Criminal Justice

Suicide Pact

"Attorney General Eric Holder Announces Terror Trials in New York City for 9-11-01 Plotters." All three of these actions -- the Gates outburst; the Holder decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9-11-01...

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Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's the same in many ways

R ick Hillier, one of the powerful figures at the epicentre of the prisoner torture storm, has a revealing quirk. Question what happened in Afghanistan under his command and the former chief of defence staff talks about what...

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Inmate killed in Colorado prison; second inmate arrested

CANON CITY, Colo.—An inmate serving time for kidnapping and sexual assault convictions has been killed at a Colorado prison in Canon City. Authorities say 50-year-old Ronald Ferguson died Wednesday. They haven't said how he was...

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NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare

A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death. The Associated Press A man will spend the rest of his...

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Family talks of its life after Cassidy's death - Philadelphia Inquirer

MyFox Philadelphia Family talks of its life after Cassidy's death Philadelphia Inquirer On a mournful day of testimony that regularly brought men and women, jurors, veteran police officers, and prosecutors to tears, Officer...

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Man gets 85 years in informant's slaying

URBANA – Should he ever be released from prison for killing a police informant and trying to kill a second man, Granville Johnson will be a very old man. Champaign County Judge John Kennedy on Friday sentenced Johnson, 29, of...

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Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe

Lithuania is currently embroiled in a bizarre and deeply confusing political controversy which reveals what happens when a country becomes gripped by extremist ideologies. Evidence has emerged that Lithuanian intelligence...

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Burglary nets 25-year prison term

URBANA – A Momence man with a long history of burglary has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his latest break-in. Champaign County Judge Tom Difanis imposed the sentence Friday on Shawn Moody, 37.

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County probation program under fire

Hamilton County's intensive probation program is so ineffective that the convicts in it are more likely to commit crimes than others convicted of similar crimes who never receive supervision, according to the Ohio Department of...

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Pa. Eyes Minn., Other States For Prison Space

None of the six states under consideration -- (File) Early next year, for the first time in its history, Pennsylvania plans to contract with another state or states to board as many as 2,000 convicted criminals. The reason is...

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