February 2, 2014 Comments Off on Mass. fights decision to pay for inmate’s sex change
Massachusetts prison officials on Friday said they will appeal a decision that would force them to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for an inmate serving a life sentence for murder.
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Read More »January 15, 2014 Comments Off on Probation ordered for fatal crash while texting
WESTMINSTER — A Westminster woman must do 100 hours of community service for a fatal collision while texting behind the wheel. Nineteen-year-old Kendyl Puckett was sentenced Tuesday after a bench trial in Carroll County Circuit Court. Her convictions were first ...
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Read More »January 10, 2014 Comments Off on 4 more plead guilty in Md. prison abuse case
Four former state prison workers are admitting involvement in the 2008 beating of an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution near Hagerstown. Michael Morgan pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to violating Kenneth Davis’ civil rights. Edwin Stigile, ...
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Read More »January 8, 2014 Comments Off on Shooter of 2 at Md. tavern gets life sentence
WESTMINSTER — A Westminster man is contesting his life sentence for fatally shooting a man and wounding another outside an Eldersburg tavern. The Carroll County Times reports that 25-year-old Jacob Bircher was sentenced Tuesday for the first-degree murder of David ...
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Read More »January 2, 2014 Comments Off on Feds seek long sentence in ‘Jihad Jane’ case
PHILADELPHIA — Federal prosecutors are asking for a lengthy prison sentence for a Pennsylvania woman who called herself “Jihad Jane” online. Prosecutors say in court papers that Colleen LaRose should spend decades behind bars for plotting to kill a Swedish ...
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Read More »December 4, 2013 Comments Off on Navy contractor gets 3 years in kickback scheme
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The founder of a U.S. Navy contractor from Georgia must serve three years in prison for his part in a kickback scheme that cost the Navy $18 million, a federal judge in Rhode Island ordered Wednesday. Anjan ...
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Read More »December 2, 2013 Comments Off on N.H. hospital worker gets 39 years in hepatitis case
CONCORD, N.H. — A traveling medical technician was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for stealing painkillers and infecting dozens of patients in four states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes. David Kwiatkowski, 34, was a cardiac technologist in ...
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Read More »November 11, 2013 Comments Off on Judge’s instruction to holdout juror is criticized
A judge’s instruction to a holdout juror that he listen to his fellow jurors and consider the evidence very carefully denied the defendant a fair trial, a Maryland appeals court has said in overturning an armed robbery conviction and 40-year prison sentence.
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Read More »November 7, 2013 Comments Off on New trial ordered for death-row inmate in Florida
November 7, 2013 Comments Off on Maryland Historical Society thief leaves prison
A man who stole documents from the Maryland Historical Society and other archives nationwide has been released from prison where he spent the last year. A lawyer for Jason Savedoff confirmed he was released Thursday. Savedoff pleaded guilty to helping ...
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