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Virginia Tech civil trial day 7: Deliberations begin Wednesday
Jurors will receive instructions first, then hear closing arguments, and then begin deliberations. The jury instruction process could take 30 to 45 minutes, a sign of the complexity of the case, the judge said in court. The trial will resume Wednesday
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:31P
Preliminary hearing to resume Friday for family accused of keeping starving
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne was to present a video recorded interview with the girl in lieu of her live testimony. But Circuit Judge Amy Smith, after ruling the video was admissible, said it was not necessary to show it again in court
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:30P
Update: Father of drowned boys files $940000 lawsuit against ex-wife
Allyson McConnell is currently on trial for second-degree murder for drowning the boys, Connor, 2, and Jaden, 10 months. In a statement of claim filed in the Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench on Jan. 27, Curtis McConnell says the drownings were “flagrant
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:30P
Update: Father of drowned boys files $940000 lawsuit against ex-wife
Allyson McConnell is currently on trial for second-degree murder for drowning the boys, Connor, 2, and Jaden, 10 months. In a statement of claim filed in the Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench on Jan. 27, Curtis McConnell says the drownings were “flagrant
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:30P
Virginia Tech civil trial day 7: Tech lawyers finish their defense
Jurors will receive instructions first, then hear closing arguments, and then begin deliberations. The jury instruction process could take 30 to 45 minutes, a sign of the complexity of the case, the judge said in court. The trial will resume Wednesday
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:29P
Hague war crimes court to issue first ever verdict
By Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Hague international war crimes court hands down its first verdict, on a Congolese warlord, on Wednesday after almost a decade of work limited largely to Africa while major cases in the Middle East and Asia
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:29P
Brazil unveils first court case for dictatorship crimes
"The victims were never located, the crime of kidnapping is not over. The 1979 amnesty law does not apply in this case because the crime is still in effect," said Sao Paulo prosecutor Sergio Gardenghi Suiama. Rousseff also lifted indefinite secrecy for
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:26P
FACTBOX-International Criminal Court cases
March 14 (Reuters) - The Hague international war crimes court hands down its first verdict, on Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga, on Wednesday after almost a decade of work limited largely to Africa. Here are some details about the major cases being
Updated: 03/13/2012 07:25P
Toddler killed by blow to head, murder trial told
A man charged with murdering his partner's toddler was alone with the child when he sustained blunt-force trauma to his head, a court has been told. It is alleged Brock Powell, 23, murdered two-year-old Brendan Junior Michael Williams at Melrose Park
Updated: 03/13/2012 06:23P
Copyright-trolling well runs dry for Righthaven
Judge Roger Hunt of the United States District Court of Nevada wrote that bloggers and message-board posters (and hosters) do not infringe copyright by excerpting a few sentences from news stories. That such a ruling was ever necessary is a testament
Updated: 03/13/2012 06:20P
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