Recent Updates
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Guilty plea entered in Obama student loan case
Criminal Law 07/20/2010Another person accused of viewing President Barack Obama's student loan records at a U.S. Department of Education contractor in Iowa has pleaded guilty.Patrick Roan pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor. The Iowa City man is scheduled to be sente...
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No bail for Maine man detained in car bomb probe
Criminal Law 07/16/2010A Pakistani man detained on an immigration violation in Maine while authorities investigated the attempted Times Square car bombing will continue to be held in jail because an immigration judge revoked his bail.Mohammad Shafiq Rahman's family rounded...
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Colo. school shooting suspect pleads not guilty
Criminal Law 07/13/2010A man accused of shooting and wounding two eighth-graders outside their middle school pleaded not guilty Monday by reason of insanity.Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood, 32, entered his plea in Jefferson County District Court, and was ordered to undergo a m...
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Phoenix man pleads guilty in fatal hit-and-run
Criminal Law 07/07/2010A Phoenix man accused of trying to use the government's Cash for Clunkers program to ditch his BMW after a fatal hit-and-run crash last year has pleaded guilty to manslaughter.Maricopa County prosecutors say 24-year-old Timothy M. Kissida was driving...
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Teen convicted of murder seeks help from hit man
Criminal Law 07/05/2010Davontae Sanford was just 14 when he told police he killed four people in a drug den, drawing their bodies like stick figures to show where the victims died — on the floor, a couch, a chair.Sanford was sentenced to at least 38 years in prison for the...
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Ex-UFC fighter War Machine gets year in jail
Criminal Law 07/02/2010Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor War Machine has been sentenced to a year in jail for violating probation after he assaulted people at two San Diego bars.War Machine pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts of assault and to violating pr...
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Guilty verdict in NYC beating death of immigrant
Criminal Law 06/29/2010A man was convicted Monday of murder as a hate crime during his retrial on charges that he beat an Ecuadorean immigrant with an aluminum baseball bat after mistaking him and his brother for a gay couple.Jurors deliberated for about seven hours before...
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Calif man accused of extortion through hacking
Criminal Law 06/24/2010Federal agents have arrested a man accused of hacking into computers to obtain personal data to extort sexually explicit videos from women and teenage girls in exchange for keeping their information private.The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says...
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5 militia men must stay locked up awaiting trial
Criminal Law 06/23/2010Five members of a Midwest militia charged with conspiring to rebel against the government and use weapons of mass destruction will remain in jail while awaiting trial, an appeals court said Tuesday, reversing a decision by a federal judge.Each man is...
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Bishop lawyer says Boston case may help defense
Criminal Law 06/18/2010The lawyer for a woman charged with killing three university colleagues in Alabama says a new murder charge brought against her for the 1986 shooting death of her brother could be used in an insanity defense in the Alabama case.Roy Miller said Thursd...
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OJ jury makeup, judge conduct questioned in appeal
Criminal Law 06/14/2010The racial makeup of the jury and the conduct of the judge who oversaw O.J. Simpson's conviction have emerged as key issues in the former football star's appeal for the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn his conviction in a gunpoint Las Vegas hotel roo...
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Cops: Suspect at court tried to sell GPS to owner
Criminal Law 06/10/2010Police say a Connecticut man who appeared at a courthouse to answer a larceny charge broke into several cars in front of the building, took a GPS unit and inadvertently tried to sell it to its owner. Police say the arrest of 50-year-old Thomas Peno o...