- RI police officer to stand trial on rape charge
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AP - A Providence police officer accused of raping a woman in a deserted police substation and then showing up to take a report after she called 911 heads to trial this week at an already difficult time for the department.
- Calif. rape suspect lived by school for 16 months
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AP - A convicted sex offender charged with murdering a California teenager lived near a preschool for at least 16 months before parole agents forced him to move, according to state corrections records released Wednesday.
- Texas polygamist guilty of child sexual assault
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AP - Prosecutors say a member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been found guilty of sexual assault of a child.
- Idaho high court: No new trials for 6 on death row
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AP - The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convictions called on juries, not judges, to impose the death penalty.
- Grand jury indicts ex-Madoff programmers
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Reuters - A U.S. grand jury formalized criminal charges on Wednesday against two former computer programmers at swindler Bernard Madoff's firm, alleging they conspired with others to falsify investor records using a special program.
- Jury recommends death for Ohioan in teen slayings
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AP - A jury has recommended the death penalty for an Ohio registered sex offender jurors convicted of killing two teenage Cincinnati girls and burning their bodies.
- Judge rejects request to delay Blagojevich trial
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AP - A federal judge refused Wednesday to postpone the June start of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial, brushing aside defense attorneys' claims that they won't have enough time to prepare.
- 2 killed in Calif. attack were immigrant smugglers
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AP - Authorities say two men killed in a Southern California home last week were smuggling illegal immigrants and got into a fight over profits from their human cargo.
- Oprah defamation case can go to trial
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Reuters - Whenever the media cover Oprah Winfrey litigation -- whether it be with poets, flight attendants, physical trainers, or diet pill makers -- it's usually with an air of dismissiveness. She's a billionaire media personality and can hire the best lawyers -- who's going to beat her in court?
- Rapper DMX sentenced to six months in Arizona jail
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Reuters - An Arizona judge sentenced rapper and actor DMX on Tuesday to six months in a Phoenix jail for violating his probation by regularly using drugs, court officials said.
- Evidence skirmish could delay end of Prop 8 trial
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AP - An attempt by civil rights groups to keep sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban from obtaining internal campaign documents could delay a verdict in the federal trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, lawyers on both sides said Tuesday.
- Police: Man may have had images of missing women
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AP - Relatives and friends of four women who have been missing since the 1970s told investigators they recognized their loved ones in photos found in the locker of a convicted serial killer, police said Tuesday.
- Bin Laden will never face US trial, be caught alive: Holder
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AFP - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday.
- U.S. suspect in Mumbai attacks to change plea
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Reuters - The American charged with scouting targets for the 2008 assault on Mumbai that killed more than 160 people will plead guilty this week, court records showed on Thursday.
- Conyers gets court-appointed lawyer for appeal
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AP - Former Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers is relying on a court-appointed lawyer to pursue an appeal of her prison sentence for corruption.
- Holder defends criminal trials for 9/11 suspects
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Reuters - Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended plans to prosecute some terrorism suspects in traditional criminal courts, urging lawmakers to avoid politicizing the decision and inflaming public fears.
- US suspect in Mumbai siege, Danish plot to plead guilty
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AFP - The charismatic Chicago man accused of being a scout for the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege and a plot to kill a Danish cartoonist is set to plead guilty to terrorism charges, US court records showed Tuesday.
- APNewsBreak: Lawyer says cops eyeing freed NC man
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AP - A North Carolina man exonerated of a prostitute's murder in a groundbreaking innocence hearing agreed Tuesday to let police test the clothing he wore more than 18 years ago for the victim's DNA.
- Judge: Son's DNA can be used at father's trial
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AP - DNA taken from the young son of a man accused of killing a college student and raping two other women can be used as evidence in his upcoming trial to try to link the suspect to the crimes, a judge ruled.
- Woman who drove into lake, killing kids, sentenced
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AP - A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling the court she had been drinking alcohol that night.