Grand jury judge urges Penn St. case to go forward
BY: Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — The supervising judge for the grand jury that investigated how former Penn State administrators handled the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal said in a new court filing that the criminal case against them needs to move forward. Judge Barry Feudale made the comment in an order released Tuesday in the case against [...] |
Secrecy shrouds pretrial hearing in WikiLeaks case
BY: Associated Press FORT MEADE — Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website. A military judge, Col. Denise Lind, has ordered what prosecutors say is an unprecedented closed hearing Wednesday at Fort Meade to help her [...] |
Groups seeking to halt execution in Mississippi
BY: Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — Two organizations that help exonerate inmates using DNA evidence have asked the state Supreme Court to let them file briefs to support Willie Jerome Manning’s effort to avoid execution on May 7. Attorneys for Manning asked the court Tuesday to stop the execution. They also said they will file a clemency petition [...] |
George Zimmerman won’t seek immunity hearing
BY: Associated Press  SANFORD, Florida — The former neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting a Florida teenager told a judge Tuesday that he agrees with his defense attorneys’ decision not to seek an immunity hearing under the state’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law. Under questioning from Circuit Judge Debra Nelson, George Zimmerman repeatedly said “yes” to a [...] |
Parental rights’ case dismissed; chief judge objects
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Top court confirms conviction, 6 years after hearing
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Military court punts Manning documents case
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — The U.S. military’s highest court ruled Wednesday it isn’t the right place for a dispute over public access to documents in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning. The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights had sued seeking access to documents in the ongoing case. The center was seeking timely access to transcripts, motions, [...] |
Justices seem troubled by use of pre-Miranda silence
BY: Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared to worry Wednesday about letting a prosecutor use pre-Miranda silence against a suspect in court, with some justices calling the idea of a jury considering a person’s refusal to answer incriminating questions “scary,” ‘‘radical” and “troublesome.” “It’s a little scary to me that an unanswered question is evidence of [...] |
Waterkeeper, Perdue dispute standard for fees under the Clean Water Act
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Man convicted of 1981 murders wants new trial
BY: Associated Press FREDERICK — A man serving two life sentences for killing a man and a woman in Harford County in 1981 is asking for a new trial. Lawyers for John Norman Huffington will be in court Wednesday in Frederick County. They say types of evidence used to convict Huffington, including microscopic hair analysis, have now been [...] |
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