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Inverness cold case: Wife accused of plotting husband's 1979 slaying
Just before 2 p.m. on April 30, 1979, the doorbell sounded at a sprawling Inverness ranch home. A 5-year-old girl opened the door to find two men with nylon stockings pulled over their faces. The men tied up the girl, two of her siblings and the...
Tags: Adultery, Heart Attack, Prosecution, Lawyers, Portage Park
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Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law
Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Clarence Darrow, George W. Bush, Human Rights, Civil Rights
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The case for citizen jurors
A bill in the California Legislature would open jury duty to noncitizen legal residents, a risky experiment in fundamental U.S. law. The Assembly last week passed a bill that immediately drew nationwide attention — for all the wrong reasons. There...
Tags: Trials, Donald P. Wagner, Naturalization, Values, Prosecution
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Watching and waiting for verdict in Jodi Arias murder case
PHOENIX -- It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the night to get into the show. One seat even sold for $200. A cable network has set up a stage...
Tags: Action (Movie Genre), Sexual Assault, Trials, Satellite and Cable Service, Television
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Hagerstown man gets prison time in fatal motorcycle crash
matthewu@herald-mail.comA Hagerstown man was sentenced Thursday in Berkeley County Circuit Court to at least one year in prison after he pleaded guilty to fleeing the scene of a fatal motorcycle crash in April 2011. Steven Edward Thompson, 47, was fined $500 by 23rd Judicial...Tags: Accidental Death, Trials, Motorvehicle Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, Prosecution
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BGF jail corruption alleged months before indictment
Months before a federal indictment detailed allegations of corruption at the Baltimore City Detention Center, the smuggling and sexual improprieties at the core of that case had already been outlined in an inmate's lawsuit. Calvin Hemphill, in a...
Tags: Trials, Prosecution, Laws, Sex Crimes, Prisons
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Bethlehem teen, mistakenly released from prison, returns and pleads guilty
Partway through his trial, a Bethlehem teen who helped rob two Lehigh University students decided Wednesday to plead guilty — a choice he made after a mix-up at Northampton County Prison allowed him one last breath of freedom. The now 18-year-old...Tags: Trials, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania), Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Prosecution, Theft
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D.C. officer with Howard ties arrested in money-laundering case
A Washington, D.C., police officer was charged Tuesday with money laundering in connection with an alleged drug-trafficking scheme in the Pittsburgh and Baltimore areas. Federal authorities say more than $2 million in proceeds from cocaine was hidden....Tags: Rentals, Howard County, Washington, DC, Prosecution, Pikesville
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Jury will hear confession tape in Baltimore murder case
A Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled that a jury will be able to hear the taped confession of a teenage defendant in a murder case, rejecting his lawyers' claim that the police had coerced the statement from him. Markell Shelton Jones and his mother,...
Tags: Trials, Linthicum, Prosecution, Shootings, Justice System
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Police seize 310 cartons of unstamped cigarettes
matthewu@herald-mail.comPolice seized 310 cartons of cigarettes from a vehicle that was stopped at a Martinsburg-area Sheetz on Wednesday, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Oda Qarqat, 46, of Bogota, N.J., was arraigned Thursday on charges of no...Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Prisons, Tobacco Products, Crime, Law and Justice
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Federal lawsuit alleges kickbacks at Northrop real estate firm
A Howard County couple is suing one of the largest residential real estate brokerages in the state and a Columbia title company for more than $11 million, alleging that the firms had financial ties that violated federal law. The case is a proposed class...
Tags: Trials, Labor Legislation, Howard County, Prosecution, Services and Shopping
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2002 clip: EX-CORRECTIONS DEPUTY FIGHTS FOR REINSTATEMENT
This story ran in the Sun Sentinel on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2002: EX-CORRECTIONS DEPUTY FIGHTS FOR REINSTATEMENT By Jeff Shields A federal drug indictment transformed Raymond Hicks from a prison guard into a prison inmate in June 2000 and cost him his...Tags: Broward County Sheriff's Office, Kathleen Rice, Trials, Prosecution, Prisons
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