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| | HOUSE BILL NO. 242 - Apellate/post-conviction, DNA test |
 | | hat the conviction or sentence is otherwise subject to collateral 34 attack upon any ground of alleged error heretofore available under any 35 common law, statutory or other writ, motion, petition, proceeding, or 36 remedy: may institute, without paying a filing fee, a proceeding under 37 this act to secure relief. | | | hat the conviction or sentence is otherwise subject to collateral 25 attack upon any ground of alleged error heretofore available under any 26 common law, statutory or other writ, motion, petition, proceeding, or 27 remedy: may institute, without paying a filing fee, a proceeding under 28 this act to secure relief. | | | Thereafter, the district 43 court shall hold an evidentiary hearing where, upon a showing by the peti- 2 1 tioner that he is innocent, the district court shall grant appropriate relief. |
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| | Post-Conviction DNA Motions |
| | Permits defendant convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death to petition court of conviction for fingerprint or forensic DNA analysis on evidence not tested at time of trial because technology not available or results not admissible. | | | Allows any person convicted of a crime to petition for DNA testing of evidence collected during the investigation of the crime for which he is sentenced. | | | Allows any person convicted of a criminal offense to motion for post-conviction DNA testing if evidence used at trial and susceptible to testing is available and was subject to a clear chain of custody. |
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http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/genetics/dnamotions.htm
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| | IDTFIII Report - Post Conviction Proceedings |
| | His office represents persons convicted in the state courts who bring federal petitions for habeas corpus relief, the final level of review for most state court convictions. | | | Constitutional violations not alleged by the state post conviction attorney often are deemed waived by federal courts. | | | One factor he points to as particularly troubling is that state post conviction cases are underfunded even more than trial level representation: unlike trial level representation, where cases are often negotiated by way of plea or other compromise resolution, virtually every post conviction case goes to trial. |
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| | During the appeal process, the convicted party often sits in prison for as much as a year before an appeal brief is prepared and filed and then, possibly another two years waiting for a decision from their Supreme Court. | | | Exposing the lie alone will not reverse a conviction, but it will be the cornerstone of everything necessary to petition the court for a reversal and, in most cases, that petition will be based on newly acquired evidence. | | | If the specific reason for the conviction was ineffective assistance of counsel, it is often difficult to get another attorney to even discuss the issue, even an attorney who was retained to prepare an appeal. |
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| | Wis.LIRC ER Decision: Mullikin - August 27, 1992 - Conviction record discrimination -- 'substantially related' -- ... |
| | The fact that an employer may choose to discriminate in the employment of individuals with conviction records the circumstances of which substantially relate to a particular job, is not a prohibited basis of discrimination made unlawful under the Act. | | | To be convicted of this felony, Complainant must have wilfully made false representations with the intent to secure public assistance where the value of the property exceeds $2,500. | | | Since the Commission finds that Complainant's argument in which he compares his conviction record with that of McDaniel's is fully dispositive of this case, there is no need to address his further argument. |
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| | Examination of DWI Conviction Rate Procedures |
| | Conviction rate is important as one measure of the performance of the adjudication subsystem of the Traffic Law System in a given jurisdiction. | | | For the purposes of conviction rate calculations, local authorities consider a DWAI conviction to be a conviction as charged for this category of case. | | | It follows that, in a given jurisdiction, the larger the number of arrested drivers who are convicted (either by pleading or by conviction in a trial court), the higher the performance of the adjudication subsystem as a whole. |
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| | "Conviction" Defined |
| | And in its most restricted sense it is a record of the summary proceedings upon any penal statute before one or more justices of the peace, or other persons duly authorized, in a case where the offender has been convicted and sentenced: this last is usually termed a summary conviction. | | | The name and style of the justice or justices to whom it was given. | | | In a more limited sense, it means the judgment given against the criminal. |
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| | For purposes of 14 CFR 61.15(c), alcohol-related convictions or administrative actions are referred to as motor vehicle actions (MVA). | | | Requirements for a notification letter are stated in 14 CFR 61.15(e). | | | At a later date if the airman receives an alcohol-related conviction, then a second notification letter is required. |
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| | POST-CONVICTION COLLATERAL PROCEEDINGS |
