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Q&A: Convicted killer Beach shares hopes and plans after winning new trial
4:32 am HELENA — In perhaps the most anticipated decision of his career, Fergus County District Court Judge E. Wayne Phillips on Tuesday granted convicted murderer Barry Allen Beach the right to a new trial. Beach was convicted in 1985 for the 1979
Updated: 11/26/2011 08:24P
Henry County judge postpones murder trial over confession
AP NEW CASTLE, Ind. — A central Indiana judge has postponed for the fourth time the murder trial of a man accused of setting a fire that killed a 64-year-old woman. Henry Circuit Court Judge Mary Willis moved Donald Guffey's trial on arson and felony
Updated: 11/26/2011 08:13P
Alaska Court of Appeals upholds 7-year sentence for man convicted of
The trial judge referred Garner's case to the three-judge panel, which is authorized to sentence him outside a range of seven to 11 years. While the judges found that he was likely to be rehabilitated, they did not find that it would be "manifestly
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:58P
Justice is more often delayed as states' woes burden courts
"The justice system's funding has been decreasing in constant dollars for at least two decades," said David Boies, co-chairman of a commission formed by the American Bar Association to study court budget issues. "We are now at the point where funding
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:42P
SC tax code hits high court
COLUMBIA -- South Carolina's tax code goes on trial Tuesday when a Columbia attorney will ask the state's highest court to throw out the state's 78 sales tax exemptions. Matthew Bodman of Columbia,
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:31P
Crow Wing County pedophile case moved to January
A Wednesday court hearing for a man suspected of sexually abusing at least 10 boys since the 1960s on his rural Nisswa, Minn., property was continued to give prosecutors time to consider filing more charges. Thomas Richard Erickson, 69, is accused in
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:30P
Convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan seeks prison release
In a US District Court brief, Sirhan's lawyers also say that an expert analysis of recently uncovered evidence shows two guns were fired in the assassination and that Sirhan's revolver was not the gun that shot Kennedy. Attorneys William F. Pepper and
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:29P
The euthanasia campaigner
He was separated from his family for three months following his arrest before the court allowed him to return to Cape Town until the trial began. South Africa has no extradition agreement with New Zealand, and Davison believes character references
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:25P
Prosecutors set to review 'double jeopardy' cases
In this day and age, people shouldn't be able to walk free from court and subsequently boast with impunity about their guilt. If new evidence emerges which shows the original ruling was fundamentally flawed, it should be possible to have a second trial
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:21P
CPA Pleads Guilty in $670 Million Fraud Involving Costa Rica Insurer's Sale of
Jorge Luis Castillo , a certified public accountant from New Jersey , pleaded guilty before US District Judge John A. Gibney of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, which carries a
Updated: 11/26/2011 07:19P
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