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Man faces charges for allegedly shooting near UCLA
Criminal Law 09/03/2008A man has been charged with two felonies after police found him near the University of California at Los Angeles campus with five loaded semiautomatic pistols and thousands of rounds of ammunition.Gene Bush, 52, was charged Tuesday with shooting at a...
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NY Landlord arrested for hidden cameras
Criminal Law 09/02/2008Two women who had just rented an apartment in Franklin Square Sunday discovered digital spy cameras hidden in smoke alarms in their bedrooms, police said. The landlord, Michael Muratore, 44, who lives on the first floor of the 849 Second Ave. home, w...
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Public defender to take ex-prof's appeal in scam
Criminal Law 08/28/2008The federal public defender for South Carolina will handle the court appeal of Al Parish, the former college professor convicted of bilking hundreds of investors out of $66 million.Parish, an economist who once taught at Charleston Southern, filed a ...
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LA hospital CEO pleads not guilty to billing fraud
Criminal Law 08/19/2008A Los Angeles hospital CEO has pleaded not guilty to recruiting homeless people as phony patients and billing government programs for unnecessary health services.City of Angels CEO Dr. Rudra (ROO'-druh) Sabaratnam (sab-ah-RAT'-nahm) entered the plea ...
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Retrial begins in Ohio microwave baby-death case
Criminal Law 08/11/2008Jury selection began Monday for the retrial of a woman accused of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven.China Arnold, 28, is charged with aggravated murder in the 2005 death of her daughter, Paris Talley, and could face th...
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NY man arrested in baby food poison video threats
Criminal Law 08/01/2008A man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly claimed in hoax Internet videos that he had poisoned millions of bottles of baby food, some with cyanide or rat poison, because he wanted to kill black and Hispanic children.Gerber Products Co. and the F...
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Sharpton faces disorderly conduct charge at trial
Criminal Law 07/29/2008The Rev. Al Sharpton rejected a plea offer Monday and will go to trial in September on a disorderly conduct charge related to demonstrations over the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day.Sharpton declined to plead guilty in exchange fo...
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Alleged SF computer saboteur's bail request denied
Criminal Law 07/24/2008A judge on Wednesday refused to reduce the $5 million bail of a San Francisco technology expert accused of rigging the city's computer system to malfunction during routine maintenance.Terry Childs has been jailed since July 13 on four felony counts o...
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Louisiana asks court to reopen child rape case
Criminal Law 07/22/2008Louisiana prosecutors asked the Supreme Court on Monday to revisit its recent decision outlawing the death penalty for people convicted of raping children.The unusual request is based on the failure of anyone involved in the case — lawyers on both si...
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2 Marines charged in nurse's slaying due in court
Criminal Law 07/15/2008Authorities in North Carolina say a Marine charged in the death of his wife, an Army nurse, will appear in court along with a fellow serviceman. The hearing is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday in Fayetteville, near Fort Bragg.Marine Cpl. John Wimunc was ...
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Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies
Criminal Law 07/10/2008[##_1L|1227119467.jpg|width="120" height="88" alt=""|_##]Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in reinstating charges against three men accused of digging up a corpse so one of them could have sex with it. T...
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Court proceedings begin for killing-spree suspect
Criminal Law 07/03/2008Now that the multistate manhunt has ended, legal wrangling has begun over an ex-convict suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in Illinois and Missouri.Nicholas T. Sheley appeared at a brief court hearing Wednesday via a video feed ...