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Norway killer on trial: 'I would have done it again'
Breivik's testimony will not be broadcast on television due to concerns that the gunman could use the trial as propaganda for his violent cause. The day began in controversy after the court dismissed a lay judge after he posted a comment on aFacebook
Updated: 04/17/2012 07:04A
Norway killer Breivik defends massacre: 'I would have done it again'
A lay judge in the trial of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has been dismissed for commenting online last year that the anti-Muslim extremist deserves the death penalty for killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre.
Updated: 04/17/2012 07:03A
State high court rules for judge, not Richland County Children Services
Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor wrote the judgment entry. "The allegations against Judge Spon are without merit," she wrote. "Affiants automatically assume that Judge Spon's critical comments about (Children Services) compel his disqualification.
Updated: 04/17/2012 07:03A
Norway Lay Judge Dismissed Over Call to Execute Breivik
Lawyers on all sides had requested that Indreboe be taken off the trial and he was replaced by back-up lay judge Elisabeth Wisloeff. The death penalty is not practiced in Norway and most other European countries. On Tuesday, Breivik addressed the court
Updated: 04/17/2012 07:01A
NYCLU sues for access to legal opinions in NYPD misconduct trials
NEW YORK – The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit in state court seeking access to the judicial opinions in NYPD trials of police misconduct allegations already substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB),
Updated: 04/17/2012 07:01A
Anders Breivik trial: Norway's mass killer's tears not 'out of pity'
“Nobody believes that he cried out of pity for the victims,” said Mette Yvonne Larsen, a lawyer representing survivors and victim's families in the court proceedings. Breivik showed no signs of remorse on the first day of a trial that is expected to
Updated: 04/17/2012 06:57A
Breivik says 'goodness' motivated attack
Mr Breivik's testimony was delayed after one of the three lay judges in the case was dismissed amid allegations over his impartiality. The presiding judge, Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen, fired Thomas Indreb after informing the court that he wrote in an
Updated: 04/17/2012 06:57A
Dominguez found guilty, 30 years of imprisonment
A court in Bulacan announced a punishment of 30 years of imprisonment on Tuesday for the alleged leader of a carjack gang Raymond Dominguez. The punishment was announced by the Malolos Regional Trial Court (RTC) which declared him guilty of snatching a
Updated: 04/17/2012 06:56A
Dominguez found guilty, 30 years of imprisonment
A court in Bulacan announced a punishment of 30 years of imprisonment on Tuesday for the alleged leader of a carjack gang Raymond Dominguez. The punishment was announced by the Malolos Regional Trial Court (RTC) which declared him guilty of snatching a
Updated: 04/17/2012 06:56A
Shouting interrupts Egypt soccer stampede trial
A trial of 61 men accused of involvement in an Egyptian soccer stampede that left 74 dead was suspended briefly on Tuesday after dozens of defendants began shouting as the prosecutor read out charges. Judge Abdel Magid Mahmoud walked out as the
Updated: 04/17/2012 06:49A
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