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Today's Crimes and Trials: Manslaughter Charges in Clementi Case? Judge delays Guantanamo trial 'over witness issue' Free speech cases at top of Supreme Court's agenda Judge asked to postpone trial for Gulf spill cases 'Burly bandit' pleads guilty to 11 robberies Grand jury indicts accused California kidnappers Accused captors of US girl face kidnap, rape charges Blagojevich retrial defense team scaled down Colo. DA allegations involve suggestive text Jury to get case in Utah library explosion trial Pa. lawyer found guilty in Russian child-sex case US judge asks Vatican to serve court paper to pope Woman flees escaped prisoner who passed out drunk Bin Laden evidence allowed at detainee's NYC trial Connecticut Attorney General seeks 60-day freeze on foreclosures Amanda Knox faces preliminary slander hearing Final arguments set for Conn. home invasion trial Policeman tearfully describes carnage of blast Ariz. fugitives indicted on capital murder charges Correction: People-Kid Cudi story Manslaughter Charges in Clementi Case? Sat, 2 Oct 2010 01:39 pm PDT The Advocate - Equality Forum, a national LGBT advocacy group, is calling for manslaughter charges to be brought against the two Rutgers students who broadcast a sexually explicit video of Tyler Clementi on the Internet. Full Story Top Judge delays Guantanamo trial 'over witness issue' Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:00 am PDT AFP - A federal judge in New York has delayed the first civilian trial of a former Guantanamo detainee until Wednesday as prosecutors worried about losing a key witness, The New York Times reported. Full Story Top Free speech cases at top of Supreme Court's agenda Sat, 2 Oct 2010 06:35 am PDT AP - First Amendment cases top the Supreme Court's docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time. Full Story Top Judge asked to postpone trial for Gulf spill cases Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:17 am PDT AP - Some of the companies sued over the massive Gulf oil spill are asking a federal judge to postpone until 2012 a trial designed to assign percentages of fault in the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling project. Full Story Top 'Burly bandit' pleads guilty to 11 robberies Sat, 2 Oct 2010 03:14 am PDT AP - A Greyhound bus driver the FBI nicknamed the "burly bandit" stole more than $100,000 in a string of bank robberies in the Northeast and spent most of it on strip clubs, restaurants, sports memorabilia and other items before he was arrested in July, prosecutors say. Full Story Top Grand jury indicts accused California kidnappers Fri, 1 Oct 2010 10:52 pm PDT AP - California kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard and her two young daughters will be spared from having to testify in open court any time soon following a grand jury indictment of the couple charged with kidnapping and holding her captive for 18 years, a prosecutor said Friday. Full Story Top Accused captors of US girl face kidnap, rape charges Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:47 pm PDT AFP - A couple accused of kidnapping a young California girl, Jaycee Dugard, raping her and holding her captive for nearly two decades were indicted Friday by a grand jury. Full Story Top Blagojevich retrial defense team scaled down Fri, 1 Oct 2010 05:17 pm PDT AP - A defense team of more than a dozen attorneys and legal aides, who huddled around former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talking strategy or even comforting their client during his first corruption trial, won't be there for his second. Full Story Top Colo. DA allegations involve suggestive text Fri, 1 Oct 2010 04:36 pm PDT AP - Recent allegations against a western Colorado district attorney suspected of unlawful sexual contact include a claim that he sent a sexually suggestive text message to an ex-girlfriend. Full Story Top Jury to get case in Utah library explosion trial Fri, 1 Oct 2010 02:06 pm PDT AP - A federal jury in Utah has adjourned for the weekend without reaching a verdict in the trial of an Illinois man accused of bombing a downtown Salt Lake City library in 2006. Full Story Top Pa. lawyer found guilty in Russian child-sex case Fri, 1 Oct 2010 01:49 pm PDT AP - A suburban Philadelphia lawyer has been convicted of sexually abusing a Russian ballet dancer he helped support. Full Story Top US judge asks Vatican to serve court paper to pope Fri, 1 Oct 2010 01:44 pm PDT AP - A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin. Full Story Top Woman flees escaped prisoner who passed out drunk Fri, 1 Oct 2010 12:33 pm PDT AP - A Wyoming woman who was kidnapped and forced to drive an escaped prisoner to Montana got away from her abductor after he passed out drunk and she spotted an officer Friday, police said. Full Story Top Bin Laden evidence allowed at detainee's NYC trial Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:56 am PDT AP - Jurors in the trial of a Guantanamo detainee accused of supplying explosives for the deadly bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa can see Osama bin Laden's orders more than a decade ago that his followers kill Americans, a judge ruled Friday. Full Story Top Connecticut Attorney General seeks 60-day freeze on foreclosures Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:11 am PDT Reuters - Connecticut's attorney general on Friday called on state courts to freeze home foreclosures for 60 days after borrowers claimed that major lenders may be making misstatements in the foreclosure process. Full Story Top Amanda Knox faces preliminary slander hearing Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:34 am PDT Reuters - Amanda Knox, the American student convicted of killing her British flatmate in Italy three years ago, returned to court on Friday to face judges who will decide if she should be tried for slandering police in the case. Full Story Top Final arguments set for Conn. home invasion trial Fri, 1 Oct 2010 03:42 am PDT AP - A prosecutor and defense attorney were set to make closing arguments Friday in the trial of a man charged in the 2007 home invasion killings of a Connecticut woman and her two daughters. Full Story Top Policeman tearfully describes carnage of blast Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:18 pm PDT AP - A police detective broke down in tears Thursday as he told jurors in a murder trial about finding the bodies of two officers after a bomb went off in a bank. Full Story Top Ariz. fugitives indicted on capital murder charges Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:25 pm PDT AP - A federal grand jury has indicted two Arizona prison escapees and a woman who allegedly helped them escape on capital murder and carjacking charges in the New Mexico deaths of an Oklahoma couple. Full Story Top Correction: People-Kid Cudi story Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:30 pm PDT AP - In a Sept. 28 story about a court hearing on drug charges against rapper Kid Cudi, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by Manhattan prosecutors, erroneously reported that Cudi pleaded guilty to misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. Full Story Top

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