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Telford rape case five guilty
At Birmingham Crown Court yesterday Judge Melbourne Inman QC adjourned sentence following the month-long trial. Shamraz Rashid, 20, Amar Hussain, 21 and Amer Islam Choudhrey, 20, were found guilty of abducting a child and rape charges.
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:25A
Text messages and Facebook are new star witnesses at criminal trials
They worried about wiretapped phones and they knew rooms could be bugged, said Louis B. Schlesinger, professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. “They hardly said anything. Those guys were sophisticated
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:19A
US judge eyes bid by John Edwards to add defense lawyers who represented his
Duncan and Van Laningham never represented Hunter in advance of a 2009 deal with prosecutors or in the Edwards criminal case, the former presidential candidate's defense team wrote in a court filing Wednesday. “Mr. Edwards and his defense team have
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:15A
Suzanne Pilley murder trial: David Gilroy found guilty
A jury at the High Court in Edinburgh took almost two days to reach their verdict on David Gilroy, 49. His former lover Ms Pilley, 38, disappeared in May 2010 and her body has never been found. Gilroy had denied killing Ms Pilley in Thistle Street or
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:13A
US soldier accused in Wikileaks case due in court
A US Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks could soon learn when his trial will start. Pfc. Bradley Manning was scheduled to appear in a military courtroom at Fort Meade, near Baltimore,
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:11A
US soldier accused in Wikileaks case due in court
A US Army private accused of leaking classified material to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks could soon learn when his trial will start. Pfc. Bradley Manning was scheduled to appear in a military courtroom at Fort Meade, near Baltimore,
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:11A
Smartphone texts trip up criminal defendants
They worried about wiretapped phones and they knew rooms could be bugged, said Louis B. Schlesinger, professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. “They hardly said anything. Those guys were sophisticated
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:05A
Ex-MLA's expense fraud case back in court today
Former Nova Scotia MLA Russell MacKinnon was in Halifax provincial court in January to answer to charges from the MLA expense scandal. (THE CHRONICLE HERALD / File) The case of a former Nova Scotia Liberal politician charged in the province's spending
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:04A
Ex-MLA's expense fraud case back in court today
Former Nova Scotia MLA Russell MacKinnon was in Halifax provincial court in January to answer to charges from the MLA expense scandal. (THE CHRONICLE HERALD / File) The case of a former Nova Scotia Liberal politician charged in the province's spending
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:04A
Sentencing in notorious rape case today
Alfredo Lopez Cruz is scheduled to be sentenced at 2:30 pm before Butler County Common Pleas Court Judge Keith Spaeth, court records show. He faces a mandatory life sentence with parole eligibility after serving 10 years in prison on each of the four
Updated: 03/15/2012 07:00A
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