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Inside the 9/11 hearing circus as case gets off to rocky start
The arraignment hearing had been delayed by the Obama administration's efforts to transfer the case to a federal court in New York City, close to the trade-center site. It scrapped that plan after New York officials demanded the trial be held elsewhere
Updated: 05/06/2012 01:16A
Lawyers lay out 'Lil Boosie' trial
Show caption Advocate staff photo by Travis SpradlingDefense attorneys Jason Williams, left, and Nicole Burdett walk into the 19th Judicial District Courthouse on Saturday for opening statements and testimony in the first-degree murder trial of Baton
Updated: 05/06/2012 01:14A
Cost of visiting judges adds up
Visiting judges were brought into Smith's 361st District court because of his absence over 22 days in 2011 and 15 days so far this year, including during four jury trials. The price tag for taxpayers was at least $19610 over that year and two-month
Updated: 05/06/2012 01:09A
Fake notes: HC upholds man's four-year jail term
Justice ML Mehta upheld the sentence of city resident Bhura, dismissing his plea against the trial court's verdict. "Keeping in view the nature of offence committed by the appellant, the sentence imposed on him is just and meets the ends of justice,"
Updated: 05/06/2012 12:40A
Ethiopian paper fined for coverage of Eskinder Nega trial
New York, May 4, 2012--An Ethiopian court has cited the editor of a leading independent newspaper for contempt after his paper published the verbatim courtroom statement made by the imprisoned journalist Eskinder Nega during his trial, according to
Updated: 05/06/2012 12:38A
Sentencings in Isabella County Trial Court
Brandon S. Anstett, 21, Lapeer, operating while visibly impaired, $1200 fine and costs, six months' probation, 93 days in jail, five days of community service. Joseph H. Bateman, 20, Flushing, possession of marijuana/controlled substance, $770 fine and
Updated: 05/06/2012 12:31A
Pre-trial coordinator on the job
"We are trying to divert criminal defendants who qualify from pre-trial incarceration, providing complete, accurate and non-adversarial information to the magistrate court and circuit courts, prosecutor and defense attorneys," Hall said.
Updated: 05/06/2012 12:18A
Pre-trial coordinator on the job
"We are trying to divert criminal defendants who qualify from pre-trial incarceration, providing complete, accurate and non-adversarial information to the magistrate court and circuit courts, prosecutor and defense attorneys," Hall said.
Updated: 05/06/2012 12:18A
Three years after auditor report, Dallas municipal courts still a mess
Of the cases filed last fiscal year that were set for trial, well over half, nearly 38000, were dismissed because police officers didn't show up or couldn't remember the facts of the case, The News' analysis found. Court revenues, which city auditors
Updated: 05/05/2012 11:47P
Guantanamo court hearing for accused 9/11 plotters becomes a 12-hour marathon
his alleged co-conspirators put on a show of defiance during a marathon war court arraignment Saturday, sitting mute rather than answering their US military judge's questions ahead of their trial on charges of planning the terror attacks of Sept.
Updated: 05/05/2012 11:44P
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