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Illness delays family murder trial in Kingston
Tooba Mohammad Yahya and husband Mohammad Shafia and their son Hamed Mohammed Shafia are escorted by police officers into the Frontenac County Court courthouse on the first day of trial in Kingston, Ontario on Thursday, October 20, 2011.
Updated: 11/03/2011 11:00A
Spot-fixing scandal timeline
Februrary 26: Aamer and Butt appeal bans in Court of Arbitration for Sport, followed by Asif on March 1 but hearings on hold until end of criminal proceedings in England. October 4: Asif and Butt trial begins at Southwark Crown Court.
Updated: 11/03/2011 11:00A
Police conduct another search of Mason County pond, area for missing Baby Kate
He is slated to stand trial on those charges on Jan. 17 in Mason County Circuit Court. Phillips, 21, the only suspect in this case, was arrested on June 29, the day the baby's mother, Ariel Courtland, reported that Phillips drove away with the child in
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:59A
Former Nicholas sheriff Garrett avoids jail time in theft case
He accepted the agreement just as testimony had begun in his trial in Nicholas Circuit Court on charges of theft and abuse of public trust. Garrett was accused of taking money from an asset forfeiture account and using it for his personal benefit.
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:58A
Top court ends U.S. bid to extradite Abdullah Khadr
The government had argued that by granting a stay of proceedings of the extradition hearings, lower courts failed to strike a balance between the benefits of granting a stay and those of "ensuring that alleged terrorists face trial,
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:58A
Constitutional challenge to (file sharing) damage award rebuffed
The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit was less sympathetic than the district court to a Boston College graduate student who was found to have used file sharing software to distribute copyrighted music, concluding that the district court erred
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:57A
Court: no layoffs thanks to supplemental budget
The Trial Court has no immediate layoff plans due to a supplemental budget signed last week by Gov. Deval L. Patrick. The measure directs $12 million in new assistance and $8 million in retained revenue to the court system. Judges and administrators in
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:57A
Attorneys: We played wrong version of 911 recording in Jabil exec's murder trial
On Thursday it was discovered that the recording played in court actually had a portion excerpted out. The excerpt appears to have been dead air, with no one saying anything. Sheriff's public safety dispatcher Leslie Perrico was brought back into court
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:57A
Acadiana's News Leader Scientology church appeals French fraud conviction
In that trial, prosecutors had tried to get the group disbanded in France and fined euro2 million ($2.8 million). But the court declined, in the end, to even take the lesser step of shutting down its operations, saying that French Scientologists would
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:57A
Oracle, Google again fail to settle Android lawsuit
Also Wednesday, Google received another setback in its bid to minimize the potential impact on a jury of an email sent by Google engineer Tim Lindholm in August 2010, shortly before Oracle filed suit. "What we've actually been asked to do by [Google
Updated: 11/03/2011 10:57A
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