Recent Updates
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Man guilty of inciting racial hatred in cross burning
Court Alerts 11/05/2010A Nova Scotia man who burned a cross on the lawn of an inter-racial Nova Scotia couple earlier this year has been found guilty of inciting racial hatred. Justin Rehberg will be sentenced in December. The 20-year-old Rehberg had pleaded guilty to crim...
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Court hears arguments on violent video games
Court Alerts 11/03/2010The Supreme Court expressed sympathy for a California law that aims to keep children away from ultra-violent video games, but several justices said the law faces a high constitutional hurdle.The high court heard arguments Tuesday over a California ba...
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Ontario woman who faked cancer pleads guilty to fraud
Court Alerts 11/02/2010An Ontario woman has pleaded guilty to keeping thousands of dollars in donations after faking terminal cancer.Ashley Kirilow of Burlington was charged with six counts of fraud under $5,000 and one count of fraud over $5,000.In a soft voice, Ms. Kiril...
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Supreme Court strikes down NO cameras
Court Alerts 10/28/2010The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld a judge's order invalidating traffic tickets issued through New Orleans' red-light and speed-enforcement camera systemThe court's 6-0 vote on Wednesday could create a budget problem for the city, which collected...
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Advocate appeals secret Kan. case to Supreme Court
Court Alerts 10/27/2010An advocate for chronic pain patients who is under investigation for obstruction of justice has challenged grand jury subpoenas in a rare case that climbed secretly through the judicial system to the U.S. Supreme Court. Siobhan Reynolds, president of...
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Arms dealer in Pentagon scheme guilty in new case
Court Alerts 10/26/2010A Florida arms dealer convicted in a $300 million Pentagon scheme is pleading guilty to another federal weapons charge.A plea agreement filed in Orlando federal court shows that 24-year-old Efraim Diveroli of Miami Beach will plead guilty at a hearin...
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Doctor Charged in Jackson's Death Back in Court
Court Alerts 10/26/2010Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor scheduled the hearing to receive updates on attorneys' preparations for Murray's preliminary hearing, which is scheduled to begin in January. During that hearing, the judge will determine whether there ...
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Canadian at Gitmo pleads guilty to all charges
Court Alerts 10/25/2010A Canadian accused of killing an American soldier as a teenage al-Qaida militant pleaded guilty Monday as part of a deal that avoids a war crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders.Omar Khadr pleaded to five charges includin...
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Mom Not Guilty for Throwing Kids Off Bridge
Court Alerts 10/22/2010A mother who threw her two children from an overpass in Dallas then jumped off the 20-foot-high bridge has been found not guilty of attempted murder and injury to a child.A judge ruled Thursday that Khandi Busby is not guilty by reason of insanity an...
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3 plead not guilty to Calif. can recycling fraud
Court Alerts 10/21/2010Three people charged with bilking the state's recycling program out of $7 million by importing cans from Arizona pleaded not guilty Wednesday. Howard Leveson, 68, the owner of Perris Valley Recycling, and two of his employees entered their pleas to a...
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Lawyer: Texas arson case prosecutor shows bias
Court Alerts 10/15/2010An Innocence Project attorney is questioning the impartiality of the prosecutor leading a Texas science panel's probe of an arson investigation that led to the execution of a Texas man.Stephen Saloom of the Innocence Project said Friday at a panel me...
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Ex-NY prof pleads guilty to strangling wife in '09
Court Alerts 10/14/2010A former associate professor at Rochester Institute of Technology admitted Wednesday that he strangled his wife last year and took her body to a suburban Rochester park because it was her favorite place.Timothy Wells, 58, pleaded guilty to second-deg...