| | Except as provided in Rule 902(E)(2) for death penalty cases, no discovery is permitted at any stage of the proceedings, except upon leave of the court with a showing of exceptional circumstances. | | | This standard is met if the petitioner can demonstrate either: (1) that the proceedings resulting in the petitioner's conviction were so unfair that a miscarriage of justice occurred which no civilized society can tolerate; or (2) that the petitioner is innocent of the crimes charged. | | | Rather, the Chapter 9 Rules are intended to require that, in a single proceeding, the defendant must raise and the judge must dispose of all grounds for relief available after conviction and exhaustion of the appellate process, either by affirmance or by the failure to take a timely appeal. |
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| | Paul Craig Roberts, The Causes of Wrongful Conviction |
| | If police and prosecutors cannot identify and convict the guilty party in capital crime cases, where evidence and procedures are more closely examined, what must be the rate of wrongful conviction for less-serious crimes, especially those for which conviction is obtained by plea bargain? | | | Most of the scrutiny given to death penalty cases is a search for legal error. | | | The divide between liberals and conservatives on the death penalty could be bridged by changing the emphasis in the issue to wrongful conviction. |
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| | False Confessions? |
| | In the case of George Parker, the prosecution apparently continued to press for his conviction, only to be blocked by an appellate court.* State police continued to believe Peter Reilly committed the crime after an appellate court overturned the conviction. | | | To estimate the frequency of false confessions, one should canvass the available empirical evidence for estimates of (1) the number of criminal cases; (2) the error rate (that is, the wrongful conviction rate) in those cases; and (3) the proportion of wrongful convictions attributable to false confessions. | | | Instead of contending on the merits of these issues, Leo and Ofshe single-mindedly maintain that their collection of wrongful convictions demonstrates such a serious problem of wrongful convictions from false confessions that we must restructure the criminal justice system to erect new safeguards against this particular danger. |
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| | CNN.com - Yates' attorneys won't seek release - Jan 6, 2005 |
| | The Texas 1st Court of Appeals ruled that the convictions should be reversed because an expert witness for the state, Dr. Park Dietz, presented false testimony when he said Yates may have been influenced by an episode of the "Law and Order" television program. | | | CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explains the court's decision to overturn the convictions against Andrea Yates. | | | Woman to remain in prison after court overturns convictions |
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| | California DUI Penalties |
| | In California, conviction for the offense of DUI (Driving Under the Influence) carries stiff penalties and punishments. | | | With that in mind, here is an outline of what penalty and punishment to expect for such a DUI conviction. | | | Again, these are the minimal DUI penalites and punishments the court can impose. |
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| | AskOxford: conviction |
| | • noun 1 an instance of being convicted of a criminal offence. |
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| | Warspammer guilty under new federal law |
| | The Tombros case is one of a handful of wireless hacking convictions federal prosecutors reeled in this year. | | | Assistant U.S. attorney Wesley Hsu, who prosecuted Tombros, says he believes the spammer is the first to be convicted under CAN SPAM. | | | In a plea agreement with prosecutors, Nicholas Tombros, 37, faces a likely sentencing range stretching from probation to six months in custody, assuming he has no prior criminal convictions. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Conviction: Books |
| | Particularly compelling is his ability to put all sides of the arguements for and against capital punishment. | | | As allways Richard North Patterson is able to write in depth about a legal and moral subject. | | | This time he address the messy issue of capital punishment. |
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| | Feds convict warez pirate Tech News on ZDNet |
| | The Department of Justice said that Desir will be the first American citizen convicted as part of the plan that was introduced by outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft in April 2004. | | | The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa said that Jathan Desir, 26, of Iowa City, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in a criminal enterprise that distributed pirated software, games, movies and music over the Internet. | | | The Department of Justice has landed its first conviction against an American defendant trapped via Operation Fastlink, a multinational law enforcement effort undertaken against online software piracy. |
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| | A June 2002 study by the Insurance Research Council revealed that as many as one-quarter of driving convictions never end up on motor vehicle records, due to lack of shared information between courts and motor vehicle departments or because a conviction has been erased through alternative means, such as driving school. | | | Certain states don't allow insurance companies to drop you in the middle of the policy term even for a DUI, so make sure you know the laws in your state. | | | If you get your charge reduced in a plea bargain, or have a limited license suspension, such as 30 days, it's also very unlikely your insurer will find out about your conviction. |
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| | Wings to Awakening: Part III |
