Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Daily News Digest: Crimes and Trials

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Today's Crimes and Trials:
Man to stand trial for killing 3 in SFC traffic
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:20 pm PDT
AP - An illegal immigrant accused of fatally shooting a father and his two sons in San Francisco traffic last year will stand trial for murder, a judge ruled Monday. Full Story
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Mass. neighbor accused of trying to rape girl, 6
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:07 pm PDT
AP - A man lured his son's 6-year-old friend to an apartment with a promise to show her some pet gerbils, then bound her with tape and leg shackles, injected her with an unknown substance and tried to rape her, but she fled while still chained, authorities said Monday. Full Story
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Parents file papers to administer Jackson estate
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:07 pm PDT
AP - Michael Jackson's mother asked a Superior Court judge on Monday to name her administrator of her late son's estate so she can ensure the King of Pop's three children are its beneficiaries. Full Story
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Top court allows NY state's home lending probe
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:47 pm PDT
Reuters - A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the New York attorney general's office can investigate whether national banks discriminated against minorities seeking mortgages. Full Story
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Jury convicts Pa. man of murder in Accutane case
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:26 pm PDT
AP - A Pennsylvania man who claims mood swings from an acne drug caused him to fatally stab a 16-year-old cheerleader has been convicted of murder. Full Story
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Prosecutors seek to keep Stanford in jail
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:13 pm PDT
Reuters - U.S. government attorneys told a Texas judge on Monday that accused swindler Allen Stanford should stay in jail pending trial because he would likely flee the country rather than face a potential life prison sentence. Full Story
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Madoff sentenced to 150 years in prison
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:37 am PDT
Reuters - U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin sentenced disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, 71, to 150 years in prison on Monday for perpetrating Wall Street's biggest and most brazen investment fraud. Full Story
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Cat-and-mouse at Wikipedia over NYTimes kidnapping
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:07 am PDT
AFP - The New York Times worked with Wikipedia to keep news of the kidnapping of one of its reporters in Afghanistan off the online user-edited encyclopedia, the newspaper reported on Monday. Full Story
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Court rules for white firefighters over promotions
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:02 am PDT
AP - The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge. Full Story
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Jackson was acquitted at trial but never recovered
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:30 pm PDT
AP - Michael Jackson called his trial on child molestation claims, "the hardest thing I've ever done in my life." Acquitted of all charges by a jury but convicted by public opinion, he spent the rest of his life trying to recover from the ordeal. Full Story
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AP Enterprise: '91 death verdict splits Ga. jurors
Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:49 am PDT
AP - Inside the jury room, seven men and five women huddled around a table to discuss a parade of witnesses in the case of an off-duty police officer shot and killed outside a fast-food restaurant. Full Story
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Chilean found guilty in Colo. student's slaying
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:53 pm PDT
AP - A jury on Friday convicted a Chilean national in the 1997 beating death of a University of Colorado student, a crime that was cold for about a decade until a DNA sample connected him to the murder. Full Story
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Detroit councilwoman pleads guilty in bribery case
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:39 pm PDT
AP - City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of powerful and popular Democratic congressman John Conyers, pleaded guilty Friday to accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company. Full Story
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Russia won't participate in Jewish documents suit
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:29 pm PDT
AP - Russia told a U.S. court on Friday that judges have no authority to tell the country how to handle sacred Jewish documents held in its state library that were seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies. Full Story
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Scrushy asks judge for new trial in bribery case
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:41 pm PDT
AP - Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy asked a judge to grant him a new trial Friday, saying he was a victim of selective prosecution when he was convicted of bribery in 2006. Full Story
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Rapper Coolio reaches plea deal in drug case
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:13 pm PDT
AP - Rapper Coolio has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles to felony cocaine possession in a deal that requires him to spend 18 months in rehab. Full Story
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NY prosecutors seek 150-year sentence for Madoff
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:05 pm PDT
AP - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff should receive a 150-year sentence for orchestrating perhaps the largest financial swindle in history, federal prosecutors said in court papers Friday. Full Story
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Rapper Coolio pleads guilty to cocaine possession
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:53 pm PDT
Reuters - Rap star Coolio pleaded guilty on Friday to possession of cocaine and will avoid jail by entering an 18-month drug rehabilitation program, a spokeswoman for prosecutors said. Full Story
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Suspect in Kansas porn model slaying back in US
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:42 pm PDT
AP - A man suspected of killing a Kansas college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn model is being held on a $3 million bond in Kansas following his extradition from Mexico. Full Story
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'Rockefeller' asks judge to toss kidnap conviction
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:37 am PDT
AP - Lawyers for the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller asked a judge to throw out his kidnapping and assault convictions, arguing that the state's mental health expert was unqualified and that a prosecutor made an improper closing argument. Full Story
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