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WikiLeaks Suspect to Be Housed With Other Inmates
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- WikiLeaks suspect Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has passed the lengthy the physical and psychiatric evaluation given to new inmates at the Kansas military prison where he was recently moved and will begin living with other medium-security inmates who are also awaiting trial, the prison commander said Thursday. AP Army Pfc. Bradley Manning will begin living with other medium-security inmates at Fort Leavenworth, a prison official said. The new detention conditions represent a marked change for Manning, who was transferred to Fort Leavenworth last week from the ...
Army Opens Prison of Suspected WikiLeaks Private for Media Review
By not in system - AOL NewsFORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- Army officials are opening the doors to the military prison in Kansas where they are holding an Army private suspected of illegally passing U.S. government secrets to the WikiLeaks website. Pfc. Bradley Manning was moved last week from the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth amid criticism over his treatment and confinement. Army spokesman Col. Tom Collins said the media tour of the military's medium-security prison at Fort Leavenworth would show the conditions under which the Army holds Manning as he ...
Jury Acquits Man of Stealing 99-Cent Hot Dog
By not in system - AOL NewsCHENEY, Wash. - A man has been cleared of a theft charge after a bemused jury in Washington state found him not guilty of stealing a 99-cent hot dog. John Richardson got the sausage from the self-serve counter of a Cheney, Wash., grocery store in December. He ate it while he shopped but forgot to include it when he paid for his groceries. Store managers confronted Richardson and called police. It took jurors about five minutes to reach their verdict in the February trial. Juror Patrick Reeves tells The Spokesman-Review someone would "have to be an idiot" not to realize Richardson simply ...
New York Allows Same-Sex Conjugal Visits in State Prisons
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsNew York inmates who are in same-sex marriages or civil unions are being allowed conjugal visits with their spouses or partners. The state officially announced the change in policy last week, making New York one of the few states to grant the private visits for gay and lesbian inmates in legally recognized same-sex partnerships. Although the policy will directly affect a relatively small number of people, advocates for same-sex marriage say it's an important step toward full equality for gay and lesbian couples. "This is a recognition of same-sex couples as families," Molly McKay of Marriage ...
Supreme Court Rejects Quick Review of Health Care Law
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court rejected a call Monday from Virginia's attorney general to depart from its usual practice and put review of the health care law on a fast track. Instead, judicial review of President Barack Obama's signature legislation will continue in federal appeals courts. The justices turned down a request by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a leading opponent of the law, to resolve questions about its constitutionality quickly. The Obama administration opposed Cuccinelli's plea. Only rarely, in wartime or a constitutional crisis, does the court step into a legal ...
Texas May Strip Away Transgender Marriage Rights
By not in system - AOL NewsAUSTIN, Texas -- Two years after Texas become one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock. Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar transgendered people from getting married smacks of discrimination and would put their legally-granted marriages in danger of being nullified if challenged in court. One of the Republican sponsors of the legislation said he's simply trying to clean up the 2009 law in a state that bans same-sex marriage under the ...
32 More Corpses Found in Mexico Pits, Total at 177
By not in system - AOL NewsMEXICO CITY -- Mexican authorities say another 32 bodies have been exhumed from clandestine graves in the northeastern border state of Tamaulipas, bringing the total to 177 this month. Tamaulipas prosecutors say in a statement that the latest bodies were found in eight pits discovered during the past week. Authorities began exhuming corpses early this month in the town of San Fernando after reports that people were being kidnapped from passenger buses in the area. It is the same region where authorities say the Zetas drug gang killed and buried 72 Central American migrants in August. The ...
Appeals Court Resurrects Blackwater Prosecution
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- An appeals court is resurrecting the case against four Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a 2007 shooting in a Baghdad public square that killed 17 Iraqi citizens. A federal trial judge in Washington, Ricardo Urbina, threw out the case on New Year's Eve 2009 after he found the Justice Department mishandled evidence and violated the guards' constitutional rights. But a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Urbina wrongly interpreted the law. It ordered that he reconsider whether there was any tainted evidence against four of the five defendants - ...
Montana Judge Rejects Gay Couple Rights Suit
By not in system - AOL NewsHELENA, Mont. -- A Montana judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit that sought to extend to gay couples the same legal protections as married couples, saying in his decision that he can't grant the benefits partly because of the state's voter-approved constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit on behalf of the gay couples, arguing that the guarantees in the Montana Constitution of equal protection, privacy and dignity should require the state to afford the legal rights to the gay couples. The ACLU said it ...
Autopsy Images of Michael Jackson Allowed at Trial
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Images of Michael Jackson in life and death will be shown to jurors at his doctor's trial, a judge ruled Thursday, after a prosecutor promised restraint while using autopsy photos that might upset the singer's family. Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor also said he will allow prosecutors to screen segments of the concert movie "This Is It" for jurors in highly redacted form to show the pop star's mental and physical state in the days before his death. "I don't think this should be entertainment," the judge said. "We should not feel deprived of our 99-cent iTunes if we don't ...
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