| | She grows in terms of conviction, in terms of virtue, in terms of learning, in terms of generosity, in terms of discernment. | | | These are the five rewards of conviction in a lay person. | | | This is the true test of one's conviction. |
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| | Chron.com Andrea Yates' conviction thrown out |
| | Yates' appeal cited 19 trial errors, but the appeals court ruled only on the false-testimony issue, since that was enough to reverse the conviction. | | | But right after Yates' conviction, defense attorneys discovered no such episode was produced. | | | Prosecutors will try to get the appeals judges to change their minds and barring that, take the case to a still higher court. |
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| | Jury convicts man in DMCA case CNET News.com |
| | A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in the first jury-trial conviction under the controversial law, according to a U.S. attorney's office. | | | The DMCA, signed into law by President Clinton in 1998, made it illegal to circumvent commercial antipiracy software, among other provisions. | | | Several other accused DMCA violators have pleaded guilty, according to the Computer Crimes Section of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. |
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| | Convictions overturned for mom who drowned 5 kids - Crime & Punishment - MSNBC.com |
| | The appeal cited 19 alleged errors from her trial, but the appeals court said that because the false testimony issue reversed the conviction, it was not ruling on the other matters. | | | The ruling by the state 1st District Court of Appeals means Yates is entitled to a new trial, though prosecutors said they would try to have the conviction reinstated. | | | Andrea Yates’ murder conviction for drowning her children in the bathtub was overturned by an appeals court Thursday because a psychiatrist for the prosecution gave erroneous testimony that suggested Yates got the idea from a non-existent episode of “Law and Order.” |
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| | The Office of General Counsel at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC |
| | EEOC position is that conviction of crime cannot be automatic bar to employment due to adverse impact on minorities. | | | However, a less than honorable discharge can be the basis for denial of reemployment under USERRA. | | | See 8 U.S.C. Whether candidate is legally eligible to work in the U.S. Item |
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| | Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Rape conviction overturned 05/27/04 |
| | The Court of Appeals threw out the criminal sexual conduct conviction and burglary conviction but ruled that the kidnapping conviction was proper. | | | Brinson appealed the case, arguing that a detective who testified should not have told jurors that Brinson was a registered sex offender. | | | But life sentence stands as S.C. Court of Appeals upholds kidnapping conviction. |
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| | If you are familiar with the Sheppard murder case, you know that it is not difficult to get railroaded in the United States. | | | Despite enormous protections offered by the federal and states constitutions throughout this country, many persons have been executed despite evidence of their innocence. | | | Click Here to add a Case of Wrongful Conviction. |
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| | BBC NEWS Science/Nature Brain fingerprints under scrutiny |
| | The crimes for which he is sentenced to death took place in a house that he is very familiar with. | | | A controversial technique for identifying a criminal mind using involuntary brainwaves that could reveal guilt or innocence is about to take centre stage in a last-chance court appeal against a death-row conviction in the US. | | | A few days ago Dr Farwell ran the test on Jimmy Ray Slaughter at the maximum security state prison in Oklahoma. |
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| | The Appalling Case of Bernard Baran |
| | But they waited until Baran was convicted before notifying the DA's office, as mandated by law. | | | While practically everyone knows about McMartin and some of the other day-care-panic cases of the 80s, few have heard of Bernard Baran, the first day-care worker convicted. | | | The trial transcript also contains a sidebar wherein Baran's lawyer says he might produce witnesses who overheard the boy's mother accuse the stepfather himself of having gonorrhea. |
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| | US spamming conviction overturned |
| | But the Judge upheld a conviction against DeGroot's brother, Jeremy Jaynes, 30, who was convicted in November 2004 of masterminding a June 2003 spamming blitz against AOL users. | | | The jury asked for Jaynes to be jailed for nine years and DeGroot fined $7,500 after what prosecutors described as the US's first felony spamming conviction though Howard Carmack (AKA the Buffalo spammer) might beg to differ. | | | Carmack was jailed for seven years in May after his March 2004 conviction for spamming-related offences (forgery, identity theft and falsifying business records). |
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| | Welcome To DUI Expungement Website |
| | DUI expungement.com is here to provide information about the different types of expungement relief that are available in drunk driving (DUI) cases, the eligibility requirements to expunge a conviction, what expungement can and cannot do, how to find an expungement lawyer to help expedite the expungement of your DUI conviction, and much, much more. | | | DUI expungement can provide the most comprehensive [post conviction] relief available by law. | | | Perhaps you went to trial to fight the DUI case, and lost. |
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| | Ninth Circuit Upholds Conviction of Iranian for Threat Made After He Was Caught Smoking on Airplane |
