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Eastern Ky. man sentenced in federal court for vote buying in 2010 general
The US attorney's office says evidence at trial showed 55-year-old Randall E. Salyer paid two people $100 each to bring him their absentee ballots last November. He was convicted in July of two counts of vote buying and acquitted of two other counts.
Updated: 11/09/2011 08:14P
Utah drops accomplice-to-rape charges against Warren Jeffs (video)
Fifth District Judge James Shumate's signature brought to a close a high-stakes case that originally won prosecutors a guilty verdict, but faltered as the Utah Supreme Court overturned Jeffs' conviction and questions arose about forged evidence.
Updated: 11/09/2011 08:12P
Jury pens deadlock note in parking-punch trial; judge orders them back on Monday
The judge did not declare a mistrial; he sent jurors home with instructions that when they return to court Monday for what will be their fourth day of deliberations, they are to keep working. Fuller faces a maximum of seven years prison if convicted of
Updated: 11/09/2011 08:11P
Warren Jeffs Has Utah Charges Dropped
The Associated Press reported that Jeff was convicted of rape by accomplice in 2007 but was thrown out by the Utah Supreme Court because of improper jury instruction by the judge who presided over the case. The Deseret News of Utah reported that during
Updated: 11/09/2011 08:10P
Ellsworth company wins employee discrimination case
A jury of seven women and two men reached the verdict Wednesday afternoon at the end of a three-day trial in Hancock County Superior Court. Earl Richardson of Franklin had been seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages against former
Updated: 11/09/2011 08:10P
U of C defends right to discipline students who criticized prof on Facebook
Twin brothers Steven Pridgen, left, and Keith Pridgen found out on October 13, 2010, that they had won their court case against the University of Calgary after they were reprimanded for
Updated: 11/09/2011 08:09P
Jones trial: Infant died of blunt force trauma
Kenneth Jones looks back into the audience during his trial, in which he is accused of capital murder in the 2009 death of 14-month-old Gabriel Barfield, at the Lee County Justice Center in Opelika on Wednesday, Nov. 9. The capital murder trial of a
Updated: 11/09/2011 08:06P
AT&T, US argue over witnesses in antitrust trial
AT&T, T-Mobile USA Inc and Deutsche Telekom AG, case No. 11-1560; Sprint Nextel Corp v. AT&T Inc et al, No. 11-1600; and Cellular South v. AT&T, No. 11-1690. The three challenges are all before the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
Updated: 11/09/2011 07:44P
Alleged victim exhibited signs of 'frozen fright,' torture trial told
CALGARY — An American expert on human captivity says Dustin Paxton's alleged victim could have been conditioned into captivity through violence and "traumatic bonding," court heard Wednesday. Kris Mohandie, a forensic and police psychologist,
Updated: 11/09/2011 07:43P
Brunswick judge hit with ethics charges
The judge at one time named her daughter, attorney FrancesWilliams Dyal, a court-appointed guardian in a child custody case. Williams is also accused of unbecoming behavior on the bench for "failing to be patient, dignified, and courteous to
Updated: 11/09/2011 07:42P
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