Man convicted of murder in 'Precious Doe' case

"KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A man who kicked his girlfriend's daughter in the head and dumped her body in the woods was convicted Wednesday, resolving a case that haunted the Kansas City, Missouri, area during the four years the 3-year-old was known only as "Precious Doe."...

Verdict reached in O.J. Simpson trial -Guilty of all 12 counts

"LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) A jury finds O.J. Simpson guilty of all 12 counts in his Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnapping trial.The jury has reached a verdict in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping trial in...

Marine Wrongful Death Suit Won

" A Camp Pendleton Helicopter crash that killed three marines, initiated a wrongful death suit to be filed by the families in 2004. The wrongful death suit was won when the jury came back with the verdict that the San Diego Gas and Electric company was negligent for not...

Palin Email Hacker Suspect Found

The infamous Palin email hacker has been traced through a proxy server trail to 20-year old University of Tennessee student David Kernell, son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell.  Using...

Witness Changed Her Story During Rosenberg Spy Case

Documents from the famous cold war court case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953 accusing them of spying for the Russians have at long last been released, and they show that much of the evidence against the...

Bomb Plot Seven Face Retrial

The seven men accused of plotting to blow up an airplane in England and whose sketchy (and likely non-lethal) chemistry sparked the War on Moisture, which prevents you and I from bringing hair gel onto commercial flights, have been convicted of making bombs and terrorist...

Former KKK Member's Conviction Vacated

James Ford Seale, the former KKK member who was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy last year in the 1964 murder of two black teens was granted an acquittal by the US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.The court said...

Liquid restrictions to remain at UK airports

Following a jury's decision yesterday that the government's case against the men accused of planning to use liquids on planes as explosives could not be substantiated, the UK government says it will still continue to forbid passengers to take liquids on...

Ellard conviction overturned in killing of Reena Virk, 4th trial granted

In what must feel like a nightmare without end for Reena Virk's famliy, convicted murderer Kelly Ellard has been granted another new trial.  Ellard has been found guilty in all three of her previous trials, by...

Ex-FBI agent faces trial for 1982 slaying

"MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of his Cadillac at Miami's airport. ...

Woman found guilty of microwaving baby

"DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney's claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible. ...

Ex-Marine accused of Iraqi prisoner deaths is acquitted

Here's some bad news for the leftists and anti-America crowd: a Marine accused of murder in combat was acquitted today. Cheers broke out in the courtroom as Jose Nazario learned that he was deemed not guilty."A...

Juror's detective work ends trial

A trial in the UK has fallen apart after a juror tried to do his own detective work into the case. Outside of the trial, the juror went on his own to visit the site and conduct other investigations."A manslaughter trial collapsed after a juror admitted undertaking his own...

Laypeople to decide death penalty in Japan

Starting next May, jury duty in Japan will become an even heavier responsibility, as the country's new "lay-judge" program will sometimes empower ordinary citizens to deliver death sentences.The ethics of the death penalty aside, I find it fascinating--and terrible,...

Hamdan gets 5 1/2 years on terror charge

I was very suprised by the sentence that was given to Hamdan in light of the way other terror suspects have been treated. Hoever, I cannot say that I disagree with the sentence, if he is indeed telling the truth then...

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