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Texas death row inmate gets reprieve
Criminal Law 04/06/2011The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the first scheduled execution of a Texas death row inmate using a new drug cocktail on Tuesday, although the proposed lethal mix was not mentioned in the court's decision to reconsider the merits of the condemned man's ...
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Ex-Texas judge changes plea, admits to bribery
Criminal Law 04/01/2011A former South Texas judge who originally declared his innocence in a more than $250,000 bribery and extortion investigation hours later changed his plea and confessed to accepting payoffs.Ex-State District Judge Abel C. Limas was arrested Thursday a...
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NH police: Woman who posted ad kidnapped, raped
Criminal Law 03/31/2011The New York woman posted a Craigslist ad seeking housing, saying she was looking to make a "fresh start" in New England.What she found instead, police say, was a New Hampshire town official who held her captive in his home for three days and raped h...
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Man cleared of '72 slaying facing federal charges
Criminal Law 03/28/2011Federal authorities plan to file a sex-offender charge against a 78-year-old man who was recently acquitted of killing a blind woman in upstate New York in 1972.A state prosecutor revealed in court Monday that Willie James Kimble will be arraigned in...
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Yale killing suspect plans to plead guilty
Criminal Law 03/16/2011An animal research technician charged with killing a Yale University graduate student days before her wedding plans to plead guilty Thursday, his attorney said. Public defender Joseph Lopez said Raymond Clark III, who was charged with strangling 24-y...
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Lansing man, 21, pleads to killing adoptive mother
Criminal Law 03/10/2011A Lansing man has admitted to the 2008 strangulation of the 77-year-old woman who had raised him since he was 2. Anthony Duane Thomas pleaded guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge in the killing of Ruby Thomas. The 21-year-old said...
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Trial begins for RI art dealer accused of $6M con
Criminal Law 03/03/2011A former art dealer earlier convicted of tax fraud duped investors out of $6 million and used the money to buy cars, antique Japanese swords and valuable works of art, a prosecutor said during opening statements as the man's trial began in federal co...
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California nursery goes to court to grow pot
Criminal Law 02/16/2011A Southern California nursery has gone to court in a bid to grow medical marijuana. Route 66 Nursery, which has been denied an Upland business license because the city zoning ordinance doesn't allow medical marijuana dispensaries, filed a Superior Co...
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Lawyer sentenced for LA courthouse drug smuggling
Criminal Law 02/15/2011A Beverly Hills defense attorney has been sentenced to three months in jail for smuggling heroin into a downtown Los Angeles courthouse. Los Angeles County prosecutors say 48-year-old Michael Inman was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest to a ...
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SoCal mom pleads not guilty over daughter's death
Criminal Law 02/15/2011A Riverside County woman has pleaded not guilty to murder and drunken driving for a crash that killed her 9-year-old daughter. Karen Honeycutt entered the plea Monday to charges that include second-degree murder and gross vehicular manslaughter while...
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Ex-NFL quarterback Schlichter charged in $1M theft
Criminal Law 02/15/2011Former Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter, whose NFL career was derailed by a gambling addiction, was charged Monday with stealing more than $1 million from a 68-year-old woman in suburban Columbus. Schlichter has offered to cooperate with an ongo...
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Prairieville man pleads guilty to mail fraud
Criminal Law 02/11/2011A Prairieville man pleaded guilty in Baton Rouge federal court to a charge of mail fraud concerning his use of almost $200,000 worth of computer equipment.The Advocate reports that 30-year-old Dustin J. Landry admitted Wednesday that he increased his...