AP - A request from O.J. Simpson’s last remaining co-defendant to delay the Sept. 8 start of the pair’s armed robbery and kidnapping trial was rejected Thursday by a divided Nevada Supreme Court panel.
Defense attorneys filed 95 letters in court Wednesday night as part of a bid to get Abramoff out of prison early. They describe him as a humbled, changed man whose family is suffering.
AP - Looking upbeat and waving confidently to his family in a Tampa federal courtroom, John A. “Junior” Gotti entered a not guilty plea to federal racketeering charges that link him to three mob slayings, cocaine distribution and other crimes.
John A. “Junior” Gotti entered a not guilty plea Thursday to federal racketeering charges that link him to three mob slayings, cocaine distribution and other crimes.
AP - An accountant who worked for a trash hauler at the center of a sweeping federal investigation of mob influence in the industry pleaded guilty Thursday to participating in price fixing for hauling services in Connecticut and New York.
Reuters - A former U.S. Marine sergeant
accused of killing four unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted
on Thursday of all criminal charges in the case, including
voluntary manslaughter.
AP - A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial.
AP - Lawyers for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a lawsuit Thursday aimed at scuttling a hearing that could lead to his ouster, saying the proceedings would be unfair and presided over by a governor who is biased against him.
Reuters - Rap star DMX pleaded guilty to trying to
buy cocaine and marijuana in Miami and was awaiting extradition
to Arizona on outstanding drug charges there, his lawyer said
on Thursday.
AFP - A hearing in which attorneys for convicted murderer Charles Dean Hood will raise conflict of interest concerns involving the judge that sentenced him to die has been scheduled for two days after Hood is to be executed, one of his attorneys said Thursday.
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