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Man Pleads Not Guilty in Jaycee Dugard Kidnapping Case
By not in system - AOL NewsPLACERVILLE, Calif. - An expected guilty plea by a convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping and raping a girl when she was 11 and holding her captive for 18 years was derailed Thursday when his lawyer alleged a grand jury was improperly selected and acted inappropriately. Public defender Susan Gellman, who represents defendant Phillip Garrido, made the claim during a brief hearing where Garrido and his wife and co-defendant Nancy Garrido entered not guilty pleas to kidnapping, rape and other charges contained in an amended indictment. Gellman did not elaborate on her claim ...
Huge Insider Trading Case Features Multibillion-Dollar Deals, Wiretaps
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The largest insider trading case to hit the U.S. in decades has all the elements of a highly charged courtroom drama involving powerful players on Wall Street, their secretly recorded phone conversations and deals worth billions of dollars. Federal prosecutors charge that Raj Rajaratnam made $45 million from trading on insider tips he received from friends working in the world's top business and financial circles. He faces 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud and denies wrongdoing. Rajaratnam, the 53-year-old founder of the Galleon Group hedge fund, has sat in court from ...
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Catalina Yacht Murder Case Goes to Trial 5 Years Later
By Tori Richards - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- The waterway between Southern California and the tourist spot of Catalina Island is normally populated by pleasure craft, fishing boats and sea lions. But something else altogether popped up one spring day five years ago in the pristine 26-mile channel made famous in song and film. On May 18, 2006, a cargo ship captain noticed a body clothed in a green jogging suit floating face down with the lower back extended out of the water. Seagulls were perched on top, feeding as if an unlimited banquet had arrived. When the body was hauled out of the water, it was so waterlogged that ...
As War Crimes Trial Nears End, Many Liberians Hope for President's Return
By Emily Schmall - AOL NewsMONROVIA, Liberia -- With President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial in The Hague nearing an end after three years, many Liberians hope he will be brought home -- to a hero's welcome. Take Fasu Donzo, a lanky motorbike taxi driver. Now 31, he fought as a child soldier in Taylor's army and was known as General Mosquito "because I bite." "I'm just praying that Charles Taylor will go free so that he can come back to do his normal business," Donzo told AOL News. "He's a leader, a strong man. We miss him and we expect him back." Donzo was among many Liberians to express their support for the ...
Greece Begins Trial of Terror Suspects Under Heavy Security
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- Amid heavy security, Greece today began trying 13 alleged members of a militant anarchist group linked to a spree of attacks, including a letter bomb campaign that spilled into neighboring European states last year. Hundreds of policemen stood watch at the courtroom within a maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Athens to guard against anticipated anarchist reprisals. The accused -- 12 men and one woman -- allegedly belong to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a mob of militant anti-capitalists that authorities say they have cracked but have not yet crushed after ...
Jury Weighs Death Penalty in Home Invasion Murder Trial
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 5) -- A Connecticut jury has begun deliberations in the triple murder trial of Steven Hayes and will soon decide whether the man convicted of killing a Connecticut woman and her two daughters in a brutal 2007 home invasion should be put to death. Prosecutors have called for the death penalty in the emotional, high-profile trial, but defense lawyers mounted an unusual plea for Hayes' life Thursday, telling the jury that life behind bars would be a fate worse than death for the 47-year-old, who has reportedly already tried to commit suicide in prison. Connecticut Department of Correction ...
Levy Murder Trial Starts With Opening Statements
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(Oct. 25) -- A woman who was attacked by the same man accused of murdering Washington intern Chandra Levy said she screamed as loud as she could and fought to escape her "creepy" assailant. Halle Shilling described the terrifying run-in with Ingmar Guandique in court today as prosecutors tried to prove that the attack is consistent with the way way Levy was killed in 2001. Shilling said she was jogging in Washington D.C.'s Rock Creek Park in 2001 when she first noticed Guandique watching her. "He was creepy," Shilling said this afternoon, according to The Washington Post. "He was watching ...
Diary of Co-Defendant Grabs Spotlight in Conn. Murder Trial
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- The Connecticut home invasion and murder trial got still darker this week, as defense attorneys for convicted murderer Steven Hayes read aloud from the diary of the other accused killer in an attempt to prove that he and not Hayes was the mastermind behind the brutal 2007 crime. "The awakening of my shaddow [sic], repressed within, reaching its zenith that morning with the rapturous control of Michaela," accused killer and rapist Joshua Komisarjevsky wrote of the murders in his journal while in prison, according to the New York Post. Connecticut State Police / AP Murder suspect ...
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