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Somaliland military court sentences 17 civilians to death
By msnbc.com staff A military court in Somalia's autonomous northern region of Somaliland has sentenced 17 civilians to death for attacking a military base, the BBC reports. According to the report, 30 armed members of a clan attacked soldiers in a
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:57P
Idaho set to execute second prisoner in 7months
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 7th District Judge has signed a death warrant for condemned inmate Richard Albert Leavitt, ordering that he be executed by lethal injection within the next 30 days. Barring any last-minute court intervention, Leavitt will likely
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:54P
Gilmer Man Gets 80 Year Sentence
A 115th District Court jury took only about 30 minutes to convict 44-year-old Kevin Leray Henderson of exposing himself to a 4-year-old girl while performing a lewd act, said Byrd. The incident occurred last Sept. 30 at a Gilmer apartment complex where
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:50P
Trial date set for Drew Peterson for wife's murder
Peterson's trial was set to stand trial in the summer of 2010. But prosecutors appealed a judge's decision to forbid them from presenting certain hearsay evidence. Last month, an appellate court ruled the evidence could be presented.
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:46P
John Edwards case goes to the jury
Edwards is charged in US District Court in Greensboro, NC, with six felony counts of accepting about $1 million in unreported campaign donations from two wealthy supporters at a time when election law limited individual donations to a candidate to
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:45P
State moves HC, says legal holes in Nooriya being allowed to travel to US, Dubai
The state government on Thursday moved the Bombay High Court against an order by the special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court that had permitted Colaba-resident Nooriya Haveliwala, accused in a case of drink driving in which two
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:44P
Court Won't Rehear Case Against Chicago Police
By JOSEPH CELENTINO CHICAGO (CN) - A three-judge panel for the 7th Circuit has voted not to rehear a case against Chicago police who released a white, 21-year-old mentally ill woman into a high-crime, black neighborhood where she was raped and badly
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:44P
Saints' Vilma Sues NFL's Goodell Over Bounty Statements
The case is Vilma v. Goodell, 12-01283, US District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans). --Editors: Andrew Dunn, Dex McLuskey To contact the reporters on this story: Don Jeffrey in New York at djeffrey1@bloomberg.net; Erik Matuszewski in
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:41P
Man spends 5 days in jail before cops wash hands of case
He was then produced before a trial court, which remanded him to judicial custody. On the next day, Bikramjeet Singh, SHO of Rajpura police station, came to the court and informed it that the case had already been transferred to Delhi and refused to
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:41P
Trial set in embezzlement case
WCBI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/L9XuMB) that 62-year-old Bernice Lile appeared Wednesday in Lowndes County Circuit Court. Prosecutors say Lile is accused of taking the money between January 2010 and August 2011 from Jack Gordman Insurance where she
Updated: 05/17/2012 05:41P
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