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Witness accused of fabricating her story at murder trial
Stephanie Bird denied in court Thursday a lawyer's accusation that she concocted details of a murder involving her ex-boyfriend, Michael Briscoe. Under cross-examination, Bird held to her previous day's testimony that Briscoe and Joseph Laboucan beat
Updated: 03/02/2012 04:56A
SHERIDAN RECALLS ALLEGED CHERRY FIGHT IN COURT
Sheridan was testifying in Los Angeles Superior Court as part of a trial over her wrongful termination lawsuit against Cherry and ABC executives. She told the court the writer struck her on the set in 2008 after she asked him to write her character a
Updated: 03/02/2012 04:35A
Aarushi murder case: SC refuses to shift trial to Delhi
By: PTI In a setback to dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar facing trial in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi, the Supreme Court today refused to shift the trial against them from a Ghaziabad court to Delhi. A bench of justices BS Chauhan
Updated: 03/02/2012 01:56A
Judge replaced in bigamy trial of West Texas sect leader
SAN ANGELO -- The West Texas judge who has presided over the investigation and trials of a polygamist sect has been replaced for this month's bigamy trial of a former lieutenant to sect leader Warren Jeffs. In a terse court order, the presiding judge
Updated: 03/01/2012 11:44P
'Drug dealer to the stars' loses appeal against conviction
John Francis Waterworth was sentenced to three years and six months in prison at the Auckland District Court in May last year after a jury trial on one count of conspiracy to supply MDMA. In a finding released by the Court of Appeal today,
Updated: 03/01/2012 11:43P
Aarushi case: Supreme Court to hear Talwars' plea on shifting of trial
PTI, Updated: March 02, 2012 09:57 IST New Delhi: The Supreme Court will today pass its order on dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar's plea for shifting of the trial against them in the case of the murder of their daughter Aarushi from Ghaziabad to
Updated: 03/01/2012 11:42P
Ex-Sullivan highway chief's appeal may take six months
Attorney Dan Smith argued Pope's case Wednesday morning in the Tennessee Criminal Court of Appeals' Knoxville division. He contends the trial court erred in denying Pope's request for judgment of acquittal on his charges. With respect to official
Updated: 03/01/2012 11:40P
Calif. dispensaries can't be banned, but must grow pot on site, court rules
By MAURA DOLAN - Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - California cities may not ban medical marijuana dispensaries, but the operations may sell only weed that is grown on site, an appeals court ruled in an Orange County case. The unanimous decision by a
Updated: 03/01/2012 11:33P
Jury sees crime scene photos in murder trial
Jurors in the capital murder trial of Ruben Garcia on Thursday saw hundreds of photographs of the gruesome scene where two people were stabbed to death in a Central Lubbock residence. By LOGAN G. CARVER Jurors in the capital murder trial of Ruben
Updated: 03/01/2012 11:32P
CBS 3 Springfield - WSHMSon won't evict 98-year-old mom from Conn. home
Peter Kantorowski ended the lawsuit against his mother, Mary, that caused an uproar a day before the case was going to trial in Bridgeport Superior Court, said his attorney, Nick D'Agosto. "This has never been about displacing Mary necessarily from
Updated: 03/01/2012 11:30P