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  • Va. conviction overturned in Ga. woman's death

    Va. conviction overturned in Ga. woman's death

    Lawyer Blogs 08/05/2009

    An 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...

  • Nevada Supreme Court to weigh OJ release on appeal

    Nevada Supreme Court to weigh OJ release on appeal

    Lawyer Blogs 08/03/2009

    Lawyers 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...

  • Judge declines to delay trial in Chandra Levy case

    Judge declines to delay trial in Chandra Levy case

    Lawyer Blogs 08/03/2009

    A 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...

  • `Girls Gone Wild' lawyer: NV bribe claim bogus

    `Girls Gone Wild' lawyer: NV bribe claim bogus

    Lawyer Blogs 07/27/2009

    Federal 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...

  • GOP Sen. Sessions to oppose Sotomayor

    GOP Sen. Sessions to oppose Sotomayor

    Lawyer Blogs 07/27/2009

    The 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...

  • Calif. teen faces trial in gay classmate's killing

    Calif. teen faces trial in gay classmate's killing

    Lawyer Blogs 07/23/2009

    A 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...

  • Court orders Oracle, Alinghi to return to mediation

    Court orders Oracle, Alinghi to return to mediation

    Lawyer Blogs 07/22/2009

    A 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...

  • Boston trolley driver pleads not guilty in crash

    Boston trolley driver pleads not guilty in crash

    Lawyer Blogs 07/20/2009

    The 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...

  • Ruling: Court failed its duty to Muslim scholar

    Ruling: Court failed its duty to Muslim scholar

    Lawyer Blogs 07/20/2009

    U.S. officials should have given a Muslim scholar a chance to show he was no supporter of terrorism before barring him from the country, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Tariq Ramadan, a professor sympathetic to Palestinian resistance to Israel,...

  • Washington court reverses ban on homeless camp

    Washington court reverses ban on homeless camp

    Lawyer Blogs 07/17/2009

    A Seattle suburb violated the state's constitution by using a temporary ban on development to block a church's effort to set up a tent city for the homeless, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The high court's unanimous decision reversed lower c...

  • Mich. minister wins appeal on free-speech grounds

    Mich. minister wins appeal on free-speech grounds

    Lawyer Blogs 07/16/2009

    A Michigan appeals court overturned a ruling on Wednesday that had sent a minister to prison for six months after warning a judge that he could be tortured by God. The Rev. Edward Pinkney was convicted in 2007 of paying people $5 to vote in a recall ...

  • Sotomayor says Obama didn't ask about abortion

    Sotomayor says Obama didn't ask about abortion

    Lawyer Blogs 07/15/2009

    Judge Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in the administration asked her views on abortion rights before she was nominated for the Supreme Court. "I was asked no question by anyone including the president ab...

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