorneys, Frank Perez, previously has alleged his client was kidnapped by Guzmán López and brought to the U.S. aboard a private plane. Guzmán López, 38, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to drug trafficking and other charges in federal court in Chicago.
Zambada was thought to be more involved in day-to-day operations of the cartel than his better-known and flashier boss, “El Chapo,” who was sentenced to life in prison in the U.S. in 2019.
Zambada is charged in a number of U.S. cases, including in New York and California. Prosecutors brought a new indictment against him in New York in February, describing him as the “principal leader of the criminal enterprise responsible for importing enormous quantities of narcotics into the United States.”
The capture of Zambada and Guzmán López has fueled theories about how federal authorities pulled it off and prompted Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to take the unusual step of issuing a public appeal to drug cartels not to fight each other.
A former Boston lawyer and prosecutor who was once named one of People magazine’s most eligible bachelors was sentenced Monday to between five and 10 years in state prison for rape.
Gary Zerola, 52, was found guilty last month after a jury deliberated for five hours and has been incarcerated since then. He was acquitted of a greater charge of aggravated rape and burglary.
Prosecutors said that Zerola, in January 2021, paid more than $2,000 for a night of drinking with a woman he was dating and her 21-year-old friend who’d just graduated from college. The friend became intoxicated and had to be helped back to her Beacon Hill apartment. Zerola later entered the apartment without permission and sexually assaulted the woman around 2 a.m. while she was sleeping, prosecutors said.
In a victim impact statement that was read in court, the woman said she’d tried desperately to not allow the incident to affect her, or to give Zerola any power over the rest of her life. But she said that participating in the trial had brought up “the significant and insidious effect this event has had on my life.”
“For months after the incident, I experienced nightly recurring nightmares reliving the assault. Even today, I still have nightmares of someone breaking into my apartment and trying to assault me,” the woman wrote. The Associated Press does not generally name victims of sexual assault.
“These cases are always difficult, and this victim deserves enormous credit for taking the stand and telling the jury what happened to her that night,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement after the verdict.
Zerola’s attorney Joseph Krowski Jr. said Monday that his client is appealing the conviction. He said the sentence wasn’t what they wanted, but was within or close to the recommended guideline range for somebody without a previous criminal record. He pointed out that Zerola had been acquitted on two of the three original charges.
Krowski Jr. said his client was doing “as well as could be expected under the circumstances” and was going to put his time to good use and come out of the experience for the better.
Zerola had previously been accused of other sexual assaults but wasn’t convicted in those cases. He had faced two rape charges in Suffolk County and was acquitted in 2023, according to the district’s attorney’s office. He also was charged in three sexual assault cases between 2006 and 2007, but was not convicted.
Zerola worked as an assistant district attorney in Essex County for one year, and in Suffolk County for two months in 2000, according to former District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office. He was arrested in January 2021.
The last of three masked men pleaded guilty to a failed attempt to extort $8.5 million from a wealthy Connecticut arts patron and her companion by threatening them with a deadly virus in a 2007 home invasion.
The 38-year-old Romanian citizen, Stefan Alexandru Barabas, had been on the run for about 15 years before finally being arrested as a fugitive in Hungary in 2022. He pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion, federal prosecutors announced.
Barabas is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 11 and could receive six to seven years in prison, if a plea agreement is accepted by the court, prosecutors said.
Three additional men in the case have already been convicted, including the two other masked intruders who prosecutors said entered the home in South Kent with Barabas brandishing fake guns. The men then bound and blindfolded millionaire philanthropist Anne Hendricks Bass and abstract artist Julian Lethbridge, injected them with a substance they claimed was a deadly virus and demanded the couple pay the $8.5 million or else be left to die.
After it became clear Bass and Lethbridge weren’t able to meet their demands, the men drugged the couple with a sleeping aid and fled in Bass’ Jeep Cherokee, prosecutors said.
The SUV was found abandoned at a Home Depot in New Rochelle, New York the next morning. Days later, an accordion case with a stun gun, 12-inch knife, a black plastic replica gun, a crowbar, syringes, sleeping pills, latex gloves and a laminated telephone card with the South Kent address was found washed ashore in Jamaica Bay, New York.
The accordion case and knife were eventually connected to the men, as well as a partial Pennsylvania license plate seen by a witness near Bass’ estate on the night of the home invasion, among other evidence.
Bass, credited with helping to raise the profile of ballet in the U.S., died in 2020. She was 78. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lethbridge said: “This has been an extremely long and arduous process. I am grateful for the professionalism and dogged work of various law enforcement authorities to bring these individuals to justice.”
“That said, I remain convinced based on the sophistication of the crime, as well as other facts, that there are others who participated in the planning and financing of this crime who have yet to be brought to book,” he said. “It is my continued hope that one day all who were involved will be known and that they too will be held to account.”
In 2012, during the trial of Emanuel Nicolescu, one of the intruders and Bass’ former house manager that she had fired, Bass tearfully described thinking she was going to die the night the three men burst into the home she shared with Lethbridge.
A suspect who was being held in a California jail on charges connected to a 2022 mass shooting in the state capital died in his cell Saturday, according to police and his attorney.
The 29-year-old male inmate died while in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail around 2:15 a.m., the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement posted on social media.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported public defender Norman Dawson identified the man as Smiley Martin, his client who was awaiting trial on three felony charges stemming from an April 3, 2022, shooting in Sacramento that killed six people and wounded 12 others, including two of the alleged shooters.
Jail deputies were conducting a cell check and found an unresponsive inmate. The deputies and then fire department personnel attempted life-saving procedures but he was pronounced dead, the sheriff’s office said.
The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office will determine the cause of death and release the man’s name after notification of his next of kin, according to the sheriff’s office, which said it will investigate.
Martin was “fighting to defend his innocence in the preliminary hearing process” at the time of his death, Dawson said in a written statement. More than 100 shots were fired in rapid-fire succession in a downtown entertainment area near the state Capitol building during the shooting around 2 a.m.
Two groups of men connected to gangs began shooting as bars and clubs emptied out at closing time, sending hundreds of people desperately trying to reach safety. At least five gunmen were involved, police said.
Martin, who was 27 at the time, was arrested while hospitalized with gunshot wounds. He was charged with murder, being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession and transport of a machine gun.
Authorities also arrested his brother, Dandrae Martin, 26 at the time, as a “related suspect” on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and being a convict carrying a loaded gun. He suffered minor wounds.