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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Italian marines under anti-terrorism probe, death penalty possible Lawyer: Trauma drove woman who cut off man's penis New hearing for Arkansas inmate sentenced as teen Kennedy cousin testifies in latest bid to overturn murder conviction Texas Prosecutor and Ex-Governor Agree: No Death Penalty for Being Black Bauer: FBI Video Links Southern Poverty Law Center to FRC Shooter's Act of Domestic Terrorism Mexican Farm Owner Sentenced For Scheme to Defraud the Export-Import Bank of the U.S Rapper 2 Chainz acquitted of Md. drug charge Soccer-Finnish bosses sentenced for money laundering

Italian marines under anti-terrorism probe, death penalty possible  Friday, Apr 26, 2013 12:36 AM PDT By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian anti-terrorism agency will investigate the case of two Italian marines accused of murdering two Indian fishermen, India's top court said on Friday, raising the possibility once more of the men facing the death penalty. The accused, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, are charged with murder in connection with the shooting of fishermen off the coast of the southern state of Kerala last year while serving as security guards on a cargo ship. ... Full Story	Top
Lawyer: Trauma drove woman who cut off man's penis  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 10:33 PM PDT SANTA ANA, California (AP) — The defense attorney for a woman charged with severing the penis of her estranged husband said she "had a break from reality" the night of the attack. Full Story	Top
New hearing for Arkansas inmate sentenced as teen  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 02:22 PM PDT LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man sentenced to life in prison without parole when he was 14 years old could end up serving a much shorter prison term after Arkansas' highest court ruled Thursday that he deserves a new sentencing hearing. Full Story	Top
Kennedy cousin testifies in latest bid to overturn murder conviction  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 01:26 PM PDT (Reuters) - Imprisoned Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel took the stand in a Connecticut courtroom on Thursday in his latest bid to have his murder conviction for the 1975 killing of a Greenwich teenager thrown out, according to news reports. Skakel's testimony came during a wrongful imprisonment trial in Vernon, Connecticut, before a state judge, who will decide whether to grant him a new trial on the grounds that his previous defense attorney, Mickey Sherman, did not competently defend him. ... Full Story	Top
Texas Prosecutor and Ex-Governor Agree: No Death Penalty for Being Black  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 12:30 PM PDT Former Harris County, Texas, prosecutor Linda Geffin had no idea what was at stake the day the defense team she was up against called psychologist Walter Quijano to the stand to testify in the murder trial of Duane Buck. Full Story	Top
Bauer: FBI Video Links Southern Poverty Law Center to FRC Shooter's Act of Domestic Terrorism  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 11:18 AM PDT WASHINGTON, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer, citing the release this week of an FBI interrogation video, demanded that the Southern Poverty Law Center stop falsely labeling pro-family Christian ministries as "hate groups." Floyd Lee Corkins II plead guilty to shooting a security guard at the Family Research Council and to charges of domestic terrorism.  On a video released this week, Corkins admits to FBI agents that he targeted FRC after seeing it listed as an anti-gay hate group on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website. ... Full Story	Top
Mexican Farm Owner Sentenced For Scheme to Defraud the Export-Import Bank of the U.S  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 09:08 AM PDT WASHINGTON, April, 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that a Mexican farm owner was sentenced to serve 60 months' probation for his role in a scheme to defraud Ex-Im Bank of approximately $825,563. Jaime Galvan-Guerrero, 40, was sentenced by Judge Kathleen Cardone in U.S. District Court in El Paso, TX.  In addition to his term of probation, Galvan was ordered to pay $825,563 in forfeiture and a $2,000 fine. ... Full Story	Top
Rapper 2 Chainz acquitted of Md. drug charge  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 07:40 AM PDT EASTON, Md. (AP) — Rapper 2 Chainz has been acquitted of drug charges he faced after a traffic stop on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Full Story	Top
Soccer-Finnish bosses sentenced for money laundering  Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 05:52 AM PDT HELSINKI, April 25 (Reuters) - Two former top officials of Finnish club Tampere United were found guilty on Thursday of money laundering after accepting funds from a Singaporean company that had obtained the money through match fixing. The court of appeals of Turku, Finland, handed former managing director Deniz Bavautdin and former board chairman Harri Pyhalto six-month suspended sentences. ... Full Story	Top

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