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Teenager's '76 slaying to finally to see court in Oklahoma
He was charged with her killing last year after DNA evidence linking him to the body was obtained from a 1978 case. Kennedy is serving a life sentence in that case for strangling and mutilating a 15-year-old prostitute. A forensic scientist testified
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:11A
Odd talk in prison-death trial
He appeared in court this week to testify on behalf of the prosecution. Four men tied to the Native Syndicate street gang are charged with Tavares' killing. Charles Coaster, Evan Myran, Alvin Cote and Victor Ryle have pleaded not guilty and are
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:08A
Board seeks to discipline North Dakota judge
A district judge ruled last year that Feland did not break any rules on providing materials during the trial process. But the Supreme Court disciplinary board said Feland either knew or should have known the memo was not presented to defense attorney
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:07A
Crown College fraudster dodges jail time, sentenced to home detention
US District Court Judge Robert J. Bryan sentenced Byers to 90 days of home detention and three years on probation. She was also required to contribute toward the $42000 in restitution ordered in the case. Prosecutors have asked that McMullin, 38,
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:07A
Jenner & Block LLP | Chris Gair Admitted To American College of Trial Lawyers
Mr. Gair also recently prosecuted a substantial claim for fraudulent transfer and equitable subordination on behalf of the liquidation trustee for the defunct Sentinel in a six-week trial in federal court in Chicago. In the last few years,
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:06A
Selenski trial date delayed to next year
The judge said that to force the case to trial would most likely result in having to try the case again. “It is the court's intention to do this case once,” Van Jura said. On Tuesday via court papers, Selenski asked that new attorneys be assigned to
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:05A
Experts: New district attorney's staff key
Olszewski, who served as district attorney from 1992 to 2000, noted Salavantis isn't the first district attorney to have little prosecutorial experience. Former district attorney and now Superior Court Judge Correale Stevens also had little criminal
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:05A
Bali boy could learn fate on Friday
The 14-year-old, from Morisset Park near Newcastle, will appear in the Denpasar District Court on Friday when prosecutors are set to make their sentence request. It is also possible the judge will rule on the case immediately after the sentence request
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:04A
20-year-old Montevideo,Minn., man sentenced for burglary while resident slept
25 court trial before Judge Slieter. Facebook messages — some of them made on a laptop the defendant is accused of stealing —provided evidence in his conviction. In a findings of fact attached to the verdicts, the court cited the messages as showing
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:04A
Five Northern Michigan hockey players charged in bike thefts
Each of the five players is a freshman at the school and faces trial next month in Marquette County District Court on the misdemeanor charges. They also are going through the university's student disciplinary process for university code violations and
Updated: 11/10/2011 01:04A
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