KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Oklahoma man who was convicted of killing and beheading his then-girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter and dumping her body in the woods was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Before being ...
21 Nov 2008
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Oklahoma man who was convicted of killing and beheading his then-girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter and dumping her body in the woods was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Before being ...
21 Nov 2008
Rose Kabuye Thursday morning overcame the first hurdle in her battle with the French judiciary when she was given a conditional release at her first appearance before the Palais de Justice in Paris. Kabuye was released after more than ten hours ...
21 Nov 2008
There are some good things to be said about "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas," key among them that a film would be produced with the thought in mind that it is never too early to teach children about the events of the Holocaust. But this beautifully ...
21 Nov 2008
Before being sentenced, Harrell Johnson decried the justice system and continued to proclaim his innocence in the 2001 slaying of little Erica Green, the daughter of his then-girlfriend. "Never once have I harmed a hair on her head or did anything to ...
21 Nov 2008
CHEYENNE - Two Cheyenne men accused of shooting windows of more than 100 vehicles around the city in recent weeks face felony charges. Nathan D. Connin and Jared W. Barker on Wednesday waived their right to have a circuit court judge determine ...
21 Nov 2008
A Rwandan presidential aide has been protesting her innocence after a court in France placed her under investigation over a political killing. Supporters of Rose Kabuye celebrated as she was conditionally released.
20 Nov 2008
The man convicted of killing and beheading a 3-year-old girl, known only as "Precious Doe" for years, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole. Before being sentenced, Harrell Johnson decried the justice system and continued to proclaim his innocence in the 2001 slaying of Erica Green, the daughter of his then-girlfriend. "Never once have I harmed a hair on her head or did ...
20 Nov 2008
A silent witness contributed to the conviction and life sentence Thursday of a Fostoria man charged with raping a five-year-old girl. After a four-day jury trial in Seneca County Common Pleas Court, Paul N. Stacey continues to maintain his innocence. "I'm falsely accused," Stacey said while being lead out of the courtroom in handcuffs.
20 Nov 2008
The presumption of innocence might be the foundation of American jurisprudence. But you're guilty until proved innocent in today's Kansas Republican Party.
20 Nov 2008
Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Troy Anthony Davis, whose claims of innocence had delayed the lethal injection he was to undergo for killing a Georgia police officer. But three days before the execution, an 11th Circuit panel ordered a stay, and on Wednesday ordered lawyers for Davis and for the state to present oral argument Dec. 9. The panel has raised questions ...
20 Nov 2008
Still proclaiming his innocence after more than three decades in prison, Ronnie Wallace Long got another day in court in Concord today, asking through his attorneys for his conviction to be set aside and to get a new trial. Long was convicted in 1976 by an all-white jury of raping one of the most prominent women in town, the widow of a Cannon Mills Executive who lived among the stately ...
20 Nov 2008
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
20 Nov 2008
ER - The Final Season -- "Age of Innocence" -- 11/20/08 TV Talk.
20 Nov 2008
Postcards from the Age of Innocence. A question to ponder: If, like the scientists who recently figured out how to bring wooly mammoths back from extinction, we could manufacture a product line that embodied all the qualities we loved ...
20 Nov 2008
Buy AUGURIES OF INNOCENCE for $586.00 on Etsy. "To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.Every night and every morn Some to misery are born, ...
20 Nov 2008
Michael Naughton questions whether the appointment of Richard Foster as the new chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) can be justified, and whether we need a Innocence Act which will enable cases to be redecided in the ...
20 Nov 2008
Songs of Innocence and Experience. From today's New York Times:. A lawyer for Michael Jackson said that the pop star might be too sick to travel to London to testify in a suit filed against him by a Bahrainian prince. ...
19 Nov 2008