Recent Updates
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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...
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Lululemon killing suspect, Brittany Norwood, in court
Criminal Law 07/08/2011A court hearing is set for a woman charged with killing a coworker at an upscale yoga clothing shop in Bethesda. Brittany Norwood’s court hearing is set for 9 a.m. Friday in Montgomery County. Norwood is charged in the March murder of Jayna Murray, a...
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Defendant in 4 Calif. killings now wants lawyer
Criminal Law 07/07/2011The man charged with killing four Northern California women with matching first and last initials has asked for a court-appointed attorney to help him defend himself. Seventy-seven-year-old Joseph Naso is currently acting as his own attorney. But he ...
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In Strauss-Kahn case, DA weighs limited options
Criminal Law 07/06/2011At first, prosecutors said their sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was growing more formidable by the day. Six weeks later, they said his accuser's history of lying raised major red flags, but they weren't dropping the case, at least...
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Prosecutors seek to drop earlier Bulger charges
Criminal Law 06/30/2011Federal prosecutors moved Tuesday to dismiss a 1994 racketeering indictment against mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger to focus on a later indictment that charged the newly captured fugitive of participating in 19 murders.But U.S. District Judge Mark Wol...
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2 year sentence for convicted Hilton trespasser
Criminal Law 06/30/2011A man convicted of attempting to burglarize Paris Hilton's home has been sentenced to two years in state prison.City News Service reported that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Kellogg also recommended during Wednesday's hearing that Nathan L...
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Pa. man found guilty of killing 3 Pittsburgh cops
Criminal Law 06/26/2011A Pennsylvania man was found guilty Saturday in the 2009 killings of three Pittsburgh police officers who responded to his mother's 911 call about an escalating argument.The jury deliberated for just over three hours before returning the verdict agai...
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Navy subcontractor pleads guilty in bribe case
Criminal Law 06/20/2011A Navy subcontractor pleaded guilty Friday in Rhode Island for his part in what federal prosecutors say was a kickback scheme that cost the Navy millions of dollars.Russell Spencer's plea was part of an agreement with prosecutors in which he promised...
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NY top court rejects online defamation suit
Criminal Law 06/14/2011New York's top court has rejected a real estate broker's defamation claim against a rival business over anonymous comments posted on its website saying the broker mistreated agents, failed to pay bills and was racist and anti-Semitic. The Court of Ap...
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Woman faces prison in Calif.-to-Ohio pot scheme
Criminal Law 06/10/2011A California woman who initially claimed ignorance about the contents of multiple suitcases she was bringing to Ohio faces up to 10 years in prison Friday when she is sentenced in a $3 million marijuana shipping scheme.After her arrest in in June 201...