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Key question in Penn State case: Who is Victim 2?...
All the conflicting information presents tough challenges for prosecutors — not just at the sex abuse trial beginning in mid-May, at which the defense does not plan to call the man, but also in the court of public opinion. “I'm not trying to make light
Updated: 03/25/2012 03:44P

What the fuss is about: Wetlands
Thank President Reagan for putting Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States. On Wednesday, the court issued the unanimous opinion Scalia wrote in the case of Sackett v. EPA. The clarity of the opinion, helpful to its understanding by
Updated: 03/25/2012 03:27P

Trial could lay bare 'decades of child sex abuse coverup' in the Catholic
whose priest-abuse lawsuit involving 18 accusers was thrown out by the state Supreme Court in 2005. Also on trial is the Rev James Brennan who, like Lynn, pleaded not guilty. Last week, a third man, defrocked priest Edward Avery, 69, pleaded guilty
Updated: 03/25/2012 03:19P

Trial to expose 'decades of child sex abuse coverup' in the Catholic
whose priest-abuse lawsuit involving 18 accusers was thrown out by the state Supreme Court in 2005. Also on trial is the Rev James Brennan who, like Lynn, pleaded not guilty. Last week, a third man, defrocked priest Edward Avery, 69, pleaded guilty
Updated: 03/25/2012 03:08P

Hearing to test Strauss-Kahn's claims of 'diplomatic immunity'
By News Wires (text) AP - After criminal sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn dissolved last year due to prosecutors' doubts about his accuser's reliability, she vowed to get her day in another court. The hotel maid's civil case
Updated: 03/25/2012 03:07P

20-year-old Duluth murder case may get new trial amid revelations that FBI
D. Christian Hassell, director of the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Va., wrote in his letter to the St. Louis County Attorney's Office: “After reviewing the testimony of the FBI's examiner, it is the opinion of the FBI Laboratory that the examiner
Updated: 03/25/2012 03:06P

Oakland man sentenced to 300 months for producing child porn
25, 2011 after a 13-day trial before US District Court Judge D. Lowell Jensen. Prosecutors charged that Sullivan had trained a 14-year-old girl to work for him as a child prostitute in March 2008. Sullivan took photographs and video of the girl,
Updated: 03/25/2012 03:01P

MCOCA cant be applied in Chand murder case,says HC
In a partial reprieve for alleged oil-mafia kingpin Mohammed Ali Abu Bakar Shaikh, a key accused in the Sayyad Chand murder case, the Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed and set aside a trial court order rejecting his application for discharge from
Updated: 03/25/2012 02:59P

Israel court rejects Palestinian hunger striker's appeal
The deteriorating health of Shalabi, a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for over a month, is focusing international attention on Israel's decades-old use of detention without trial. The writing on the poster reads: "My strike is a protest against
Updated: 03/25/2012 02:57P

Trial set for woman on charges she caused son's death in '11
District Court Judge Marvin L. Tyler set a tentative Aug. 6 jury trial date for the Pavillion mom charged in the death of her son after the woman pleaded not guilty to all charges. Candace Lea Wagner is charged with child abuse and manslaughter,
Updated: 03/25/2012 02:53P