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Dharun Ravi gets 30 days in spying trial

A New Jersey judge on Monday sentenced Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail for spying on and intimidating his gay Rutgers University roommate, Tyler Clementi, who then killed himself by jumping off New York's George Washington Bridge in September 2010.

Bernie Fine's wife sues ESPN

Laurie Fine, wife of former Syracuse basketball coach Bernie Fine, comments after filing suit against ESPN for libel.

Was a note on Isabel's wall?

Nancy Grace investigates reports cops won't confirm about a note allegedly written inside Isabel Celis' closet.

Teen missing after fight with boyfriend

A 19 year old Texas woman is missing who was last seen leaving her apartment after a fight with her boyfriend.

Ala. governor's new immigration bill

Alabama's governor on Friday signed legislation that he said will "simplify and clarify" the state's controversial anti-illegal immigration law, considered one of the country's toughest.
 

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I NEED your help to give justice to my mother; tomorrow it's their feast, help me to get a little of peace..Tks

Posted by carla Venturelli on May 12, 2012 at 4:32pm 0 Comments

Hi, I am  an Italian woman.

 In Italy the situation is very difficult.

We are going through a crisis both economically and socially very heavy.

Almost every day a person commits suicide because of economic or social problems, often for problems of justice 

Even  for it  we are the 190 th place in the world rankings .."Black shirt" also  for European Commission.

I put a petition on Care 2 site, the field Human Rights, with which I ask justice for the murder of my mother after an operation of routine, the substitution of heart  valves and   wrong blood transfusion!!

This is the link of the petition :



http://www.thepetitionsite.com/455/320/749/demand-justice-for-my-mothers-murder-im-fighting-for-10-years/

I'm fighting for 10 years to get justice but   NOBODY LISTENS TO ME, and in Italy is normal!

Every day a great scandal , often in health business...corruption and illegality!!I

SWEAR that  everything I say  in my petition is true ..  

I were you I would thinkyou may write to newspapapers, politicians, associations,  there will be 'someone who thinks it is not fair if you haven't  the right  to  be heard by attorney neither your witness  and if you haven't the right to be confronted with the…
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Alleged Murderer Drew Peterson Must Face Second-Hand Testimony From Victims

Posted by Dave Lang Editor on April 13, 2012 at 11:49pm 0 Comments

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Prosecutor James Glasgow, who has aggressively pursued the case against Drew Peterson as Will County States Attorney, won a major victory. An appellate court granted his motion to allow hearsay testimony from people who knew Drew Peterson's ex-wives. The motion was based on the concept of allowing heresy, when an accused killer silences a witness by murder.



Peterson is now 57, held pending this appeal since his arrest May 2009. With this appeal victory, Charles Pelkie, speaking for the State's Attorney said, "We anticipate a trial later this spring or early in the summer."



Peterson is alleged to have killed his third wife, Kathleen Savio, after she was exhumed and re-autopsied. The coroner's report, indicating suspicious death, together with the heresy testimony appear to be the real evidence against Drew Peterson. Had the court disallowed the heresy, it's doubtful the case could have proceeded. The autopsy was ordered after the suspicious disappearance of Peterson's fourth wife, still missing. Peterson has not been charged in her disappearance.



Although the lower court ruled that secondhand testimony is unreliable, and the appellate court agreed, nevertheless, the testimony will be allowed, unless Drew Peterson's aggressive defense team appeal to a higher court.

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Supreme Court Grants Stay of Execution for Convicted Serial Killer Anthony Sowell — Could Delay Death 30 Years

Posted by L Hartmann on April 13, 2012 at 11:21pm 1 Comment

By Citizen Journalist JENNIFERCARTER



In a move that could be the first step in almost indefinitely delaying the execution of serial killer Anthony Sowell, Ohia Supreme Court postponed his execution while defence attorneys appeal. The prosector in Cuyahoga County said this is routine and it could result in delays of 10 to 30 years.



In July of 2011, 52-year-old Sowell was found guilty of murdering 11 women. Although the remains of their bodies were found in and around his home on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, there appear to be grounds for appeals? He was sentenced to die on October 29, but attorney's Jef Gamso and William Summers managed to get a stay. Their reason? "I have 12,000 pages of transcripts and three banker boxes full of courts records to court through… the appeal could take years," said Gasmo. Sowell's other attorney, Summers, has recently had his license suspended.



