Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Daily News Digest: Crimes and Trials

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Today's Crimes and Trials:
Medical examiner: Ore. girl appeared malnourished
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:37 pm PDT
AP - A 15-month-old girl whose parents' church shuns doctors in favor of faith healing appeared to be malnourished after her death from pneumonia, a deputy medical examiner testified Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of her parents. Full Story
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Judge favors trial soon on Calif. gay marriage ban
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:51 pm PDT
AP - A federal judge wants a trial on California's same-sex marriage ban to proceed quickly but says he likely won't suspend the voter-approved ban in the meantime. Full Story
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Trial begins in NH weapons and conspiracy case
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:00 pm PDT
AP - A retired exterminator and his dentist wife held hands and talked in court Tuesday as a prosecutor called them dangerous anti-government radicals and their lawyers said it was reasonable for them to fear for their lives. Full Story
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Former Texas pastor sentenced in child porn case
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:59 pm PDT
AP - A former Texas pastor who admitted having more than 600 images of child pornography on his church computer has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. Full Story
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Jackson family says the singer's will has surfaced
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:37 pm PDT
AP - A will for Michael Jackson has surfaced and is expected in court soon, a lawyer for the family said Tuesday, countering their previous claim that he died without such a document. Full Story
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Judge Sotomayor and the Supreme Court's Firefighter Ruling
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:30 pm PDT
Time.com - Despite the rebuke of her past ruling, Obama's first high-court pick could have significant influence on discrimination cases Full Story
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Texas mogul Stanford to stay in jail pending trial
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:29 pm PDT
AFP - Texan cricket mogul and billionaire financier Allen Stanford is a "serious flight risk" and must remain in jail until his multi-billion dollar fraud case comes to trial, a judge ruled Tuesday. Full Story
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Fed. Prop. 8 Case Full Speed Ahead
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:11 pm PDT
The Advocate - The judge in the Ted Olson-David Boies federal lawsuit to overturn California's Prop. 8 and thereby restore same-sex marriage rights issued a ruling this afternoon saying he wanted to dispense with the preliminary injunction hearing set for tomorrow and ask the parties instead to discuss "case management" -- a phrase the plaintiffs are interpreting as meaning moving speedily toward a full trial. Full Story
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Judge orders Allen Stanford jailed until trial
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:06 pm PDT
Reuters - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Texas financier Allen Stanford, accused of a $7 billion fraud, held without bail until trial. Full Story
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US: UBS must release names of suspected tax cheats
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:39 pm PDT
AP - Swiss bank UBS AG "systematically and deliberately" violated U.S. law by dispatching private bankers to recruit wealthy Americans interested in evading taxes and must be forced to reveal the identities of 52,000 of those clients, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday. Full Story
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Ex-pastor sought in Ind. multimillion-dollar fraud
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:07 pm PDT
AP - A former pastor and his sons were charged with securities fraud in Indiana on Tuesday in what officials said was a multimillion-dollar scheme aimed at church members who thought they were helping build churches but were actually buying the men planes and sports cars. Full Story
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Bankrupt Vick's lawyers pitch new payment plan
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:54 pm PDT
AFP - Once and possibly future American football star Michael Vick will provide creditors with more money under a new Chapter 11 bankruptcy repayment plan outlined at a court hearing on Tuesday. Full Story
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Jackson family: Michael Jackson had a will
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:43 pm PDT
AP - The lawyer for Michael Jackson's family says a will for the late pop star has been presented and is to be filed in court. Full Story
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U.S. spy says just followed orders in Italy kidnap
Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:03 am PDT
Reuters - A former U.S. spy at the center of a kidnapping trial in Italy appeared to acknowledge a role in the abduction of a Muslim cleric but said he was only following orders, according to a rare interview published on Tuesday. Full Story
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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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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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