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Today's Crimes and Trials: Calif. jury gets 'Alpha Dog' kidnap-murder case Arms dealer gets 25 years in NYC terror case Guantanamo detainee seeks `Black Sites' access Reputed mob boss pleads guilty in Mass. bribe case Guilty pleas in Ohio corruption probe 2 more face charges in Vegas boy abduction case Video of weapons-filled home shown at NH trial Racketeering defendant's rap sheet dates from 1943 Jackson will sets family trust, funeral undecided NE Pa. lawyer pleads guilty in $2.5M kickback scam Mass. teacher found with student pleads not guilty Fed. Prop. 8 Case All Systems Go NJ man on 15th drunken-driving offense: I'm guilty Medical examiner: Ore. girl appeared malnourished Judge favors trial soon on Calif. gay marriage ban Former Texas pastor sentenced in child porn case Jackson family says the singer's will has surfaced Judge Sotomayor and the Supreme Court's Firefighter Ruling Texas mogul Stanford to stay in jail pending trial Fed. Prop. 8 Case Full Speed Ahead Calif. jury gets 'Alpha Dog' kidnap-murder case Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:41 pm PDT AP - A jury is considering the case of Jesse James Hollywood, who is accused of kidnapping a teenager over a drug debt and then ordering his death in a case that inspired the 2007 movie "Alpha Dog." Full Story Top Arms dealer gets 25 years in NYC terror case Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:39 pm PDT AP - A man extradited from Romania in a plot to sell weapons to Colombian militants has been sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison. Full Story Top Guantanamo detainee seeks `Black Sites' access Wed, 1 Jul 2009 05:33 pm PDT AP - Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee charged in federal court in Manhattan with terrorism offenses have asked the U.S. government to preserve locations where he was held overseas at so-called "Black Sites." Full Story Top Reputed mob boss pleads guilty in Mass. bribe case Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:20 pm PDT AP - The reputed underboss of the New England mob has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in a plea deal that will send him to prison for six years. Full Story Top Guilty pleas in Ohio corruption probe Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:59 pm PDT AP - Two former county government employees in Ohio pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges in an plot to bribe public officials with casino trips, expensive meals and limousine rides in return for steering contracts. Full Story Top 2 more face charges in Vegas boy abduction case Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:52 pm PDT AP - Two more defendants have been named in a federal cocaine trafficking case stemming from the kidnapping of a 6-year-old boy from his Las Vegas home last October. Full Story Top Video of weapons-filled home shown at NH trial Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:50 pm PDT AP - A federal jury in New Hampshire has seen a video showing that a tax-evading couple had filled their home with weapons the day they were arrested in October 2007. Full Story Top Racketeering defendant's rap sheet dates from 1943 Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:52 pm PDT AP - At 92, Frank Colacurcio Sr. shows little sign of slowing down in a life of crime that began back in the FDR administration with a statutory rape conviction. Full Story Top Jackson will sets family trust, funeral undecided Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:08 pm PDT Reuters - Lawyers for Michael Jackson filed the pop star's 2002 will in court on Wednesday that puts his multimillion-dollar estate in a family trust for his three children and his mother, but were denied a bid to take immediate control of his music fortune. Full Story Top NE Pa. lawyer pleads guilty in $2.5M kickback scam Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:08 pm PDT AP - A lawyer at the center of a $2.5 million kickback scheme involving a pair of corrupt judges and hundreds of juvenile criminal cases pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday. Full Story Top Mass. teacher found with student pleads not guilty Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:58 am PDT AP - A former Massachusetts schoolteacher who was found with a student at a West Virginia motel has pleaded not guilty to rape. Full Story Top Fed. Prop. 8 Case All Systems Go Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:23 am PDT The Advocate - As previously reported on Advocate.com, U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker has said he wanted to dispense with Thursday's scheduled preliminary injunction hearing and instead "proceed expeditiously to trial, a decision on the merits and final judgment." Full Story Top NJ man on 15th drunken-driving offense: I'm guilty Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:03 am PDT AP - A New Jersey man whose driver's license has been suspended 78 times has pleaded guilty to his 15th drunken-driving offense. Full Story Top Medical examiner: Ore. girl appeared malnourished Wed, 1 Jul 2009 02:36 am 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 in the manslaughter trial of her parents. Full Story Top 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 Top 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 Top 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 Top 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 Top 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 Top 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 Top

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