Recent Updates
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Veterans finding service record helps in court
Court Alerts 05/22/2010Courts are increasingly relying on military service records in deciding sentences for veterans accused of crimes.Since 2008, 31 so-called veterans courts have been established to exclusively handle the criminal cases of veterans.Veterans in those cou...
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Woman to be sentenced in Elizabeth Smart case
Court Alerts 05/21/2010State and federal judges on Friday are expected to order prison sentences for the woman who has pleaded guilty to kidnapping in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart.Wanda Eileen Barzee is set for back-to-back sentencing hearings in U.S. District Cou...
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Times Square car bomb suspect has day in court
Court Alerts 05/19/2010The man accused of plotting to kill Americans with a car bomb in Times Square appeared relaxed and obedient in his first appearance in a Manhattan courtroom, where he was told by a magistrate judge that he had the right to remain silent.Authorities s...
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Supreme Court rejects appeal of "must-carry" rule
Court Alerts 05/17/2010The Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge from cable television operators to the 18-year-old requirement that they carry local broadcast stations on their systems.The justices rejected an appeal Monday from Cablevision Systems Corp. The c...
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Oak Lawn woman charged with stealing $880K from law firm
Court Alerts 05/14/2010A bounced check for $40 tipped off a Chicago law firm to a trusted employee's scheme that, over nearly seven years, drained more than $880,000 from the firm's bank account, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday. Joan M. Sanchez, 52, 10445 Linder Ave...
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Ohio executes hitchhiker who shot 3 drivers in '83
Court Alerts 05/14/2010Ohio executed a hitchhiker Thursday who admitted to killing one motorist who gave him a ride and shooting two others during a three-week string of shootings that terrorized the Cincinnati area in 1983.Michael Beuke, 48, died by lethal injection at 10...
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Heat's Wade faces ex-partners in restaurant suit
Court Alerts 05/13/2010Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade will be in a different kind of court as he faces trial in a $25 million lawsuit filed by his former partners in a failed restaurant venture.Jury selection was set to begin Wednesday in the case over the defunct D. Wade's P...
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Elderly Conn. sister can keep full lottery prize
Court Alerts 05/13/2010A judge says an elderly Connecticut woman doesn't have to share her half of a $500,000 lottery windfall with the sister who sued her over it.Eighty-seven-year-old Rose Bakaysa and her 84-year-old sister, Theresa Sokaitis, have been fighting over the ...
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N.J. court reverses open public records ruling
Court Alerts 05/11/2010A New Jersey court has found that records of settlements reached by insurance companies on behalf of government entities should be open to the public.In 2008, lawyer Mark Cimino asked used the state's Open Public Records Act to request copies of lega...
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Ex-manager of band The Fray wins round in court
Court Alerts 05/11/2010A federal judge agreed Monday that a lawyer for Denver-based band The Fray might face liability in the band's ongoing court battle with a former manager.The band alleges its former manager, Gregg Latterman, failed to disclose that his company obtaine...
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Utah high court to hear death penalty appeal
Court Alerts 05/07/2010The Utah Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of a condemned inmate set to die by firing squad.Ronnie Lee Gardner is scheduled to be executed June 18.His attorneys filed an appeal seeking to stop the execution and asking for a review of Gard...
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Appeals court hears arguments in Carona case
Court Alerts 05/06/2010Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona has asked an appeals court to reverse his 2009 conviction for witness tampering. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday in Pasadena. The former sheriff was sentenced to 5 1/...