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Serb pleads guilty in NY student beating case
Criminal Law 09/27/2010A Serb basketball player has pleaded guilty to beating an American student into a coma. The plea was part of a plea bargain under which Miladin Kovacevic is expected to serve about two years in prison in his homeland.Under the agreement, Kovacevic, 2...
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2 Iowa women plead guilty to embezzling millions
Criminal Law 09/24/2010Two Iowa women pleaded guilty Thursday to federal felony charges that they embezzled nearly $6 million from West Des Moines insurer Aviva USA.The charges come nearly a year after Phyllis Stevens, 59, was arrested at a Las Vegas hotel. An Aviva employ...
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Ind. teen who killed brother breaks down in court
Criminal Law 09/17/2010An Indiana teenager who pleaded guilty to murder has broken down while watching video of himself telling police how he strangled his 10-year-old brother.Ohio Circuit Court Judge James D. Humphrey recessed court twice for a total of nearly an hour Thu...
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Man who tried to fake death pleads guilty to fraud
Criminal Law 09/16/2010An Indiana money manager who once led a high-flying lifestyle pleaded guilty to five securities fraud counts on Wednesday, nearly two years after he tried to fake his death in a Florida plane crash to escape the crush of financial and personal proble...
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Defendant pleads guilty in NJ in $880M fraud case
Criminal Law 09/15/2010A Florida man has pleaded guilty in New Jersey to running a multistate Ponzi scheme that prosecutors say left investors with about $80 million in losses.Nevin Shapiro admitted in a Newark federal courtroom Wednesday to using Florida-based Capitol Inv...
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Accused gunman in hospital standoff due in court
Criminal Law 09/08/2010A former Army soldier accused of taking workers hostage at a Georgia military hospital is scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court in Savannah.Federal prosecutors charged Robert Anthony Quinones on Tuesday with assault and kidnapping i...
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Flight attendant in passenger tiff due in N.Y. court
Criminal Law 09/07/2010A former JetBlue flight attendant accused of cursing out an airplane passenger and then sliding down an emergency exit chute is due in a New York City courtroom. Steven Slater is scheduled to appear today for a routine hearing on criminal-mischief ch...
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New Jersey man pleads guilty to trade secret theft
Criminal Law 09/02/2010A New Jersey man who was a chemist for a suburban Chicago-based paint company has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets.Federal prosecutors say 54-year-old David Yen Lee of Jersey City, N.J., pleaded guilty Wednesday. They say he admits to stealin...
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Ohio parents plead guilty to hog-tying young son
Criminal Law 08/31/2010The parents of a Cleveland boy have pleaded guilty to hog-tying and duct-taping him to a coffee table on a nightly basis for months.Thirty-seven-year-old Andreia Huffman and 32-year-old Jason Dunikowski of Cleveland pleaded guilty Monday to a 196-cou...
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NY trial starts for 4 accused of temple bomb plot
Criminal Law 08/25/2010Four men charged with trying to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down military planes were caught on videotape plotting and praying together before setting out to launch the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening statements at their trial....
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'Grim Sleeper' arraignment set for Monday
Criminal Law 08/23/2010Lonnie Franklin Jr., the suspect in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killings, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning in a Los Angeles, California, courtroom on 10 counts of murder.Franklin is accused of killing 10 women in the south Los Angeles area b...
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Lawyer says DOJ ends criminal probe of Tom DeLay
Criminal Law 08/17/2010A lawyer for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says the Justice Department has ended a probe of the Texas Republican and will not file any criminal charges.The six-year criminal investigation focused on DeLay's ties to disgraced former lobbyist ...