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Occupy Sacramento loses restraining order motion; protesters want jury trials
With the help of 25 pro-bono defense lawyers, all demonstrators pleaded not guilty and requested jury trials. Legal Analyst Bill Portanova said if most of the almost 80 arrested demand a jury trial, it would create a bottleneck in the county court
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:54P
Jackson trial: jury to consider verdict
The jury in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray was tasked Thursday with considering its verdict, after prosecution and defense lawyers presented their closing arguments. trial of Murray, accused of involuntary manslaughter over the
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:53P
Trial date set for man accused of killing Canton cabbie
If convicted of fatally shooting Jerry Laury, 61, of Roe Court SE, on Aug. 14 in New Franklin, Benitez Maranon could spend the rest of his life in prison. He is not eligible for the death penalty. Police have said Laury, a driver for Yellow Cab Co.,
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:52P
When justice is court short
TASMANIANS needing access to justice will be the big losers if the state's pool of private criminal lawyers continues to shrink, says the Law Society of Tasmania. Director of Public Prosecutions Tim Ellis, SC, said Tasmania's shrinking criminal Bar was
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:51P
Tainted Witness
The Supreme Court heard argument this week on a critical question about the use of witness identification. In Perry v. New Hampshire, the State Supreme Court ruled that a trial judge cannot exclude witness identification based on suggestive
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:51P
Brothers forgive man who killed parents
He was sent to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino for more than a year until being deemed competent to stand trial. He then pleaded guilty last month to two counts of murder. Thursday afternoon he was sentenced by Vista Superior Court Judge Aaron
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:50P
Malik seeks details about spot-fixing trial
ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik Thursday, in his meeting with the British High Commissioner in Pakistan Adam Thomson, requested him to seek complete details about spot fixing trial of three Pakistani cricketers in a court of UK.
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:48P
Killer's Supreme Court appeal rejected
In August, Davis sought leave from the Court of Appeal to contest his conviction on the basis that the trial judge erred in three aspects of the handling of his case. One was that on the first day of his trial a juror rang the High Court registrar
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:48P
Murder trial photo sparks challenge
The description was part of opening statements as the murder and kidnapping trial of three of Jackson's alleged captors got under way in Albany County Court. Ricky "L" Thornton, 41, Louis "God" Chaney, 43, and Jason "Jay" Benn, 38, face 25 years to
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:46P
Relatives protest Pakistan spot-fixing sentences but public back judge
Photograph: M Kashif/AP In Pakistan the cricketers' relatives, waiting by mobile phones often in the gaze of television cameras, were visibly stunned by the custodial sentences handed down by a British court in the spot-fixing case against the Pakistan
Updated: 11/03/2011 08:46P
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