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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 | By Josh Meyer | 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 | By Ap | 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 | By Carol J. Williams | 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 | By Carol J. Williams | 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 | By Christine Hanley | 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 | By Stuart Pfeifer | 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 | By Maura Dolan | 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 | By Christine Hanley | 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 | By Garrett Therolf | 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 | By Greg Krikorian | 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 | By Richard B. Schmitt and Johanna Neuman | 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 | By Maura Dolan | 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 | By Patrick Mcgreevy and Richard Winton | 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 | By Tony Perry | 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
 
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