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Orlando Sentinel motions to release Casey deposition
The 8-page court paper filed by Sentinel attorney Rachel Fugate notes that the court has historically “rejected almost every request by the defense to seal judicial or public records and Ms. Anthony received a fair trial” in her criminal case.
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:18A
Separate trials for pair accused of killing toddler
The toddler died at Carolinas Medical Center the next day. A medical examiner said the cause was blunt trauma to the head, a result of physical assault or abuse. But Justice's lawyer, Ted Cummings of Hickory, said the Cleveland County district
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:15A
Rape and burglary suspect set for trial in 1990 cold case
A special judge, Billy Bridges, has been appointed to preside over the trial because a witness who is expected to testify works in Jackson County's Circuit Court department, said Assistant District Attorney Cherie Wade. Sunherald.com encourages an open
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:15A
White: A painful snapshot of life
Aekins was in Cumberland County Superior Court Tuesday, awaiting trial for first-degree murder and assault with intent to commit murder. I was there as a potential juror. I wasn't chosen to hear the case, but spent several hours in the courtroom as a
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:13A
Broadwater cared about details
That was especially true of the lower courts, where the case load was overwhelming and the human cost clearly apparent during the trials and sentencing. With Broadwater, though, there was always a sense that the law was the law, people were people and
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:12A
Eight let off in case of defrauding MTNL
PTI | 09:10 AM,Oct 30,2011 New Delhi, Oct 30 (PTI) A local court has acquitted an MTNL official and seven others accused of running telephone booths for making international calls through phones meant to make local calls and defrauding the state
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:12A
COURT-RAPE 2LAST
During trial, Rajesh pleaded not guilty saying he had been implicated by the girl and her mother for extorting money from him. The court, however, rejected his pleas saying a girl subjected to sexual assault cannot be treated as accomplice to the crime
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:12A
Longtime FLDS property trust case now before appeals court
The state of Utah appealed to the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, arguing that Benson overreached when he attempted to temporarily hand back control of the trust to the sect and he should not have been ruling on the case anyway because the
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:12A
Rockford federal courthouse dedicated, protestors march
Folks in Rockford gathered for the ribbon cutting on a brand new federal courthouse. The celebration was met with some opposition when a protest group marched to the event. Occupy Rockford made it's presence known marching to
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:10A
Ulysses Currie's defense leans on testimony of Md. politicians
It would have been easy in recent days to mistake Courtroom 5D as the site of a Maryland political convention rather than the forum for a public corruption trial. Prominent Democratic members of the state's congressional delegation have made
Updated: 10/30/2011 12:10A