Looking Back at Anthony Sowell's bloody killing spree

In November, 2009, police in Cleveland, Ohio, arrested 50 year old Anthony Sowell on charges relating to the deaths and gruesome discovery of several people.  Sowell had managed to evade the police after they were tipped off to six of the bodies, which were discovered in and about his home.  Sowell is a convicted felon, convicted of attempted rape in 1989, a crime for which he served 15 years in prison.

Anthony gained the moniker of ëThe Cleveland Stranglerí, named by the media as a nationwide manhunt was conducted, due to the…

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Court News: Dharan Ravi Found Guilty in Precedent-Setting Spy-Cam Internet Hate Crime

Posted by Gary Hale on March 16, 2012 at 3:39pm 1 Comment

Above: Dhuran Ravi, apparently calm, as he listens to his guilty verdict in hate crimes (see video below). Ravi rejected a plea bargain that would have seen him serve no time, but now faces up to 10 years in prison.



Citizen Journalist Gary Hale



Dharun Ravi, 20 years old, faces as much as ten years in prison, after being found guilty on 15 counts in the webcam spying hate crime against his gay roommate. The court believed arguments that Ravi's motive was to force his gay roommate out, in an apparent hate crime. He set up a spy cam and broadcast images of his roommate kissing another man. His room mate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide over the crime.

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Sex Crime Beat: This Week in Sex Crimes

Posted by Julie Sullivan on March 14, 2012 at 2:51pm 0 Comments

Above: Valerie Bartkey and Amanda Johnson, sisters, allegedly abused a young male teen, including S/M abuse.



Citizen Journalist Julie Sullivan



Two alleged perpetrators, Valerie Bartkey and Amanda Johnson, both sisters and live in Sommeset allegedly sexually assaulted a young male teen. The male teen, who is high school age, was allegedly subjected to beating and heinous sexual torture.



Joseph, who is the male teen, was said to have been subjected by the two sisters, to having to drink urine to having sex with one of them and finally having a pair of pliers put to his penis in a torture session. When the two sisters learned that Joseph was going to press charges against them. They threatened to reveal to police that Joseph was using drugs on the night of the party.

Above: Neng Yang allegedly abused a second grader in Clovis, California



A School Teacher Abuse of Second-Grader

California school teacher Neng Yang allegedly abused a second-grader of a school in Clovis, California. Yang was apparently a respected and trusted teacher at Freedom Elementary School in Clovis from 2007 until this accusation of abuse took place in early January of 2012. …



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Court News: Former Mountie Found Guilty of Murdering Ottawa Cop

Posted by Greg Gritt on March 13, 2012 at 11:27pm 0 Comments

Above: Murder victim Ottawa Police Officer Ireneusz Czapnik. He was murdered by an ex police officer Kevin Gregson, once of the RCMP.

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OTTAWA- A jury of four women and eight men deliberated for nine hours before finding ex-RCMP officer Kevin Gregson guilty in the first-degree stabbing homicide of Ottawa police officer Ireneusz Czapnik.



Gregson argued in his trial that he wasn't attacking Czapnik, but wanted only to "grab his gun" so he could kill himself. The Prosecutor argued that he meant to kill the 51 year-old police officer. The altercation occurred outside Civic Hospital in Ottawa.



Gregson was dismissed from the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) for discipline and behaviour problems. The ex-Mountie was also found guilty of robbery, related to a car-jacking.



In Canada, first degree murder carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. He was also sentenced to five years concurrent for the car-jacking.

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Homicide News: Double Homicide Shock

Posted by Gerry Cadet on March 13, 2012 at 12:17pm 1 Comment

Above: Curtis Rideout, the alleged murderer of his father and another victim, shown here in a Facebook photo posing with his gun.

By Gerry Cadet



Hanna, Alta—A twenty four year old boy has been charged with homicide in the first and second rated degree. It is a double homicide murder case. The alleged pepetrator's name is Curtis Everett Rideout, who has been charged for murdering an adult female and male. On last Friday RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) announced the double homicide murder case. Investigators believe that the victim is his father. Name of the male victim is Bruce Rideout.



