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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Fugitive whale campaigner vows to stop Japan hunt Jury gives death penalty in Pa. torture killing Colorado shooting suspect may have called university before rampage Defense: Shooting suspect made call before attack Ex-News International legal chief arrested Matthew Scheidt, 18, Found Guilty of Impersonating Physician's Assistant Texas man sentenced to 99 years over gang rape of 11-year-old Pa. parents sentenced in death of baby left alone Scores arrested in new Maldives protest against Nasheed ruling Ga. prosecutor seeks death penalty for 3 soldiers Jury deliberates Texas sex assault case Soldiers Turned Terrorists Will Face the Death Penalty Former college lacrosse player to be sentenced for 2010 murder 73 people arrested for recent Ivory Coast attacks DA eyes death penalty in soldier militia plot case Missing Defendant in Texas Gang Rape Case Found Guilty Top News of the World Lawyer Accused by Murdoch Arrested Taiwan typhoon hero arrested over corruption claims Ex-U.VA. athlete to be sentenced in beating death Rapper Beanie Sigel arrested for drug, gun possession: report Lawyers: Former SEAL Author Is Almost Certainly Facing Legal Trouble UVa. Lacrosse Killer George Huguely Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison Veteran FBI crime-fighter says "The Wire" rings true Motorola Secrets Thief Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison Journalist arrested in UK computer hacking probe Fugitive whale campaigner vows to stop Japan hunt Thu,30 Aug 2012 08:56 PM PDT AFP - Fugitive Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson vowed Friday to spearhead his group's next campaign against Japan's annual whale hunt, pledging to prevent a single animal being killed. Full Story Top Jury gives death penalty in Pa. torture killing Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:41 PM PDT Associated Press - A man who pleaded guilty to murder in the torture killing of a mentally disabled woman held captive in a dingy western Pennsylvania apartment has been given the death penalty. Full Story Top Colorado shooting suspect may have called university before rampage Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:18 PM PDT Reuters - CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes may have phoned h is former university just nine minutes before last month's shooting at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" that killed 12 people, his lawyer said on Thursday. In a pretrial hearing, defense attorney Tamara Brady raised the possibility of such a call while questioning Dr. Lynne Fenton, a University of Colorado psychiatrist w h o treated Holmes in the month before the July 20 movie house shooting. ... Full Story Top Defense: Shooting suspect made call before attack Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:32 PM PDT Associated Press - The suspect in the Colorado shooting rampage tried unsuccessfully to call his university psychiatrist 9 minutes before he opened fire during a Batman movie premiere, defense attorneys revealed in court Thursday. Full Story Top Ex-News International legal chief arrested Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:25 PM PDT AFP - The former legal advisor to Rupert Murdoch's News International newspaper group was arrested by police investigating alleged phone hacking. Full Story Top Matthew Scheidt, 18, Found Guilty of Impersonating Physician's Assistant Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:23 PM PDT Good Morning America - Teenager Faces Up to 25 Years When He Is Sentenced in November Full Story Top Texas man sentenced to 99 years over gang rape of 11-year-old Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:16 PM PDT Reuters - SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas man accused of taking part in the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in an abandoned trailer along with 19 other men and boys was convicted on Thursday of aggravated sexual assault in a case that shocked a small Texas town, court officials said. The man, 20-year-old Eric McGowen, was sentenced to 99 years in prison, Liberty County Court officials said. He had been free on bond pending the outcome of the trial but disappeared after the victim testified against him on Wednesday. A warrant was issued for his arrest. ... Full Story Top Pa. parents sentenced in death of baby left alone Thu,30 Aug 2012 05:09 PM PDT Associated Press - Two eastern Pennsylvania parents whose baby daughter was left alone in a car seat in a hot room for several hours and died have been sentenced to time behind bars. Full Story Top Scores arrested in new Maldives protest against Nasheed ruling Thu,30 Aug 2012 04:55 PM PDT Reuters - MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested at least 12 people in the early hours of Friday to break up a protest by supporters of former president Mohamed Nasheed against a report that said he had been replaced legitimately. Hundreds of angry supporters of Nasheed had blocked a main road in the capital Male for three hours before the arrests forced them to disperse. On Thursday, around 50 protesters had been detained. After his removal on February 7, Nasheed, in power since 2008, said he had been forced to resign at gunpoint by mutinying police and soldiers. ... Full Story Top Ga. prosecutor seeks death penalty for 3 soldiers Thu,30 Aug 2012 12:26 PM PDT Associated Press - Georgia prosecutors will seek the death penalty against three Army soldiers accused of killing a former serviceman and his girlfriend to protect an anti-government militia group, officials said Thursday during tense court hearings in which one victim's stepfather was tackled and handcuffed as he tried to rush the defense table. Full Story Top Jury deliberates Texas sex assault case Thu,30 Aug 2012 12:04 PM PDT Associated Press - Attorneys have made their closing arguments and the jury has begun deliberating in the first trial to stem from