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Chaos in criminal court after judge grants recusal
A high-profile murder trial that was to be personally prosecuted by Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro was scrapped today when a judge granted defense attorneys' request for a recusal, the latest blow-up in the ongoing tension over the
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:30P
A 'reprehensible' question
Three are awaiting sentence after a Supreme Court trial last year. Two co-accused were acquitted. The conversation was led as evidence yesterday against Victoria Police officer Simon Justin Artz, who is accused of leaking information to Stewart about
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:29P
St. Alphonsus hospital to pay $52M to former partner
The award is one of the largest to ever come out of the Idaho district courts. It's the second time the lawsuit, brought by MRI Associates against Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, has gone to trial. The first trial ended in a $63 million
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:29P
Cricket: Agent pleads guilty over fixing
/Philip Brown Sports agent Mazhar Majeed pleaded guilty to spot fixing charges and told a British criminal court that a fourth unnamed Pakistan cricketer was involved with former captain Salman Butt in corrupting the sport, the Press Association
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:28P
Countess in trouble
The case (I 2265/2009) was first set for trial in the Windhoek High Court before Acting Judge Ueitele on 6 July 2010 but was postponed after the main witness for Sunsail Charters, former husband Mller, made certain allegations against von Korf's legal
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:27P
Opening statements, testimony to begin in anti-drone protest trial in DeWitt
By Jim O'Hara / The Post-Standard DeWitt, NY - Opening statements in the trial of anti-drone protesters charged in a “die-in” at the New York Air National Guard base at Hancock Field are scheduled to be delivered this evening in DeWitt town court.
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:23P
Boston man says he was beaten for recording police
Maury Paulino said in the suit filed in US District Court that one officer punched, kneed, and doused his face with pepper-spray while the other officers stood by and did nothing to stop it. Paulino, 19 at the time of the November 2009 arrest,
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:22P
Others involved in fixing, says agent
LONDON (Reuters) - Sports agent Mazhar Majeed pleaded guilty to spot fixing charges and told a British criminal court that a fourth unnamed Pakistan cricketer was involved with former captain Salman Butt in corrupting the sport, the Press Association
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:22P
Defense argues for dismissal of 5 perjury charges
Broderick, 54, appeared Tuesday for the hearing in 8th Judicial District Court, where his attorneys said some of the felony charges were taken out of context or fail to show he was lying, among other arguments. The Larimer County grand jury indictment
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:22P
Ex-priest takes case to top court
By QMI Agency A former priest ordered to be retried for a decades-old sexual offence is taking his case to the Supreme Court. Charles Picot was acquitted last year on a 1975 charge of indecent assault on a 13-year-old boy. Picot was parish priest at
Updated: 11/02/2011 02:21P