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Prosecution Concludes Case in Inwood Cop Rape Trial
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The prosecution has rested its case in the trial of an off-duty police officer charged with a brutal sexual attack against a school teacher in Inwood. The 25-year-old victim gave tearful testimony to jurors last week about the
Updated: 03/20/2012 09:15P

Prosecution Concludes Case in Inwood Cop Rape Trial
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The prosecution has rested its case in the trial of an off-duty police officer charged with a brutal sexual attack against a school teacher in Inwood. The 25-year-old victim gave tearful testimony to jurors last week about the
Updated: 03/20/2012 09:15P

N1.3bn scam: Lulu, Ogunjobi, Amanze, Ojo-Oba want judge to hands-off case
They have gone before the appellate court to challenge the refusal of the trial judge to quash all the charges against them for want of jurisdiction and lack of evidence. Justice Okorowo had in a ruling he delivered on February 9, okayed all the
Updated: 03/20/2012 09:10P

N1.3bn scam: Lulu, Ogunjobi, Amanze, Ojo-Oba want judge to hands-off case
They have gone before the appellate court to challenge the refusal of the trial judge to quash all the charges against them for want of jurisdiction and lack of evidence. Justice Okorowo had in a ruling he delivered on February 9, okayed all the
Updated: 03/20/2012 09:10P

Pinehurst trial: Flurry of deposits raised suspicions of check kiting
Wintz, 72, and two former executives at St. Paul's now-defunct Pinehurst Bank - John Markert, 58, and Greg Pederson, 44 - are on trial together before US District Court Judge Ann Montgomery, accused of putting together a scheme involving straw
Updated: 03/20/2012 09:00P

EC council members drop lawsuit against city
By Teresa Auch Schultz tauch@post-trib.com March 20, 2012 7:48PM Two East Chicago City Council members are dismissing their federal lawsuit against the city, according to a motion filed Tuesday in US District Court in Hammond.
Updated: 03/20/2012 08:57P

Mayor flares up after bank offers to help pay Rallos heirs
Lawyer Jobert Abiba of PPSB spoke during yesterday's court hearing in Branch 9 of the Cebu Regional Trial Court. Mayor Rama, who insists the city government should not pay the Rallos heirs in the nearly 50-year-old lot expropriation case,
Updated: 03/20/2012 08:55P

CBI yet to tie loose ends in Bhanwari case
They have all requested the court not to read their statement during trial. Besides, the CBI in its chargesheet had projected Malkhan Singh's sister Indra Bishnoi as the key suspect in the case, the first person to hatch the conspiracy behind Maderna's
Updated: 03/20/2012 08:53P

Govt won't seek death for those given life terms
Ahmedabad The state government has challenged before the Gujarat High Court the acquittal of 31 accused in the 2002 Sardarpura massacre case but has not sought death term for another 31 accused who were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a
Updated: 03/20/2012 08:52P

Colo. death row inmate gets mental health hearing
Attorneys for Nathan Dunlap told a three-judge panel of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals that Dunlap is mentally ill and that his trial lawyers failed to adequately represent him. Paul Koehler, of the state attorney general's office,
Updated: 03/20/2012 08:50P