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Prosecutor: No Grand Jury for Trayvon Shooting

Kevin Spak — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:15:04 CDT

Special prosecutor Angela Corey has announced that she will not be handing the Trayvon Martin case over to a grand jury, and will instead decide whether to charge George Zimmerman unilaterally. A grand jury had been set to convene tomorrow, on the orders of Corey's predecessor, CNN explains. But today...

Marcia Clark: Casey Anthony Verdict Crazier Than OJ's

Kevin Spak — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:36:01 CDT

When she heard the Casey Anthony verdict, Marcia Clark flashed back to how she felt when OJ Simpson was acquitted. “But this case was different. The verdict was far more shocking,” the ex-prosecutor in the Simpson case writes in the Daily Beast . Casey wasn’t a beloved celebrity, nor was there...

Paris Hilton Drug Prosecutor Nabbed for Crack

Matt Cantor — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:08:05 CDT

A top Las Vegas drug prosecutor is getting a view from the other side: He's been arrested for allegedly buying crack cocaine, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. David Schubert, who has prosecuted the likes of Paris Hilton and Bruno Mars, was spotted buying the drug from a street dealer on...

Cops Dismiss New Natalee Holloway Confession

Harry Kimball — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:20:16 CST

The young Dutchman who has been arrested twice in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005 is on tape confessing to dumping her body—but the prosecutor doesn’t believe him. Joran van der Sloot’s claim that he disposed of her body “in a swamp...

Knox Acted Out of 'Hatred': Prosecutor

Nick McMaster — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:57:39 CST

Italian prosecutors pulled out all the stops in closing arguments at the Amanda Knox murder trial, telling the court that the American exchange student killed Meredith Kercher in "an unstoppable crescendo of violence." The chief prosecutor restated his argument that Knox murdered her roommate out of spite because Kercher disapproved...

Prosecutor: I Lied in Polanksi Film About Misconduct

Rob Quinn — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:47:36 CDT

A retired Los Angeles County prosecutor who told the creators of a documentary that he coached a judge on how to send Roman Polanski to prison despite a plea bargain now says he lied. David Wells—whose claims in Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired sparked accusations of misconduct and were...

Iran: Protesters Were Tortured

Nick McMaster — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:00:00 CDT

The Iranian prosecutor general admitted today that protesters arrested in the wake of the disputed presidential election were tortured, the New York Times reports. The comments by Qorbanali Dori-Najafabadi were the first official acknowledgments of torture made by an Iranian government official. Dori-Najafabadi blamed what he called a few “painful...

Sotomayor's Inspiration? Perry Mason

Harry Kimball — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:56:00 CDT

Sonia Sotomayor’s zeal for the law comes from the tube, the Los Angeles Times reports. The former prosecutor credits for her conversion a Perry Mason episode where the titular defense attorney “proved his client innocent and got the actual murderer to confess,” the Supreme Court nominee told senators today. “Perry...

Judge Throws Out Sentence in MySpace Suicide Case

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:57:11 CDT

A Los Angeles federal judge has tentatively thrown out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. US District Judge George Wu acquitted Lori Drew of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. Wu...