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'Central Park Five,' graphically told
WASHINGTON -- From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from...
Tags: AIDS, New York City, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Central Park
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Judge declines to reconsider sentence in sledgehammer attack
Special to the TribuneA Lake County judge today denied a motion to reconsider the 61 year sentence he imposed last month on a woman convicted in February of the 2003 sledgehammer attack of her ex-husband and his wife in their Lincolnshire home. The sentence was more than...Tags: Lincolnshire, Judges, Murder, Lawyers, Punishment
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Conviction dropped in Schaumburg drug case tied to accused officer
Chicago TribuneA Cook County judge today threw out the conviction of a man whose charges were based largely on the testimony of a Schaumburg police officer who was later indicted for an alleged drug conspiracy. Prosecutors have dismissed about 20 pending cases...Tags: Judges, Drug Trafficking, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System
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Insecure justice in Maryland
While the nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of a poor person's constitutional right to a lawyer, Maryland legislators' support for House Bill 153 in the recently concluded General Assembly session threatened to return to the days when an accused...
Tags: Laws, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Annapolis, Witnesses
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Failed Justice Argues Against Death Penalty
From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from Mathew Brady's 1862...Tags: AIDS, New York City, Lawyers, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Murder trial shifts to woman's body found in Elkridge backyard
When Howard County authorities said they found the badly decomposed remains of Christine Jarrett beneath a shed in her own backyard, they moved swiftly to charge her husband — long a suspect — with the murder. That discovery — two...
Tags: Science and Technology, Howard County, Identification Technology, Biotechnology Industry, Prosecution
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Justice vs. vengeance in Aurora
Prosecutors have rebuffed an offer by James E. Holmes, the accused killer of 12 people in a movie theater rampage in Aurora, Colo., last year, to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison. In deciding instead to seek the death penalty, the...
Tags: Punishment, Prisons, Psychiatrists, Prosecution, Mental Illness
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Lavender and Gaines murder ruling reversed, new trial on the horizon
Staff WriterLocal prosecutors do not yet know when cousins Floyd Lavender III and Michael Gaines will get their retrial in a 2003 cold case that resulted in the death of teenager Courtney Bowser, but that day is coming. “A young girl was murdered and someone...Tags: Murder, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Lawyers, Justice System
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Loophole may cause release of 86-year-old murder suspect
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge is expected Wednesday morning to decide whether an 86-year-old murder defendant should be released from custody and into the care of his son. Nattie Kennebrew, who is legally blind, in a wheelchair and suffers from...
Tags: Blindness, Judges, Murder, Alzheimer's Disease, Shootings
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Privatization fears, finger-pointing marked troubled home-confinement program
The criminal allegations against Nolan Bernard could put him in prison for life. But on Monday, it was his tenuous link to Orange County's home-confinement program — through its most damning failure, the case of Bessman Okafor — that he was...
Tags: Police Arrests, Privatization, Prisons, Prosecution, Bright House Networks
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Orange corrections chief steps aside after home-confinement failure
The head of Orange County's corrections department and one of his chief deputies are out following two scathing internal reports released Thursday that found little oversight within the agency's embattled home-confinement program. Orange County Mayor...
Tags: Science and Technology, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Teresa Jacobs, Apopka
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Accused witness killer Bessman Okafor moved to Seminole jail
The suspect in the killing of a home-invasion witness — whose case sparked scandal in the Orange County Corrections Department — was recently transferred to the Seminole County jail. Orange County spokesman Steve Triggs said "no incident...
Tags: Teresa Jacobs, Prisons, Witnesses, The Seminole Tribe, Prosecution
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