| | Since the jurors were not asked to convict Naghani without finding he threatened to “kill all Americans,” it was not necessary for the court to decide whether the statute would be unconstitutionally vague if it permitted a conviction based solely on smoking in a lavatory or making threats to sue when apprehended, Fisher explained. | | | The prosecutor’s closing argument improperly urged jurors to find that a violation of 49 U.S.C. Sec. | | | An Iranian citizen and Woodland Hills resident was properly convicted of intimidating airline flight attendants and sentenced to nearly three years in prison, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. |
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| | Jennifer Van Bergen: Lynne Stewart's Conviction Hurts Us All |
| | But that privilege is considered sacrosanct and we all have it, we all may call upon the attorney/client privilege because without it, we have no defense attorneys, we have no defense, and we have no witnesses to government abuse of our rights. | | | Only a few weeks ago, Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Barkow told the jury in his closing statement that Lynne Stewart "thought she could blow off the rules that apply to everyone else because she's a lawyer, and she's above the law. | | | Without criminal defense lawyers, who will protect us from government incursions of our rights? |
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| | ICv2 News - CBLDF Appeals Retailer Conviction |
| | The dissenter, Justice Tom James, agreed with the majority that the comic was obscene, but felt that it was not clear that Castillo knew what the content was. | | | The lawyer for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has filed an appeal to the highest criminal court in Texas in the obscenity conviction of Jesus Castillo, manager of a Dallas comic store. | | | This second appeal, a Petition for Discretionary Review, is being made after the Fifth District Court of Appeals upheld Castillo's conviction in July in a 2-1 decision. |
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| | Activist lawyer vows to fight terror conviction - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com |
| | “In the post 9-11 era, where dissidents are treated as traitors, it’s perhaps no surprise that a zealous civil rights lawyer becomes a convict.” | | | Activist lawyer vows to fight terror conviction - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com | | | Tigar suggested the case was an intrusion into attorney-client privilege as the government eavesdropped on prison conversations between Stewart and the sheik. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Yates' murder conviction tossed |
| | Prosecutors declined to discuss whether Yates would be tried a second time if further appeals failed to reinstate her conviction. | | | The murder conviction of Andrea Yates, the Houston woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001, was overturned Thursday by a Texas appeals court because a psychiatrist for the prosecution falsely testified that he had consulted for an episode of Law and Order. | | | George Dix, a University of Texas law professor, said Yates' conviction had demonstrated how difficult it is to prove insanity under Texas law. |
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| | USATODAY.com - S.D. court upholds Janklow's conviction |
| | PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The state's highest court on Thursday upheld Bill Janklow's conviction for a 2003 crash that killed a motorcyclist, rejecting the former congressman's argument that there wasn't enough evidence for a guilty verdict. | | | Ruling unanimously, the South Dakota Supreme Court also found that Janklow had received a fair trial. | | | Janklow, a political power in South Dakota who also served four terms as governor, resigned from the House in January 2004, a month after his conviction. |
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| | Texas Department of Public Safety - Courtesy, Service, Protection |
| | Percentage of Total Convictions Committed by Licensed Individuals | | | 2001 Conviction Rates of Concealed Handgun License Holders | | | FAIL OR REFUSE TO DISPLAY CONCEALED HANDGUN LICENSE |
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| | CONVICTION by Richard North Patterson |
| | Now, in Conviction, Patterson tackles one of the most emotional and complex of all legal debates: When, if ever, does the state have the right to exact the ultimate punishment–and is the death penalty a crime unto itself? | | | In a trial, Rennell, along with his older brother, Payton, was found guilty of the heinous crime, and the Conviction has been upheld through one appeal after another. | | | Conviction raises issues of ethics, political expediency, and personal trauma that will shake readers to their core. |
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| | Prosecutors admit error in whistleblower conviction |
| | McDanel, 30, was convicted last year under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for sending 5,600 e-mail messages to customers of his former employer, the now-defunct e-mail provider Tornado Development, Inc., warning about a security hole in Tornado's service that left private messages vulnerable to unauthorized access. | | | McDanel appealed last August, arguing that the judge misconstrued the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. | | | After a court trial, federal judge Lourdes Baird found McDanel guilty of unauthorized access, accepting prosecutors' arguments that McDanel abused Tornado's e-mail servers to send the messages. |
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| | BBC NEWS Technology US duo in first spam conviction |
