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Gadhafi's Hated Spy Chief Arrested Abroad
Spy chief Abdullah al-Senussi got nabbed at an airport in Mauritania, and in an apparent testament to his character, there are no fewer than three places hoping to have him extradited for trial. The International Criminal Court wants him for crimes
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:30P
Ex-inmate fights Texas over compensation law
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state's highest state court to review criminal cases, reversed Allen's murder convictions three years ago in two 1983 murders in the Dallas enclave of University Park. The court ruled that Allen's trial attorney
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:15P
Israeli judge: Demjanjuk was 'Ivan the Terrible'
Judge Dalia Dorner, who sat on the Jerusalem District Court panel that convicted John Demjanjuk of war crimes and crimes against humanity in 1988, a ruling that was later overturned, is still convinced the verdict was just. "I have no shadow of a doubt
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:12P
Daughter testified she was scared of shooting supsect
Criminal District Court Judge John Stevens was presiding over Granger's trial, which began Tuesday and had been scheduled to resume on Wednesday afternoon. Granger's brother, 44-year-old Ulysses Granger, told The Enterprise Wednesday afternoon that
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:11P
Ferozepur:Judicial court complex foundation stone laid by Justice Maan
S.Maan, District Judge Sessions Division, Ferozepur expressed his views, while addressing the audience on the occasion of laying of foundations stone, for the construction of Judicial Complex on 24 acre land at Maloke Road, Zira.
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:11P
Ex-inmate struggles to cash in on compensation law
Rodney Ellis, who pushed for the state's compensation law and other criminal justice reforms, said Allen's case seemed caught in a "no person's land" - the evidence was insufficient to convict him, yet it also appeared too weak to qualify him for
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:10P
Libya says Gaddafi spy chief arrested in Mauritania
Families of the victims immediately demanded he face justice in France. "For the time being, there is an ICC arrest warrant for him, and the court requests it to be implemented. This remains valid, unless the ICC judges decide otherwise," ICC spokesman
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:06P
George Huguely may seek retrial in Yeardley Love case
George Huguely and his lawyers appeared in Charlottesville Circuit Court on Friday on a separate motion filed on behalf of several media outlets seeking to have the trial's evidence made public. Judge Edward Hogshire gave media attorney Robert Yates
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:04P
George Huguely may seek retrial in Yeardley Love case
George Huguely and his lawyers appeared in Charlottesville Circuit Court on Friday on a separate motion filed on behalf of several media outlets seeking to have the trial's evidence made public. Judge Edward Hogshire gave media attorney Robert Yates
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:04P
Ex-inmate struggles to cash in on Texas law that pays for years of wrongful
DNA evidence has led to most of Texas' exonerations. But with DNA testing essentially standard in most cases and the number of DNA-based exonerations expected to dwindle, more former inmates like Allen — whose case has no DNA evidence — are likely to
Updated: 03/17/2012 02:02P