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November 7, 2011       11:38 am The verdict in the trial of Michael Jackson’s personal physician will be read at 1 p.m. Just before 11 a.m., a buzzer in Judge Michael Pastor’s courtroom rang three times — the sign jurors are to send when they have agreed on a verdict. Court staff cleared reporters and Jackson [...]

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Nov 1, 2011       8:24 AM MT Dustin Paxton’s alleged torture victim told a Calgary courtroom Tuesday he performed sex acts on Paxton because he would have done anything to get the beatings to stop. Testifying for a second day against his former friend and roommate, the man said the oral sex and masturbation would happen [...]

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:42 AM After being sealed for months, the names of the 12 jurors who acquitted Casey Anthony of murder have been released. The Pinellas County Courthouse released the names Tuesday morning, nearly three months after Chief Judge Belvin Perry ordered the jurors’ identities sealed for longer than usual, because of their [...]

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12:51 p.m., Monday, October 3, 2011 Amanda Knox has been acquitted. After nearly four years behind bars, an Italian jury has overturned Knox’s conviction for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, setting the stage for her an emotional homecoming to Knox’s native Seattle. The courtroom erupted with cries of joy as the presiding judge [...]

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Monday, 09.12.11 Jury selection has started in the murder trial of a millionaire developer who is charged with fatally shooting his wife. Attorneys for Bob Ward and prosecutors started questioning jurors Monday about how much they knew about the case. Ward has pleaded not guilty and says the shooting was an accident. The 63-year-old Ward [...]

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August 20, 2011    6:39 a.m. Iranian authorities sentenced two Americans arrested and detained along the Iran-Iraq border to eight years in prison, state television cited an unnamed judicial source as saying on Saturday.The men, who have already been held in prison for more than two years in Iran, have 20 days to appeal their convictions [...]

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Aug. 17, 2011    4:14PM The dispute between a Kentucky man and a surgeon over the necessity of amputating the patient’s penis during surgery in 2008 is set to go to trial this week. The doctor maintains he found cancer in the man’s penis during surgery and that it had to be removed, according to the [...]

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August 11, 2011    5:34 pm Dr. Kevin Brown was a prominent South L.A. physician with an impressive international resume that included being the son of the former premier of Bermuda. He organized charity fundraisers at the Playboy Mansion attended by celebrities like Don Cheadle and Khloe Kardashian. Authorities, however, claim Brown was also a [...]

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Casey Anthony enters the courtroom and speaks to her attorney Dorothy Clay Sims for her sentencing on charges of lying to a law enforcement officer at the Orange County Courthouse Orlando, Fla. on Thursday, July 7, 2011. Thursday, July 07, 2011 11:34 AM BREAKING NEWS: Casey Anthony will be released from jail Sunday, July 17, [...]

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Tuesday July 5th, 2011 A former bikini salesman, high school dropout and deadbeat dad who barely  made it into the Florida bar pulled off what some are calling one of the most  stunning court victories in history. Jose Angel Baez, a 42-year-old lawyer who grew up in the Bronx and South  Florida, had been practicing [...]

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2:33 PM, Jun. 23, 2011 Dr. Earl B. Bradley was found guilty today of raping and abusing his child patients. The Lewes-area pediatrician was convicted on all 24 counts of rape, assault and sexual exploitation of a child.   The courtroom was quiet and subdued as Superior Court Judge William C. Carpenter Jr., who decided [...]

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3 June 2011 Last updated at 01:39 ET Former Bosnian army head Ratko Mladic is due to make his first appearance at The Hague war crimes tribunal. He was arrested last week in Serbia after 16 years on the run from charges of having committed atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. His lawyer and his [...]

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22 March 2011 Last updated at 04:30 ET Israel’s former President Moshe Katsav has been jailed for seven years for rape and other sex offences. He was convicted at an earlier hearing of raping an employee in the 1990s when he was tourism minister, and of later sexual offences while he was president. The rape [...]

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Self-help guru James Arthur Ray was arrested Wednesday in Arizona on manslaughter charges in the deaths of three people during a sweat lodge ceremony. Ray was being held on $5 million bond at a sheriff’s station in Prescott awaiting transfer to the Camp Verde Detention Center, according to a statement by Yavapai County Sheriff Steve [...]

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