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VIDEO, STORY: OWI trial: Hopper says county employees were out to get him
Randy Hopper on the stand: Randy Hopper testifies in his own defense at his drunk driving trial in Fond du Lac County court. March 22, 2012. Former state senator Randy Hopper sits in a Fond du Lac County Courtroom this morning as his trial on OWI
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:45P
NYS law requires two forms of bail for defendants: Court of Appeals
March 22 (Reuters) - Trial judges in New York are required by state law to set at least two forms of bail for criminal defendants, the state's top court ruled Thursday. In a unanimous decision, the Court of Appeals held that a trial judge erred when he
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:41P
Rutgers case: Dharun Ravi says he wasn't biased, wasn't reason for roommate's
Dharun Ravi, center, is hugged by his father, Ravi Pazhani, right, as they leave court around noon in New Brunswick, NJ, Friday, March 16, 2012. Ravi, a former Rutgers University student accused of... (Associated Press) Dharun Ravi, 20, was convicted
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:40P
Rutgers case: Dharun Ravi says he wasn't biased, wasn't reason for roommate's
Dharun Ravi, center, is hugged by his father, Ravi Pazhani, right, as they leave court around noon in New Brunswick, NJ, Friday, March 16, 2012. Ravi, a former Rutgers University student accused of... (Associated Press) Dharun Ravi, 20, was convicted
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:40P
Split justices add to rights on plea deals
He was joined by the court's liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. That is the case, the majority said, even if the defendant is unquestionably guilty or has received a fair trial after turning down a
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:38P
Three Mississippi Men Plead Guilty to Their Roles in the Racially Motivated
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department announced today that Deryl Paul Dedmon, 19, John Aaron Rice, 19, and Dylan Wade Butler, 20, all from Brandon, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today in US District Court in Jackson to federal hate crime charges in
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:38P
Jury begins deliberations in Orie corruption case
Jane Orie engaged in a pattern of corrupt activity that proves she illegally used her taxpayer-funded staff to do campaign work that benefited her and sister Joan Orie Melvin, a state Supreme Court Justice, a prosecutor said Thursday in closing
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:33P
Fox Rothschild LLP | Lenders Beware - Sheriff Sale Notices in New Jersey
On May 3, 2010, Plata filed a motion in the trial court seeking to set aside the sale, which she believed had taken place on March 25, 2010. Plata certified that when she called the sheriff's office on June 17, 2010, she was informed that the sale had
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:32P
Former Wisconsin Senator Randy Hopper says at drunken driving trial officer
Randy Hopper on the stand: Randy Hopper testifies in his own defense at his drunk driving trial in Fond du Lac County court. March 22, 2012. Randy Hopper, a former senator of Fond du Lac, cried in court Thursday morning when he claimed county employees
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:27P
Cat causes panic in magistrate's court
By Mtokozisi Dube (email the author) There was drama on Monday in a Francistown courtroom in Botswana when a cat bolted out of a tumbling ceiling and charged at the trial magistrate. The cat landed on the public gallery and charged in the direction of
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:24P
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