the alleged repeated sexual assault of a young Texas girl by 20 men and boys two years ago. Full Story Top Soldiers Turned Terrorists Will Face the Death Penalty Thu,30 Aug 2012 10:45 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The three Georgia-based Army soldiers accused of killing a young couple and plotting to assassinate President Obama are getting the book thrown at them. In Long Country Superior Court Thursday, District Attorney Tom Durden vowed to seek the death penalty for F.E.A.R. militia members Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, Sgt. Anthony Peden and Pvt. Christopher Salmon, reports the Associated Press. Meanwhile, grieving relatives of the victims tell the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the F.E.A.R. members should be put to death. ... Full Story Top Former college lacrosse player to be sentenced for 2010 murder Thu,30 Aug 2012 09:53 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - A former University of Virginia lacrosse player faces up to 26 years in prison at his sentencing on Thursday for the 2010 murder of his ex-girlfriend, who was beaten to death shortly before she was due to graduate. A jury in February found George Huguely V, 24, guilty of second-degree murder and grand larceny in the death of 22-year-old Yeardley Love, who prosecutors said died of blunt force trauma after her head was slammed against a wall. ... Full Story Top 73 people arrested for recent Ivory Coast attacks Thu,30 Aug 2012 09:32 AM PDT Associated Press - Ivory Coast's military prosecutor says that 73 people, including 19 soldiers, have been detained in connection with a recent spate of attacks on military positions in the West African nation. Full Story Top DA eyes death penalty in soldier militia plot case Thu,30 Aug 2012 07:12 AM PDT Associated Press - A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty against one of three Georgia-based soldiers accused of killing two people to protect an anti-government militia. Full Story Top Missing Defendant in Texas Gang Rape Case Found Guilty Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:47 AM PDT ABC News - Eric McGowen Was Not in Court When He Was Convicted of Sexual Assault Full Story Top Top News of the World Lawyer Accused by Murdoch Arrested Thu,30 Aug 2012 06:17 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Four months after News Corporation owner Rupert Murdoch threw his News of the World legal chief under the bus during his testimony to the Leveson Inquiry, police in London arrested that lawyer this morning, the 25th arrest in the phone-hacking scandal. The interesting thing about Tom Crone, the former legal manager for News of the World, is that his role at the paper was to keep it out of legal trouble, but in the end it was his own former employer, News parent company News Corporation, that provided the evidence that got Crone taken in. ... Full Story Top Taiwan typhoon hero arrested over corruption claims Thu,30 Aug 2012 02:55 AM PDT AFP - Taiwan's former fire chief Huang Chi-min, hailed as a hero for leading rescue efforts during Typhoon Morakot in 2009, has been arrested on corruption allegations, officials said Thursday. Full Story Top Ex-U.VA. athlete to be sentenced in beating death Thu,30 Aug 2012 02:16 AM PDT Associated Press - A former University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend is facing a jury's recommended sentence of 26 years in prison at sentencing Thursday. Full Story Top Rapper Beanie Sigel arrested for drug, gun possession: report Wed,29 Aug 2012 05:32 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel was arrested on Wednesday on drug and gun possession charges, celebrity website TMZ.com reported, days before he was headed to prison for tax evasion. The rapper, whose real name is Dwight Grant, was arrested during a traffic stop during which police found prescription pills, marijuana, a gun and cash in his car, TMZ.com said. Sigel, 38, best known for his collaborations with rapper Jay-Z and R&B artist R. ... Full Story Top Lawyers: Former SEAL Author Is Almost Certainly Facing Legal Trouble Wed,29 Aug 2012 03:09 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - The publisher and author of No Easy Day, an upcoming tell-all on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, promised the book doesn't reveal classified information. But government privacy lawyers speaking with The Atlantic Wire say the book almost certainly does.  Full Story Top UVa. Lacrosse Killer George Huguely Sentenced to 23 Years in Prison Wed,29 Aug 2012 01:32 PM PDT ABC News - George Huguely V Was Convicted for the Murder of Ex-Girlfriend Yeardley Love Full Story Top Veteran FBI crime-fighter says "The Wire" rings true Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:08 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The new head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's criminal division in New York, one of the nation's highest-profile law enforcement posts, is used to answering questions about her colorful 22-year career as an FBI special agent. April Brooks, 45, the first woman to run New York's FBI criminal division, worked gang cases in Los Angeles near the height of that city's crack epidemic. She was tracking sex offenders and supervising child kidnapping probes in the bureau's Crimes Against Children squad in 2002 when Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart disappeared. ... Full Story Top Motorola Secrets Thief Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison Wed,29 Aug 2012 09:01 AM PDT Mashable - China-born American Hanjuan Jin has been convicted of stealing trade secrets from Motorola -- and on Wednesday, she was sentenced to four years in prison. Full Story Top Journalist arrested in UK computer hacking probe Wed,29 Aug 2012 08:43 AM PDT Associated Press - British police investigating computer hacking and privacy offenses arrested a journalist Wednesday at his home. Full Story Top

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