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Pakistan cricketers guilty in match-fixing scandal
Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif faced jail after they were found guilty of fixing parts of a Test match against England in a case that has rocked the international game. And after the verdicts were handed down by a jury at a packed
Updated: 11/01/2011 09:15P
No new exam of mom accused in baby's death
(AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to hear a request from Boulder County prosecutors who wanted to have their own medical expert determine whether a mother accused in her baby's death is legally insane. Prosecutors wanted their expert to
Updated: 11/01/2011 09:07P
Assange awaits ruling, WikiLeaks fate
Its finances under pressure and some of its biggest revelations already public, WikiLeaks may not have the strength to survive if Britain's High Court judge decides on Wednesday in favour of a Swedish request to extradite Assange to face trial over
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:27P
Accused Tucson shooter seeks end to medication
The two sides argued their case on Tuesday at hearing in San Francisco before a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. In the hearing, the judges sought to ascertain whether continuing to forcibly medicate Loughner with
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:26P
Loughner lawyers go to court over anti-psychotic medication
The appeals court did not rule Tuesday. A judge found Loughner, 23, mentally incompetent to stand trial in May and sent him to a prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., for treatment. Loughner refused to take the anti-psychotic medications.
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:25P
County rests its case in redistricting trial; city's move for dismissal denied
With that, the city will begin presenting its case at 9 am Monday, in what's expected to be another full day in court. In dispute is whether the city failed to make a good-faith effort to craft a ward map that fit into the boundaries of a tentative
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:23P
Two Pakistani cricketers found guilty in spot-fixing trial
The judge in the case accepted Majeed was involved in the scam. The court heard he used his influence as agent to some of the players to set up the deceit in return for payment of £150000 ($239865) from an undercover journalist posing as a businessman
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:18P
Alcohol a major factor in failure of rape cases
In about a third of cases the prosecution went to the District Court, and in the remainder was on indictment to the Circuit Criminal Court or, in the case of murder or rape, the Central Criminal Court. The report shows a slight fall in the number of
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:17P
Testimony over in Jackson trial
"The court finds the defendant has knowingly, freely and explicitly waived his right to testify," the judge said. Murray had left open the possibility of testifying on Monday, when he told the judge that he had not made a final decision.
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:17P
Jackson's doctor won't testify
questions of his trial, saying he would stay away from the witness stand. The doctor held his hands together over his mouth in a prayerful pose before Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor asked the cardiologist whether he intended to take the stand.
Updated: 11/01/2011 08:17P
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