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Tweets 'cost Allen Stanford fair trial'
Lawyers for convicted fraudster Allen Stanford say he was robbed of a fair trial because the press were allowed to send Twitter messages from court. By Richard Blackden US district judge David Hittner, who presided over Stanford's month-long trial in
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:07P
Tweets 'cost Allen Stanford fair trial'
Lawyers for convicted fraudster Allen Stanford say he was robbed of a fair trial because the press were allowed to send Twitter messages from court. By Richard Blackden US district judge David Hittner, who presided over Stanford's month-long trial in
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:07P
Top Broussard aide pleads guilty to federal misprision charge
Former Jefferson Parish Chief Administrative Officer Tim Whitmer today pleaded guilty to one count of misprision (concealment) of a felony in US District Court. Whitmer, who was charged in a January bill of information, has taken a plea deal with
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:03P
Top Broussard aide pleads guilty to federal misprision charge
Former Jefferson Parish Chief Administrative Officer Tim Whitmer today pleaded guilty to one count of misprision (concealment) of a felony in US District Court. Whitmer, who was charged in a January bill of information, has taken a plea deal with
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:03P
NEW: Detective: Murder witnesses uncooperative, fearful
Sarasota Police Detective John Todd testifies during the opening day of Shawn Tyson's murder trial in Sarasota County Court on Thursday. Tyson is accused of killing British tourists James Cooper and James Kouzaris in April 2011 in Sarasota's Newtown
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:00P
NEW: Detective: Murder witnesses uncooperative, fearful
Sarasota Police Detective John Todd testifies during the opening day of Shawn Tyson's murder trial in Sarasota County Court on Thursday. Tyson is accused of killing British tourists James Cooper and James Kouzaris in April 2011 in Sarasota's Newtown
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:00P
One way to skip work
Pletz, 23, pleaded guilty in Berrien County Trial Court to three felony counts of making a false bomb threat against Harbor Graphics in Benton Township. Pletz is free on bond pending sentencing May 7. She faces up to four years in prison.
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:53P
One way to skip work
Pletz, 23, pleaded guilty in Berrien County Trial Court to three felony counts of making a false bomb threat against Harbor Graphics in Benton Township. Pletz is free on bond pending sentencing May 7. She faces up to four years in prison.
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:53P
Teen pleads not guilty in store crash
A 17-year-old Ethete boy accused of stealing a car and plowing nearly 300 feet through Riverton's Walmart in January has pleaded not guilty to charges against him. Wearing a dark blue jail jumpsuit, Donovan James Shakespeare entered his pleas during
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:46P
Do 14-year-old murderers deserve life in prison without parole?
Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said "the American people" have already decided that the sentence is just, given that 39 states and the federal government allow it. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal, scoffed at the idea that the punishment
Updated: 03/22/2012 05:45P
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