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Bookie Majeed pleads guilty in spot-fixing trial, accepts paying bribe to trio
Majeed, 36, admitted conspiracy to cheat and to obtain and accept corrupt payments during a pre-trial hearing in September but that fact could not be reported till today due to court restrictions. Judge Jeremy Cooke, who is set to pronounce the quantum
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:45P
Top rights activist goes on trial in Belarus
The Lithuanian justice ministry said the information it had provided to Belarus could not be used as evidence in the trial. "Several months ago we officially informed Belarus authorities that we had recalled the information provided by the Lithuanian
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:42P
Scientist jailed in California cleared for freedom
US District Judge John Keenan said he would sign the order freeing Mahmoud Reza Banki while prosecutors appeal an Oct. 24 federal appeals court decision that tossed out the trade embargo conviction and ordered a new trial on charges that he
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:41P
Supreme Court considers when judges can exclude eyewitness testimony in
Justice Antonin Scalia asked, "Why is unreliable eyewitness identification any different from unreliable anything else? So shouldn't we look at every instance of evidence introduced in criminal cases to see if it was reliable or not?
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:39P
Shooting Suspect Changes Plea
Sheridan resident Eddie Delk changed his plea in 4th Judicial District Court Wednesday. Sheridan Media's Ron Richter was there and has the details. Delk plead “No Contest” to Felony Aggravated Assault and Battery.
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:38P
Man charged in death of Upper Peninsula trial witness, 81
The Associated Press sent a message Wednesday seeking comment from lawyer believed to be representing him. Court documents reviewed by The Daily News of Iron Mountain indicate Johnson was scheduled to testify in the trial for Levack, who was accused of
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:37P
Kingston Murder Trial: Yahya Matriarch Cried During Interrogation, Court Hears
KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury in eastern Ontario is watching video of a six-hour interrogation of a woman accused of killing four people, including her three daughters. Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, weeps for minutes on end before the interrogating officer comes
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:37P
GA high court to hear assisted suicide appeal
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's highest court is set to review an appeal by four members of a suicide group charged with helping a cancer-stricken man kill himself. The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear the arguments Monday. The four were indicted by a
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:21P
Texas woman on death row gets new sentencing trial
HOUSTON—One of 10 women on death row in Texas won a new sentencing trial Wednesday after an appeals court agreed that prosecutors improperly withheld evidence at her original punishment hearing.
Updated: 11/02/2011 12:12P
Wife who grabbed car handbrake at 60mph killing her husband is found guilty of
'You must prepare yourself for all options of sentencing; a custodial sentence may be inevitable in this case.' During the two-day trial the jury heard that Mrs Meeking and her husband had between them drunk two bottles of rose wine and they later had
Updated: 11/02/2011 11:50A
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