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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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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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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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June 27th, 2011  03:28 PM ET A jury in the corruption case against Rod Blagojevich found the former governor of Illinois guilty of 17 of the 20 counts against him. The 54-year-old former politician was found guilty on 10 charges related to wire fraud, and other charges of extortion, extortion conspiracy, solicitation of a bribe, [...]

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25 March 2011   18:36 ET A US beauty contest winner who claimed she was stripped of her crown because she had gained weight has won her courtroom fight to regain the title. Seventeen-year-old Domonique Ramirez claimed pageant officials in Texas had told her to “get off the tacos”. Organisers of the Miss San Antonio contest [...]

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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 14:48:00 On July 16, 2009, former reporter and  political secretary to state exco member and Seri Kembangan assemblyman Ean Yong Hian Wah, Teoh Beng Hock was found dead on the fifth floor of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office in Shah Alam. He had been subjected to a marathon questioning session [...]

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