Recent Updates
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Okla. man pleads not guilty to gas pipeline bomb
Criminal Law 08/17/2011An Oklahoma man accused of attaching a homemade bomb to a natural gas pipeline has pleaded not guilty.Forty-year-old Daniel Herriman entered the plea Tuesday before Magistrate Judge Kimberly West in U.S. District Court in Muskogee.The FBI says Herrim...
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Ex-Harvard student due in court in 2009 shooting
Criminal Law 08/15/2011A former Harvard student accused of hiding the gun used in a fatal shooting inside a university dormitory is due in court. Brittany Smith is one of four people who were charged in connection with the shooting of 21-year-old Justin Cosby of Cambridge....
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Mom devastated after fugitive children's capture
Criminal Law 08/11/2011The mother of three siblings captured after an intense nationwide search says she is devastated by the arrest of her children.Barbara Bell of East Palatka, Fla., told The Associated Press on Thursday that "throughout all of this, I think everybody ju...
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Couple pleads guilty in Las Vegas surgery death
Criminal Law 08/08/2011The teenage daughter of a Las Vegas woman who died after an illegal buttocks enhancement surgery said Thursday there will be no justice for her mother's death after prosecutors worked out a plea deal with the unlicensed doctor and nurse who performed...
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DeMocker defense says former lawyer will keep mum
Criminal Law 08/01/2011Lawyers for a Prescott stockbroker facing a murder retrial say they won't allow his former defense attorney to give a deposition in the case. John Sears is one of two attorneys who quit Steven DeMocker's case in October, citing a conflict of interest...
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Trial won't feature unreleased Jackson footage
Criminal Law 07/26/2011Jurors in the Michael Jackson manslaughter case will not watch previously unseen footage from the singer's final rehearsals to determine the state of his health before his death, a judge ruled Monday. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor agreed with t...
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Court denies motion to stop Loughner medication
Criminal Law 07/25/2011A federal court Friday night denied an emergency motion by defense lawyers to keep prison officials in Missouri from forcibly medicating the Tucson shooting rampage suspect with a psychotropic drug. In a one-page ruling, judges from the 9th Circuit C...
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Paralegal accused of stealing from law firm
Criminal Law 07/20/2011Authorities say a South Florida paralegal stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her Fort Lauderdale law firm. Miami-Dade officials on Tuesday charged 53-year-old Brenda Wilcott-Kelly with more than 80 felonies, including grand theft and forging...
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DC killing suspect escapes by switching identities
Criminal Law 07/18/2011Authorities searched Saturday for a man charged with first-degree murder who allegedly swapped identities with another prisoner and walked out of a Washington courthouse.U.S. Marshals spokesman David Neumann said officials are looking for 24-year-old...
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Man in court for NY-to-LA flight stowaway charges
Criminal Law 07/18/2011A Nigerian American man is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Los Angeles on charges he breached airport security in New York and got a free ride on an LA-bound flight. Twenty-four-year-old Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi faces up to 15 years in prison if c...
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Florida man pleads guilty in Idaho abduction, rape
Criminal Law 07/13/2011A Florida man has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping an Idaho woman in 2003. Prosecutors say 27-year-old Douglas James Steinemer participated in the attack with his father, a long-haul trucker who has already been sentenced to life in prison. St...
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Ex-law firm office manager sentenced for theft
Criminal Law 07/11/2011The former office manager of a northern New Jersey law firm has been sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing more than $400,000 from her employers. The firm's owners say the thefts Beth Friedland committed between 2003 and January 2010 caused...