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James Holmes' attorneys again challenge law on insanity pleas
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — With the stakes for their client literally life or death, defense attorneys for James E. Holmes on Thursday again challenged the constitutionality of Colorado's law governing insanity pleas. Holmes, 25, is accused in the July...Tags: Psychiatrists, Colorado Movie Theater Shooting, Laws, Death Penalty, Trials
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Drug cartel boss pleads guilty to murder in U.S. agent's death
WASHINGTON — A Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder in a 2011 ambush south of the border that left one American agent dead and a second injured, and which sharply strained U.S.-Mexico relations....
Tags: Mexico City, Firearms, Organized Crime, Theft, Mexico
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Mexican drug cartel commander pleads guilty in 2011 ambush
WASHINGTON — A top Mexican drug cartel commander pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in the 2011 ambush attack south of the border that left one American agent dead and a second injured, and three other defendants also admitted their...
Tags: Organized Crime, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Justice System, Mexico
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James Holmes ordered 6 packages from ammo firm, documents show
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Less than a month before last summer’s Aurora movie theater massacre, suspect James E. Holmes ordered six packages from an online ammunition supplier, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. According to the...
Tags: Apple iPod, James Holmes, Colorado Movie Theater Shooting, FedEx Corporation, Trials
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Captain of shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship to face trial
ROME -- The captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, which crashed on rocks off the Italian coast last year, was ordered by a judge Wednesday to stand trial for manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. Thirty-two of the more than 4,...
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Trials
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LAPD officer charged with molesting two girls at his home
Prosecutors have filed charges against a veteran Los Angeles police officer who allegedly lured two young girls to his Castaic-area home and molested them. Miguel Angel Schiappapietra Jr., 28, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two felony counts of lewd acts...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Trials, Prosecution
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Guilty plea in KPMG insider-trading case
A San Fernando Valley jeweler at the center of an insider-trading scandal pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and agreed to turn over $1.27 million in ill-gotten stock gains made from tips from a top auditor at accounting giant KPMG. Bryan Shaw, 52,...
Tags: FBI, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Business Enterprises, Accounting and Auditing, Services and Shopping
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O.J. Simpson testifies in bid for new trial
LAS VEGAS -- Appearing confident but sometimes emotional, O.J. Simpson testified Wednesday that he did not know guns were involved in a confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers that led to his conviction for armed robbery and kidnapping, and a...
Tags: Civil Rights, Theft, Trials, Prisons, Prosecution
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Texas paramedic will plead not guilty to federal weapons charge
A Texas paramedic arrested last week will plead not guilty to a federal charge of having bomb-making materials and will waive a formal arraignment on a new federal indictment, it was reported Wednesday. Bryce Reed, who was among the emergency crews that...
Tags: Explosions, Lawyers, Sheldon Adelson, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Colorado judge allows James Holmes to move toward insanity defense
This post has been corrected, as indicated belowCENTENNIAL, Colo. -- The judge in the Aurora movie theater massacre case paved the way Monday for James E. Holmes to plead not guilty by reason of insanity but did not formally accept that plea, delaying that decision until later this month. Judge...Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Mother's Day, Judges, James Holmes
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Enron's Jeff Skilling doesn't deserve a break
As if you didn't know this already, we're coddling criminals in America. By that I don't mean the petty drug dealers, three-strikes necklace-snatchers and other mooks filling up our state prisons; many of them are doing hard time. I'm talking about...
Tags: Securities, Countrywide Financial Corp., Theft, Trials, Prisons
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Judge temporarily delays 12-week abortion law in Arkansas
An Arkansas law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Friday. In a ruling from the bench, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock granted a preliminary injunction...Tags: Women's Health, American Civil Liberties Union, Laws, Trials, Mike Beebe
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