Recent Updates
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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...
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Man shoots and kills court employee in Austria
Criminal Law 12/16/2009A man unhappy with a judge's ruling in his divorce case returned to the court house on Wednesday and shot and killed one of its employees, authorities said.The alleged killer — a 57-year-old Austrian male — was arrested after gunning down a 42-year-o...
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2 guilty of killing CA teen, hiding body in drum
Criminal Law 12/15/2009Two Riverside County men have been found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old girl, putting her body in a 55-gallon drum and leaving it in a field in Southern California.Two separate Riverside Superior Court juries on Monday convicted Jeffree Buettner ...
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Neo-Nazi in murder trial gets makeover for trial
Criminal Law 12/09/2009A Florida judge has ruled that the state must pay for a costmetologist to cover up neo-Nazi tattoos on a man on trial in a murder case.Judge Michael Andrews, acting on a request by the man's lawyer, ruled that the tattoos are potentially offensive an...
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Slaying suspect said hobby was 'killing people'
Criminal Law 11/20/2009On an Internet site, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante listed her hobbies as "killing people" and "cutting." It may have sounded like a teenage exaggeration, but authorities say she fulfilled her words.Even as new details emerge about the teenager charge...
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Guilty plea in fatal NY stabbing of immigrant
Criminal Law 11/06/2009A man who agreed to testify against his friends in a fatal gang attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant pleaded guilty Thursday to hate crime charges, telling a judge he knew from the start they wouldn't "get away with it.""Throw away the knife," Nicholas ...