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B.C. election gag law ruling upheld by court
"I agree with the trial judge," wrote Justice Catherine Ryan. "The effect of the impugned legislation overshoots its overall objective of electoral fairness. It follows that it cannot be said that the infringement minimally impairs the right of freedom
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:30P
US secret agent tells Bout trial of weapons list
The agent, a former drug trafficker turned highly paid US informant who is identified in court papers as Carlos, told the jury how he secretly recorded the meeting in a conference room on the 27th floor of the Sofitel hotel.
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:30P
I killed Jo Yeates over a kiss
But he said the Dutchman, who admits manslaughter but denies murder, was not on trial for that. He urged the Bristol Crown Court jury to focus on what happened in Jo's Clifton flat. The QC said Jo and Tabak spotted each other as he left his flat to go
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:22P
Trial of accused Baseline Killer goes to jury
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville explained the verdict forms and instructions with jury members before they began deliberating. Defense attorneys for Mark Goudeau made their closing arguments in the four-month trial Tuesday,
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:21P
EFCC accuses Fayose of delaying trial
Counsel to the EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs, told a Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, and presided over by Justice EA Obile, that the refusal of the defence counsel to allow trial to proceed was deliberate.
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:20P
Ohio woman released after 20 years in prison sues
Sixty-year-old Virginia LeFever filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Columbus. LeFever was sentenced to life in prison in 1990 in the killing of her husband. She was released from prison last year. The lawsuit alleges the city of Newark,
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:19P
Jurors in Conrad Murray Trial Gets Crash Course on Propofol
Jurors in the Conrad Murray trial got a crash course Wednesday on propofol, the drug blamed in the death of Michael Jackson. Defense attorneys in the Conrad Murray trial head to court on Wednesday. (ATVN) Dr. Steven Shafer, the doctor who
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:16P
Steelworkers President in Massachusetts Pleads Guilty; Sentenced
(Worcester County), pleaded to sufficient finding of facts in Trial Court of Massachusetts, District Court Department, to larceny from his union. He then was sentenced to administrative supervision until January 10, 2012 and ordered to make $2430 in
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:13P
Lifting Michael Jackson's chin could have saved his life, medical expert tells
The jury in the trial of Dr Conrad Murray, Jackson's private doctor, was also shown a dramatic video re-enacting how the singer stopped breathing after taking a deadly cocktail of drugs to help him sleep. Dr Shafer, an Ivy League professor,
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:09P
Murder trial in 2007 slaying delayed
Don Smith, the Linn trial court administrator, said Tuesday he was surprised to learn that the planned six-week trial had been delayed. “We had done a lot of preparation for this trial,” he said. Extra deputies had been assigned to be in the courtroom
Updated: 10/19/2011 07:09P
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