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Condemned Texas man says DNA tests could clear him
Criminal Law 03/24/2010Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner insists DNA testing could exonerate him in the New Year's Eve 1993 slayings of his girlfriend and her two adult sons.Skinner is scheduled to die Wednesday in Huntsville. On Tuesday, he visited with his French-born ...
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Court hearing 'Fatal Vision' appeal after 40 years
Criminal Law 03/23/2010A former Army doctor convicted in the 1970 slayings of his pregnant wife and two daughters is asking a Virginia-based federal appeals court for a new trial.A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond will hear arguments i...
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Woman sentenced after embezzling from law firm
Criminal Law 03/22/2010A woman was sentenced Monday after she pleaded guilty to stealing from the law firm she worked for.In January, 24-year-old Christina Coronado admitted she had stolen more than $30,000 from her former employer, Zimmerman Law Firm in Waco. She claimed ...
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Marine pleads not guilty to arranging rape online
Criminal Law 03/04/2010A California Marine accused of using Craigslist to arrange the rape of an ex-girlfriend in Wyoming has pleaded not guilty to five felonies. Jebidiah James Stipe of Twentynine Palms, Calif., entered his plea in Wyoming's Natrona County District Court ...
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Court orders new look at Fla. murder case
Criminal Law 03/01/2010The Supreme Court has thrown out a Florida court ruling favorable to a former male model sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his friend and an office worker.The justices on Monday ordered the Florida Supreme Court to take a new look at the case o...
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Valrico man arrested for damaging law firm's computers
Criminal Law 02/18/2010The FBI today arrested a Valrico man accused of damaging computers at a Tampa law office.Edwin Vega Jr., 41, initially ignored agents who went to his house around 9 a.m., according to FBI spokesman David Couvertier. Agents believed Vega was inside hi...
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Court papers: Alaska man acknowledges killing 2
Criminal Law 02/17/2010Court papers filed Tuesday indicate a 29-year-old Anchorage man has acknowledged that he killed his neighbor and another woman for whose murder he was acquitted.The plea agreement is between federal prosecutors and Joshua Alan Wade, who is charged wi...
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Man accused in attorney death in court
Criminal Law 02/16/2010The man accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend - defense attorney Margaret Allen - and killing a witness in the case will make his first court appearance at 2 p.m. today in Butler County Common Pleas Court.Calvin McKelton, 32, will be arraigned on a...
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Yale killing suspect plans to plead not guilty
Criminal Law 01/26/2010An animal research technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student is expected to plead not guilty. Twenty-four-year-old Raymond Clark III is scheduled to appear in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. Joe Lopez, Clark's attorney, said Clark ...
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Court sends shaken baby case back to 9th Circuit
Criminal Law 01/19/2010The Supreme Court has again reinstated the conviction of a California woman for shaking her 7-week-old grandson in a case that has become a tug-of-war with the federal appeals court in San Francisco. Shirley Ree Smith was convicted in December 1997 a...
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Mass. parents in OD case to be tried separately
Criminal Law 01/13/2010The Massachusetts parents accused of killing their 4-year-old daughter by overdosing her with prescription drugs will be tried separately.Assistant District Attorney Frank Middleton said in court Wednesday that prosecutors decided to hold separate tr...
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Man pleads not guilty to setting deadly Mass. fire
Criminal Law 01/05/2010A 25-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to setting a fire at a western Massachusetts home that killed two of his neighbors. It was one of nine fires set within hours of one another in the community of Northampton.Anthony P. Baye was ordered held wit...