By TOM HAYS and DAVID B. CARUSO Associated Press Writers
NEW YORK (AP) _ Hundreds of demonstrators led by the Rev. Al Sharpton clogged intersections and snarled traffic across the city to protest the acquittal of three officers involved in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on his wedding day.
Protesters said Wednesday’s ”pray-in,” which [...]
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Protesters who snarled traffic arrested in New York City
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Criminal Law · Federal · General
China’s family planning rules at issue in US asylum cases
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States.
The Bush administration is resisting the male partners’ efforts to get asylum, even though the Republican congressman who wrote a 1996 asylum [...]
Tags: Federal · General · Immigration Law
15 Philly officers taken off street after videotaped beating
May 7th, 2008 · No Comments
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Fifteen Philadelphia police officers have been taken off the street as authorities investigate a video showing three suspects being kicked and beaten by city police.
A spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter says the mayor stands behind the police department but his first glance of the video does appear to show the officers overstepping [...]
Tags: Criminal Law · Federal · General · Litigation · Personal Injury
Ex-N.H. candidate convicted for fake disappearance arrested
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
By DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI Associated Press Writer
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ A former congressional candidate convicted of faking his disappearance after a car crash two years ago was arrested Tuesday on a warrant for violating his bail conditions.
A prosecutor said he asked that bail be revoked after Gary Dodds’ wife reported to police that the two had [...]
Tags: Criminal Law · Federal · General
Judge plans to let half of bay spill crew return to China
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ A judge plans to allow three of six Chinese crew members who have been held in the United States since their ship spilled 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay to return home in the next few weeks.
The captain, however, and two other crew members [...]
Tags: Criminal Law · Federal · General · Litigation
Both sides rest at Rezko trial, no defense witnesses called, 1st Ld-Writethru
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
By MIKE ROBINSON Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) _ Less than two hours after prosecutors rested their case Monday in political fundraiser Antoin ”Tony” Rezko’s marathon fraud trial, defense attorneys did the same without calling a single witness.
It is not unusual for the defense portion of a major criminal trial to be fairly short, though attorneys [...]
Tags: Criminal Law · Federal · General
Ga. board denied killer’s clemency bid
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
By SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) _ Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a condemned killer who shot his live-in girlfriend is likely to become the first inmate put to death since a U.S. Supreme Court review halted executions last September.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday denied William Earl Lynd’s [...]
Tags: Criminal Law · Federal · General
Are You a Victim of Identity Theft?
May 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
We’ve all seen those clever Capital One credit card commercials showing one person, but hearing another person’s voice, illustrating identity theft and fraud. Has someone used your personal information to open credit cards accounts and not pay the bill? The FTC estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year.
If [...]
Tags: Federal · Lead Counsel · Lead Counsel Corner · Lead Counsel News · Privacy
Jury deadlocks over alleged fraud
May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) _ A federal judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a former government-contractor employee accused of taking a $1 million kickback in an alleged conspiracy with a Kuwaiti businessman to defraud the U.S. military.
Jurors said they were deadlocked after three days of deliberations and could not reach a unanimous [...]
Tags: Business Law · Criminal Law · Federal · General
Utah man feds say kept mum about ricin pleads not guilty
April 30th, 2008 · No Comments
By PAUL FOY Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ A man accused of failing to report that his cousin was making ricin said he knew the deadly toxin was being produced in his basement but didn’t call authorities because he didn’t want anyone to find the weapons and explosive devices stored there, according to [...]
Tags: Criminal Law · Federal · General

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