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CeaseFire complains police interfere with group's push to ease gang conflicts
CeaseFire Illinois workers say Chicago police officers are increasingly ordering them off street corners in Woodlawn along with gang members, interfering with their efforts to tamp down violence in the crime-plagued neighborhood. The alleged harassment...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Laws, North Lawndale, Armed Conflicts, Chicago Transit Authority
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Man found guilty in 2006 killing of Burger King manager
Twenty-seven years after his conviction for killing a pregnant woman and her three children in Chicago was overturned on appeal, James Ealy is once again facing a life sentence for murder. A Lake County jury found Ealy guilty Friday in the 2006...Tags: Lindenhurst (Lake, Illinois), Laws, Punishment, Prisons, Justice System
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Letters to the Editor - May 25
A country that can’t defend itself will fall To the editor: Khrushchev said we will conquer you from within. O’Malley and Obama are disarming us through legislation and executive order. They want the U.S. to be ruled by the U.N. “peace...Tags: Jessup (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Gun Control, Laws, Prisons, Politics
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From death row, Freemansburg cop killer fights foreclosure
George Hitcho Jr. may be on death row for killing a Freemansburg police officer, but he'd like to have a home to return to if he ever gets out. Facing mortgage foreclosure on the New Street property where he shot Robert A. Lasso in the back of the head...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Judges, Laws, Prisons, Justice System
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Illinois House votes to allow residents to carry concealed guns
ReutersBy Joanne von Alroth SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 24 (Reuters) - The Illinois House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly to allow residents to carry concealed guns, taking the state one step closer to joining all others in allowing some form of...Tags: Barack Obama, Laws, Executive Branch, Elections, Pat Quinn
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UPDATE: Man charged with killing mother-in-law, hurting wife in Buena Vista
A Buena Vista man has been charged with killing his mother-in-law and attacking his wife Thursday. The incident happened around 12:30 p.m. Thursday on Glasgow Avenue in Buena Vista. Michael J. O’Hare has been charged with first-degree murder for...
Tags: Prosecution, Laws, Murder, Crime, Law and Justice
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Lawyers in Colorado shooting case challenge insanity defense law
ReutersCENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - Lawyers for accused Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes argued on Thursday the state's insanity defense law was unconstitutional because it forces him to cooperate with court-appointed psychiatrists or forfeit the...Tags: Laws, Judges, Lawyers, Health and Medical Professionals, Justice System
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Scott Smith, Former Police Officer Once Charged With Murder, Committed Suicide
The Hartford CourantScott Smith's desire to serve his fellow citizens led him to become an emergency medical technician and, ultimately, a police officer in New Milford. But after shooting and killing a fleeing felon in the line of duty in December 1998, his police career...Tags: Punishment, Judges, Laws, Prisons, Justice System
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FBI reviews death of Chechen man shot during Florida questioning
ReutersORLANDO, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A special Federal Bureau of Investigation team from Washington on Thursday began reviewing the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, a day after he was shot and killed by an agent...Tags: Laws, Sports, Justice System, Mixed Martial Arts, Crime, Law and Justice
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FBI shooting-review team in Orlando investigates Ibragim Todashev killing
An FBI review team from Washington was in Orlando on Thursday investigating the death of Ibragim Todashev, the Central Florida man shot by an agent while being questioned about a triple murder in Massachusetts and his connection to the Boston Marathon...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Judges, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Laws, Sports
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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: Colorado Movie Theater Shooting, Laws, Punishment, John Hickenlooper, Mental Illness
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Arizona jury resumes weighing death penalty in Arias murder case
ReutersBy Tim Gaynor PHOENIX, May 23 (Reuters) - An Arizona jury, weighing whether Jodi Arias should be sentenced to death or life in prison for the murder of an ex-boyfriend five years ago, resumed deliberations Thursday, a day after the panel said it was...Tags: Laws, Punishment, Judges, Prisons, Justice System
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