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State Supreme Court Rules New Trials Not Necessary In Knoxville Murder Case
The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a trial judge's misconduct outside the courtroom does not necessarily require a new trial unless the misconduct is shown to have affected the trial proceedings The ruling came after the state requested
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:31P

High Court Ruling Could Mean Retrials In White-Collar Cases
By Amanda Bransford Law360, New York (May 24, 2012, 9:20 PM ET) -- The United States Supreme Court on Thursday held that a criminal defendant can be retried even when a jury has rejected the most serious charges against him in a case attorneys say has
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:21P

US soldier convicted of bomb plot
A Muslim soldier has been convicted over a failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of US troops, in a religious mission to get "justice" for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Jurors in US District Court in Waco deliberated little more than an
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:21P

No Decision On Whether Video Images Will Be Released in APEC Shooting Case
After about an hour of hearing oral arguments, Circuit Court Judge Karen Ahn has taken the matter under advisement and said she'll rule by Tuesday. Deedy, who works for the US State Department, was in Honolulu for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:20P

Alleged N11bn scam: Case against Akala suffers setback
The case was earlier stalled when the counsel to the accused persons argued that the prosecution counsel was wrong to have asked another lawyer to represent him. At the last sitting, EFCC counsel was represented in court by Otunba Olayinka Bolanle,
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:16P

MURDER TRIAL: No verdict yet
“It's been a long day, with a lot for you to chew on,” Superior Court Justice John Desotti said as he sent the jurors away. Short was charged with the first-degree murder of his wife Barbara Short in October 2008. Short called 911 after he found his
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:08P

Finance company director admits guilt
A director of failed Auckland finance company Belgrave Finance has pleaded guilty to 23 charges connected to the collapse of the company. Belgrave was placed in receivership in 2008 owing an estimated 1000 investors $22 million.
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:06P

Belgrave Finance director faces jail
In the Auckland District Court today Buckley admitted 19 charges of theft by a person in a special relationship and four Crimes Act charges of false statement by a promoter. The offences carry penalties of up to seven and ten years in jail respectively
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:03P

IRIB journalist's trial biased: Lawyer
Anar Bayramli's attorney, Anar Ghasemlu, also said that the presiding judge had refused to allow news coverage of the second court session and disrupted questions against the case. According to local sources, the contradictory testimonies of a false
Updated: 05/24/2012 09:01P

Court OKs retrial in case where jury rejected some charges
In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled Thursday prosecutors may try again to convict a defendant of murder even after jurors in his first trial vote to acquit him of murder -- but split on whether to convict him of a lesser charge of manslaughter.
Updated: 05/24/2012 08:54P