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Terror suspect Aldawsari to use insanity defense
Days after asking a federal judge to order a competency examination, attorneys for an accused terrorist announced Wednesday they plan to use an insanity defense at trial. Terror suspect Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari is escorted to his initial court appearance
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:44P
Georgia judicial body investigates Glynn County Superior Court Judge Amanda
If she contests the charges, she'll go to trial about mid-January. The verdict would be filed with the Supreme Court, whose justices will vote on accepting its recommendation and access a punishment, from a reprimand to suspension or even removal from
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:44P
torture trial hears victims become dependent on their abusers
Court has heard he was battered, bruised and emaciated when he was dropped off at a Regina hospital in April 2010. Mohandie, who has written on human captivity and victimization, was asked to give a possible explanation as to why the accuser didn't
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:43P
Retrial over Rivervale murder conviction
In a judgment handed down today, three Court of Appeal judges were split in their decision, with Justice Carmel McLure dismissing the appeal, while Justice Robert Mazza and Justice Michael Buss upheld the appeal and ordered a retrial.
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:42P
Historic status denied for Lustron house
The trial court had barred Prineas' version of what KAC said as hearsay. Prineas was sentenced to 10 years in prison. But the appellate court found that it should have been allowed as a "state of mind" exception to the hearsay rule.
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:41P
Survivor identifies Nanta in ambush slay of three
Zone 2, Cadiz City, by virtue of arrest warrants for rebellion, robbery-in-band, attempted and frustrated murder issued by Judges Moises Nifras of the San Carlos City Regional Trial Court, Jose Aguirre of the Himamaylan City Regional Trial Court and
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:40P
Kori Marra trial continues
When the judge continued to sustain the objection, the defense said the court was showing favoritism for not allowing the evidence to be submitted to the jury. The defense requested a mistrial, which Baales denied. Earlier, Jaime Munivez had been the
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:35P
Bridgecorp director's guilty plea seen as vindication
The Crown prosecutor in the trial of four Bridgecorp directors says a surprise guilty plea by one of them vindicates the decision to prosecute. At the High Court in Auckland Gary Urwin, a non-executive director, has admitted 10 charges of making untrue
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:34P
Statutory case continued after lawyers' dispute
According to court records, Ms. Blevins represented the state in the McCarthy case. “If we were presented with this McCarthy case, we would have insisted upon a jury trial,” he said. Mr. Radke stated the information on the McCarthy case may point to
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:32P
Canal trial hears Shafia say daughters were liars
The father accused in the deaths of his three teenage daughters and another woman told a police interrogator his children were liars, a Kingston, Ont. court heard Wednesday. Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their son,
Updated: 11/09/2011 11:31P
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