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Lake Charles man pleads guilty to manslaughter
A Lake Charles man scheduled for trial this week for the 2010 fatal shooting of Aldwin Smith pleaded guilty to manslaughter before state district court Judge Kent Savoie. Authorities said the shooting likely stemmed from an argument between the two men
Updated: 11/10/2011 10:10A
Court Adjourns Sacked Unilever Workers' Suit Till Dec 6
Pre-trial sessions had ended in the matter, which came up, yesterday, while it was adjourned for definite hearing. The sacked workers are praying the court to declare their dismissal, without payment of their entitlements and benefits, as wrongful,
Updated: 11/10/2011 10:08A
No conspiracy, rioters intended to kill:Sardarpura...
More particularly, when the mob was from the same locality," the court concluded. As to the credibility of witnesses who identified the accused at the trial but not at the time of giving statements to the police in 2002, the court said the witnesses
Updated: 11/10/2011 10:05A
SD Supreme Court upholds manslaughter conviction of Sioux Falls man in 2009
Fisher argued that his conviction should be overturned because police badgered a confession out of him. The Supreme Court said the trial judge was correct to let the jury hear Fisher's confession to a police officer.
Updated: 11/10/2011 09:59A
Roxbury woman admits she lied to grand jury investigating murder of 13-year
20 in Suffolk Superior Court. She pleaded guilty on Tuesday. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley's office will ask that Gunn be sentenced to prison time for the woman, who they say lied to a grand jury investigating the Jan.
Updated: 11/10/2011 09:59A
Texas Woman Gets 14 years for Arson
Kindrell Monique Sanders, 30, was found guilty of first-degree arson Tuesday evening by a 238th District Court jury and sentenced for the Dec. 10, 2006, incident. Sanders, then 25, had found her boyfriend dancing with another girl at King's nightclub
Updated: 11/10/2011 09:58A
Jurors to visit site of Mendes killing
By CAPE COD TIMES BARNSTABLE - Jurors in the Robert Vacher murder trial are expected to take a field trip this morning to visit sites related to the case. A bus was parked outside Barnstable Superior Court earlier this morning that will transport the
Updated: 11/10/2011 09:58A
Father accused in canal killings tells interrogator kids were 'liars'
A videotape of the two-hour interrogation was played Wednesday at the trial of the Montreal man, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their son Hamed, 20, who are each charged with four counts of first-degree murder. They have pleaded not guilty.
Updated: 11/10/2011 09:56A
Jennifer Papain Vanishes After Craigslist Meeting, Chad Johnson on Trial for
Papain's story is similar to those of Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello and Melissa Barthelemy—the four missing young women whose bodies were found in the roadside brush near Gilgo Beach seven months later. Like these women
Updated: 11/10/2011 09:56A
Holland to close the net on old genocide suspects
Instead, they are forced to submit alternative charges of war crimes or torture, like in the recent trial of Rwandan asylum seeker Joseph Mpambara. The Dutch district court in The Hague sentenced him to life imprisonment in July for war crimes during
Updated: 11/10/2011 09:55A
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