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Woman braved spousal abuse because she feared death, Shafia trial told
Vorgetts, a US-based volunteer with Women for Afghan Women, a human rights organization, said she began taking phone calls from the Montreal woman in the spring of 2008, after a referral through Vorgetts' aunt. Vorgetts also is a native of Afghanistan.
Updated: 11/29/2011 08:01P
County Judge Won't Throw Out Suit vs. NY Gay Marriage Law
A Livingston County Supreme Court judge has declined to throw out a lawsuit challenging the Marriage Equality Act signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo in June. In a ruling dated November 18 but released on November 29, Acting Judge Robert
Updated: 11/29/2011 08:00P
Murray sentenced to four years for role in Michael Jackson's death
Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor was expected to sentence Murray later in the day after hearing from lawyers on both sides of the case. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a six-week trial that presented the most detailed account
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:59P
US Judge rejects settlement between Citigroup and Wall Street regulators
Federal court judge Jed Rakoff ordered a trial, saying the settlement was “neither reasonable, nor fair, nor adequate, nor in the public interest”. The SEC claimed Citigroup sold 1bn worth of mortgage assets and then bet that their value would fall.
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:59P
Trial underway for beating death of Missoula transient
In August, a jury found the co-defendant in the case, Raymond Big Beaver guilty of a lesser misdemeanor assault charge. In court Tuesday morning, a witness testified that right after the beating, Big Beaver and Gonzalez told him they killed Belmarez.
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:59P
Danville mother convicted in heat-related death of boy
The trial of two women accused of shopping on a hot June day while two young children and an elderly dementia patient sat in a hot car started Tuesday morning in Danville Circuit Court. One-year-old Dakhyran Markell Reeves died of hyperthermia
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:58P
Cote d'Ivoire's Gbagbo leaves for ICC trial
29 (Xinhua) -- Cote d'Ivoire's former president Laurent Gbagbo on Tuesday night left for the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for trial, the West African country's judiciary sources confirmed. The confirmation was made hours after
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:58P
Rakoff's SEC Rebuke
By all means let's settle the Citigroup case in court. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff's rejection Monday of a $285 million settlement between Citigroup and the Securities and Exchange Commission is playing in some circles as a great populist victory against
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:58P
NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA |Man convicted of murder as
However, his attorneys argued on appeal that Savoie's right to a public trial was violated when the trial judge closed the courtroom to hear arguments on a motion. The state Appeals Court agreed last month and ordered a new trial.
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:57P
Trial date set in assault case against Vincent Damphousse's estranged wife
Allana Henderson, the estranged wife of former NHL player Vincent Damphousse, leaves the court in Montreal, Wednesday, April 20, 2011. The estranged wife of former NHL star Vincent Damphousse will stand trial next year for allegedly assaulting and
Updated: 11/29/2011 07:54P
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