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Feds: Fmr. Mass. speaker's lawyer has conflict
Lawyer Blogs 08/10/2009Prosecutors have asked a judge to disqualify the lawyer representing former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi in his federal corruption case, because the lawyer also gave advice to a prosecution witness. Court documents unsealed this week ...
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Reputed drug kingpin Montoya to plead guilty
Lawyer Blogs 08/09/2009Prosecutors say one of Colombia's most notorious reputed cocaine kingpins is set to plead guilty next week to U.S. drug charges. A Miami federal judge on Friday set a change of plea hearing for Tuesday for "Don" Diego Montoya, the alleged chief of Co...
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NY court: US govt can withhold Spitzer documents
Lawyer Blogs 08/07/2009An appeals court says the federal government does not have to release information about wiretaps from the investigation that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals found Friday that The New York Times had no...
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Ex-Edwards mistress at court amid campaign probe
Lawyer Blogs 08/06/2009The former mistress of John Edwards arrived at a federal courthouse in Raleigh where a grand jury was meeting Thursday — an appearance that comes as federal investigators examine the two-time presidential candidate's finances.Rielle Hunter walked int...
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Va. conviction overturned in Ga. woman's death
Lawyer Blogs 08/05/2009An ex-Navy SEAL trainee had his murder and abduction convictions overturned Tuesday after spending 13 years in prison for killing a Georgia college student who was vacationing in Virginia.A divided Virginia Court of Appeals panel granted Dustin Turne...
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Nevada Supreme Court to weigh OJ release on appeal
Lawyer Blogs 08/03/2009Lawyers for O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy hope to persuade a Nevada Supreme Court panel to spring the two men from prison while the justices review their convictions in a gunpoint hotel room heist.Simpson and convicted co-defendant Clarence...
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Judge declines to delay trial in Chandra Levy case
Lawyer Blogs 08/03/2009A judge has refused to push back the trial for the man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a Washington intern.At a hearing Friday, prosecutors told D.C. Superior Court Judge Geoffrey Alprin that they have provided more than 5,000 pages of evi...
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`Girls Gone Wild' lawyer: NV bribe claim bogus
Lawyer Blogs 07/27/2009Federal prosecutors brought trumped up charges against a Hollywood associate of "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis, two ex-sheriff's deputies and a jail worker to pressure them to implicate Francis in an alleged bribery scandal, a lawyer said. Att...
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GOP Sen. Sessions to oppose Sotomayor
Lawyer Blogs 07/27/2009The senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions says he doesn't think Sotomayor has the convictions to resist the pull of judicial activism once she bec...
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Calif. teen faces trial in gay classmate's killing
Lawyer Blogs 07/23/2009A Southern California junior high school student has been ordered to stand trial in the fatal shooting of a gay classmate. Ventura County Superior Court Judge Ken Riley said Wednesday that there was enough evidence to try 15-year-old Brandon McInerne...
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Court orders Oracle, Alinghi to return to mediation
Lawyer Blogs 07/22/2009A New York judge on Tuesday ordered Swizerland's Alinghi and Oracle of the United States to resume their mediation in their dispute over the rules over the America's Cup, the two teams said.Both sides agreed to head back to the bargaining table to pr...
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Boston trolley driver pleads not guilty in crash
Lawyer Blogs 07/20/2009The former Boston subway operator who authorities say was texting during a crash that injured more than 60 people has pleaded not guilty in the case. Aiden Quinn was arraigned Monday in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of gross negligence by a perso...