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Mattapan Residents Stunned By Murder Trial Verdicts
The Boston courtroom erupted following Thursday's verdicts in the trial of two men accused of killing four people in Mattapan. Here, a court officer removes a spectator. (AP) Winston Jarvis' reaction was typical among residents of the Mattapan
Updated: 03/22/2012 07:01P
Florida Senate passes revised redistricting maps
Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, and Maria Sachs, D-Boca Raton, in a district expected to lean Democratic. A functional analysis ordered by the Supreme Court shows Democrat Alex Sink would have carried 15 districts in the 2010 gubernatorial race
Updated: 03/22/2012 07:00P
Closing arguments Friday in accused teen cop-killer case
The defense took less than an hour to present its case today. In the beginning, some court-watchers were saying that the trial would be slow-going; they were proven wrong. Jury selection got off to a slow start Monday. The high level of publicity
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:59P
Right defense for defendants in plea deals
About nine in 10 criminal cases nationally end in plea deals rather than trials. It's settled law that anyone charged with a crime has a constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel when they stand trial. Pleas should be no different.
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:58P
Football Stadium Guard Can't Sue Over Tackle
William D. Austin was working on the sidelines of a Bills home game at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, NY, when two players collided with him. The trial court dismissed Austin's ensuing complaint at summary judgment, and the Rochester-based
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:56P
High Court rejects Bhandarkar's petition
Mumbai In a major setback for film director Madhur Bhandarkar, the Bombay High Court on Thursday has rejected an application in which he sought the quashing of an FIR in a case of the alleged rape of an aspiring actress. In July 2004, actor Preeti Jain
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:53P
Comelec asks Pasay court to deny Bedol's request to use gadgets
MANILA — Prosecutors on Thursday asked the Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) to deny the request of former election supervisor Lintan Bedol who is facing electoral sabotage charges in connection with alleged irregularities in the 2007 senatorial
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:52P
SHOT BRITONS 'PLEADED TO GO HOME'
The men, who were holidaying with Mr Cooper's family, had been out after having dinner in central Sarasota, but drunkenly walked into the rundown public housing project known as The Courts. They were found shirtless and with their trousers round their
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:39P
Hair matched accused's DNA
By Neil Bowen, Sarnia Observer DNA from a hair collected from the Velma Thomson murder scene was matched by a private company to the DNA of the man charged with the 1983 murder, jurors in the Sarnia Superior Court trial heard Thursday.
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:34P
Accusations of Olivia Hope case cover up
Simon Bell is on trial at Wellington District Court for criminally harassing a woman he believes to be Olivia Hope. He took photos of the woman and sent these to police and local MPs. He also wrote to Ms Hope's family saying she was alive and handed
Updated: 03/22/2012 06:23P
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