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Letters from Readers, March 18: Thank you, Mr. Hertzberg; Keep preference
Recently, our state Supreme Court conducted a court-media discussion involving all interested media — newspaper, radio and television — and members of District 2 judiciary. The subject was coordinating public access to our courtrooms to accomplish two
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:53P

Court remands bin Laden family
“The judge sent Abdulfattah along with her five children to judicial remand until March 26 after a preliminary hearing,” Muhammad Aamir, who is going to represent Abdulfattah in the case, told AFP. He said Abdulfattah's brother, Zakarya Ahmad Abd
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:51P

Nazi war criminal Demjanjuk dies at 91 in Germany
He denied the charges against him but otherwise did not speak at his trial. The court said in its verdict that guards played a key role at camps such as Sobibor, where at least 250000 Jews are thought to have been killed despite the presence of only 20
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:35P

Ex-Nazi camp guard Demjanjuk is dead
The ailing Demjanjuk was sentenced by a Munich court in May 2011 after a trial lasting 18 months. However, he was allowed to go free pending an appeal before a federal court, having already spent nearly two years in prison, on the grounds that he was
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:26P

Ex-Nazi camp guard Demjanjuk is dead
The ailing Demjanjuk was sentenced by a Munich court in May 2011 after a trial lasting 18 months. However, he was allowed to go free pending an appeal before a federal court, having already spent nearly two years in prison, on the grounds that he was
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:26P

John Demjanjuk, Kicked Out of US for Nazi Past, Dies at 91
In May 2011, after a trial lasting almost 18 months, the Munich Regional Court in Germany found Demjanjuk guilty of aiding the Nazis in the murder of at least 28000 Jews at the Sobibor death camp. Sentenced to five years in prison, he was released
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:25P

John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi death camp guard, dies
After his conviction in May, Demjanjuk was sentenced to five years in prison, but was appealing the case to Germany's high court. He was released pending the appeal, and died a free man in his own room in a nursing home in the southern Bavarian town of
Updated: 03/17/2012 06:21P

Huguely May Ask For A New Trial
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 06:13P

Golden Globes Trial: Documents Show Just How Divided HFPA & Dick Clark Prods Are
On Friday, five weeks after the two-week non-jury trial concluded, the two sides submitted two very different “decision trees” to the court to aid Judge A. Howard Matz in making his ruling. The defense actually submitted two versions of its tree: One,
Updated: 03/17/2012 05:53P

Unhappy With the Owners, Many Fans Root for a Mets Loss in Court
Even before their trial starts Monday, the owners of the Mets, Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, have been found guilty by one jury of their peers: Mets fans. The proceeding took place in the people's food court (technically, the bar and snack stands along
Updated: 03/17/2012 05:46P