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Big DeKalb schools civil and criminal cases get trial dates
By Ty Tagami Court cases that have loomed over the DeKalb County School District and its taxpayer-funded school construction program are finally heading to trial. The corruption case against former Superintendent Crawford Lewis has been set for trial
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:23P
Sentencing hearing statements from Tori Stafford case
Superior Court Judge Thomas Heeney, who presided over the case (statement delivered in court): Mr. Rafferty was not convicted based on his character, he was convicted based on his conduct. Character evidence is presumptively inadmissible under our law
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:23P
Activision Seeks Delay of $1 Billion 'Modern Warfare' Trial
Beth Wilkinson, the lawyer Activision hired May 10, asked California Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle at a hearing today in Los Angeles to postpone the May 29 trial date for 30 days so she can get up to speed. Berle didn't rule on the request at the
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:22P
Activision Seeks Delay of $1 Billion 'Modern Warfare' Trial
Beth Wilkinson, the lawyer Activision hired May 10, asked California Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle at a hearing today in Los Angeles to postpone the May 29 trial date for 30 days so she can get up to speed. Berle didn't rule on the request at the
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:22P
Man in coma after committing self-immolation in Oslo
OSLO, May 15 (Xinhua) -- An unidentified man who set himself on fire outside the Oslo District Court building on Tuesday fell into a coma later in the day. The man, aged 49, was a Norwegian citizen of foreign origin. Despite serious burns on the chest
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:19P
Man in coma after committing self-immolation in Oslo
OSLO, May 15 (Xinhua) -- An unidentified man who set himself on fire outside the Oslo District Court building on Tuesday fell into a coma later in the day. The man, aged 49, was a Norwegian citizen of foreign origin. Despite serious burns on the chest
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:19P
New effort to free OJ Simpson
A 94-page document filed today (NZ time) in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas faults trial strategy and performance of attorneys Yale Galanter of Miami and Gabriel Grasso of Las Vegas, but maintains Simpson's same basic defence - that he wanted
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:18P
Judge's wife stabbed dead in Iloilo town
ILOILO CITY — The wife of a Capiz Regional Trial Court judge and her granddaughter were found stabbed dead at her residence in Barotac Nuevo town in Iloilo Monday morning. Sonia Amular, 65, wife of Judge Daniel Amular of the Mambusao, Capiz RTC,
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:18P
Taylor ready to address court
Taylor, convicted last month of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone's conflict, is the first head of state to be found guilty by an international tribunal since the Nazi trials at Nuremberg. His trial caught the public's
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:18P
New effort filed to free OJ
A 94-page document filed Tuesday in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas alleges Simpson was so badly represented by his trial and prior appellate lawyers that he deserves a new trial. Almost all of the 22 grounds attorney Patricia Palm cites fault
Updated: 05/15/2012 07:15P