| | They were convicted under a state law that bars the sending of bulk e-mails using fake addresses. | | | Jurors in Virginia recommended that the man, Jeremy Jaynes, serve nine years in prison and that his sister, Jessica DeGroot, be fined $7,500. | | | A brother and sister in the US have been convicted of sending hundreds of thousands of unsolicited e-mail messages to AOL subscribers. |
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| | I think that the statement -- while you're certainly correct that the lawyers made a legal distinction with respect to the Geneva Convention, in every time that was uttered, it was also added that they are being treated consistent with the Geneva Convention. | | | There's no question but that it has been my conviction that all of our rules, all of our procedures, all of our training is against abuse of people that are detained. | | | And the fact that it happens -- notwithstanding the fact that it's against everything that they're taught, against everything that we believe, it's also against anything that any individual on their own ought to believe is right. |
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| | FAFSA on the Web - U.S. Department of Education |
| | A federal law suspends your eligibility for fedaral student aid if you have been convicted under federal or state law for possession of or sale of illegal drugs (not including alcohol or tobacco). | | | If you have been convicted in the past, this does not automatically mean that you are ineligible for federal student aid. | | | This worksheet will help you determine your eligibility. |
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| | The Kristin Laurite Fund :: Dedicated to the capture and conviction of the murderer of Kristin Laurite. |
| | There are also many out of state police agencies and labs who have helped in kristin's case, and we thank each and every one of you for your time, hard work and efforts. | | | The Kristin Laurite Fund :: Dedicated to the capture and conviction of the murderer of Kristin Laurite. | | | We look forward to the day our family can show you our appreciation in person, when justice is served and kristin's killer convicted. |
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| | Power Line: Guilty |
| | I think this was a difficult but meritorious case for the government. | | | Today the jury convicted them all: "Rights lawyer convicted of helping terrorists." | | | In this day and age of judicial activism by judges that legislate from the bench and have no real oversight applied to them, apparently lawyers now think that they, too, are above the law.Civil Rights Lawyer Is Convicted of Aiding Terrorists By JULIA... |
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| | In fact, there is nothing more powerful than conviction." (2) | | | “The little permanent deed with conviction is favorable in the sight of Allah to the many deeds that are lacking conviction." (3) | | | Out of His justice and equality, Allah has made pleasure and rest lie in conviction and content, and has made care and grief lie in suspect and dissatisfaction." (4) |
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| | For further information please contact Emily Langlie, Public Affairs Officer for the United States Attorney's Office at (206) 553-4110. | | | This is the first criminal conviction in the United States under the health information privacy provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) which became effective in April, 2003. | | | RICHARD W. GIBSON, age 42, of SeaTac, Washington pleaded guilty today in federal court in Seattle to wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information for economic gain. |
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| | Justices Overturn Andersen Conviction |
| | U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon should have instructed the jury that the law required the government to prove that Andersen knew it was breaking the law, the court ruled. | | | The court ruled unanimously that the Houston jury that found Arthur Andersen LLP guilty of obstruction of justice was given overly broad instructions by the federal judge who presided at the trial. | | | The Supreme Court's unanimous rebuff of the 2002 conviction of Arthur Andersen for destroying Enron Corp.-related documents is a major defeat for the Department of Justice, which prosecuted one of the nation's largest accounting firms against the advice of numerous critics. |
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| | The Supreme Judicial Court in a split decision ruled that Michael Hyde violated the state's electronic surveillance law, which prohibits secret recordings. | | | BOSTON -- The state's highest court on Friday upheld the conviction of a man who secretly recorded police after they pulled him over. | | | A jury took less than an hour to convict Hyde of breaking the electronic surveillance law. |
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| | A Loudoun County judge yesterday sentenced the first person convicted of felony spam charges in the nation to nine years in prison but allowed him to remain free on bond during his appeal. | | | Lisa Hicks-Thomas, a prosecutor with the computer crimes division of the Virginia attorney general's office, said she is certain the conviction and sentence will prevail on appeal. | | | The case was tried in Loudoun because the e-mails, which peddled such products as stock pickers and a computer program, ran through an AOL server in the county. |
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| | YV Review: Epps Acts With 'Conviction' on Showtime |
| | YV Review: Epps Acts With 'Conviction' on Showtime | | | I can't talk about "Conviction," which is playing on Showtime, without talking about Omar Epps. | | | His reading skills served him well and, with the help of a Quaker instructor, he completed a bachelor's degree while in prison. |
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