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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
DNA test frees Ohio man after 18 years in jail
National |
August 12, 2008
A judge freed a man Monday who had spent nearly 18 years in prison on a charge of raping a 10-year-old girl after a lab reexamining cases across Ohio showed that his DNA profile didn’t match evidence from the crime scene. Read more
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
FBI to reveal evidence in anthrax case
National |
August 6, 2008
After nearly seven years of investigating, FBI officials plan to present evidence today to the surviving victims of the 2001 anthrax attacks that they believe proves a Maryland scientist launched the deadly mailings that gripped the nation in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. Read more
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Scientist: DNA led agents to anthrax suspect
National |
August 3, 2008
Federal investigators cinched their case against alleged anthrax mailer Bruce E. Ivins after sophisticated genetic tests by a California firm helped them trace a signature mixture of anthrax spores, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Read more
Friday, July 25, 2008
Hamdan case is built on his own words
National |
July 25, 2008
In the custody of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Salim Ahmed Hamdan drew maps to Al Qaeda training camps and compounds for his captors. Read more
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Evidence on terror suspect barred
National |
July 22, 2008
The military judge overseeing the first war crimes trial against a terrorism suspect at Guantanamo Bay agreed Monday to bar some evidence against Osama bin Laden’s former driver because it was obtained in “highly coercive environments and conditions.” Read more
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Carona’s lawyers seek diaries
California | Local |
July 17, 2008
Attorneys defending former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona in a corruption case are seeking access to three volumes of diaries apparently written by Carona’s chief assistant sheriff, longtime confidant George Jaramillo. Read more
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Carona’s attorneys target talk of affair
California | Local |
July 8, 2008
Attorneys for indicted former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona asked a federal judge Monday to prohibit a former secretary from testifying that Carona asked her to lie to investigators about their lengthy sexual affair. Read more
Friday, May 9, 2008
Court weighs fairness of ‘cold hit’ DNA
California | Local |
May 9, 2008
Several justices of the California Supreme Court suggested Thursday that a defendant’s right to a fair trial is not violated when he is charged with a crime that occurred decades earlier based on new DNA evidence. Read more
Thursday, March 27, 2008
O.C. to unseal grand jury materials by April 7
California | Local |
March 27, 2008
Transcripts from a grand jury investigation into the beating death of a jail inmate are scheduled to be unsealed no later than April 7 under the orders of an Orange County judge who found the Sheriff’s Department had no legal standing to block their release. Read more
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Evidence rule to be reviewed
National |
February 20, 2008
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to reconsider the reach of the “exclusionary rule,” a doctrine that has been controversial since the 1960s because it requires judges to throw out evidence if it was obtained improperly by the police. Read more
Monday, February 4, 2008
Pellicano is sued over recordings
California | Local |
February 4, 2008
In March 2002, a former Cook County police officer and his wife were convicted of bilking the government by submitting billings for security work that was never performed at one of the nation’s most dangerous housing projects, the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago. Read more
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Carona’s lawyers want tapes barred
California | Local |
January 26, 2008
Stepping up their defense of former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, attorneys on Friday asked a federal judge to exclude as evidence secret recordings of conversations between a top aide and Carona in the weeks before he was indicted on corruption charges. Read more
Saturday, January 12, 2008
U.S. troops as police investigators in Iraq
World |
January 12, 2008
A stocky man in a dusty dishdasha and red-checked scarf squatted under a tree as U.S. soldiers dug up his yard looking for weapons or other incriminating evidence. Read more
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Gun found in field may free inmate
California | Local |
January 8, 2008
A rusted old gun found last month in a Modesto field has been identified as the same kind of weapon a hit man alleged he used to kill a man 19 years ago. Read more
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Bail is set for CHP officer in drug case
California | Local |
December 27, 2007
The Orange County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that
California Highway Patrol Officer Joshua Blackburn could spend more
than 25 years in state prison if he is convicted of stealing more
than 40 kilograms of cocaine valued at $1 million. Read more
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Pellicano judge rejects defense motions
California | Local |
December 22, 2007
In a setback for the defense, a federal judge Friday rejected a
string of allegations by indicted private eye Anthony Pellicano and
his co-defendants that the government’s wiretapping and racketeering
investigation was replete with misconduct. Read more
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
White House must answer questions over CIA tapes
National |
December 19, 2007
Over the objections of the Justice Department, a federal judge
said Tuesday he would explore whether the U.S. had violated a court
order to preserve evidence when the CIA destroyed videotaped
interrogations of two terrorism suspects in 2005. Read more
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Gun can clear client on death row, lawyer says
California | Local |
December 18, 2007
Defense lawyer Scott Kauffman had just about given up. Read more
Friday, November 30, 2007
LAPD far short of funds for DNA tests
California | Local |
November 30, 2007
The Los Angeles Police Department would need $9.3 million to clear
up a backlog of untested DNA evidence that could hold the key to
solving hundreds of sexual assaults and other violent crimes, but
state and local money is falling far short of covering the cost,
officials say. Read more
Thursday, November 29, 2007
New trial is sought in arsenic case
California | Local |
November 29, 2007
In January a jury convicted Cynthia Sommer of poisoning her Marine
sergeant husband by slipping him a fatal dose of arsenic. Read more