Above: The victim's house, where two bodies were found, one believed to be the father of the alleged perpetrator.

Investigators are hesitant to reveal the identification of the victims officially in the media. Through our sources, we discovered the murderer called the police officers on Thursday morning and asked them to come to a house located in the town east of Drumheller, Alberta. Police officers discovered a man, now alleged to have murdered two adults. The RCMP, while conducting the investigation visited the victim's house, which was located about three hundred block away in 3rd Avenue, where they found two deceased, a man in his forties and a lady in her early thirties.



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Homicide Beat: Finally a 1997 Murder Case Heads to Trial

Posted by Jeremiah Suarez on March 12, 2012 at 10:44pm 1 Comment



Citizen Journalist Jeremiah Suarez



They say that the only things that are certain in life are death and taxes. Tax season is upon us and we are all being made clearly aware of the former. As for the latter, unfortunately too many deaths are brought about by murder, and right now is no different. Here are the prominent homicide stories in the news today.



A murder case that took place in 1997 is perhaps finally on its way to seeing justice. A British former Colorado hotel owner stands accused of murdering his wife, Sabrina Bebb-Jones. She first went missing in 1997 and it was surprisingly seven years later that her skull was found in a remote location of Colorado, by a rancher. In the years after his wife's disappearance, Marcus Bebb-Jones (inset picture) had gone back to his home country, but American authorities have finally been able to present enough evidence to Britain in order to get him back to Colorado, where he's now facing charges of murdering his wife.



In a much more recent case, police have arrested the suspected murderer of a 53-year-old woman who was murdered in February in the state of Missouri. Apparently, Jay Rothe said he murdered Linda Riley after a personal dispute and then he burned her corpse next to a lake. In true cold-blooded murder fashion, he fished…

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Crime might be declining in America, but crimes committed tend to be more bizarre

Posted by Rachel Nduter on March 9, 2012 at 4:00pm 2 Comments

Citizen Journalist Rachel Nduter

Like any other place in the world, America remains a country plagued by crime. Traditionally, Detroit, Memphis and Miami have been the most dangerous cities in America. However, a recent report compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) indicates that there is a general decline in crime rates in America. Categories studied and analysed for the year 2011 included murder (4.2% drop), forcible rape (5.0% drop), robbery (10% drop), aggravated assault (4.1% drop), burglary (2% drop), larceny - theft (2.4% drop), motor vehicle theft (7.4%) and arson (7.6% drop).The top three crimes for which law enforcement reported arrests were drug abuse violations, driving while intoxicated and larceny - theft respectively. The firearms murder rate was highest in Washington D.C., followed by Louisiana and Missouri in that order. The murder rates were highest in California at 1,811 and Texas at 1,246 respectively.

Of greater interest though is the fact that a thorough scrutiny into the nature of crime in the country reveals that it is quickly taking a rather queer and bizarre dimension. Murderers are not only killing; they are now eating their prey! A case in point is the ongoing inquiry into the death of a homeless man in Connecticut, Florida. Tyree Smith - the accused - is alleged to have hacked a homeless man to death with an axe and proceeded to feed on some of his brain and an eyeball. Investigations are ongoing.…

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Why I Think Crime is Out of Control in America

Posted by Bhaghat Bhandari on February 14, 2012 at 7:30pm 2 Comments

Member Post by Bhaghat Bhandari

The concern about crime in America is that it involves many issues coming from how there are too many juries that tend to be divided with regards to what goes on in a case. The problem with juries being groups that are tough to agree with is a big issue that might make it difficult for cases to be handled and for justice to be met.

This is a huge risk because it does more than create injustice by influencing who can and cannot be put in jail for crimes. This involves how people are feeling like they can commit crimes if they feel like it simply because they feel that they are not likely to actually get into trouble for some kind of crime.

One good example of this involves a trial in North Carolina of Jason Young, a person who was arrested in the fatal beating of his wife in 2009. This arrest can three years after the beating. However, he did not get convicted of anything in 2011 during his first trial because the jury was divided over the verdict and could not reach a proper verdict in time.

This is a big issue that has been of concern. The evidence is clearly mounting towards Young and even suggests that he wanted to get out of his marriage and had been with another woman in Virginia during the time that he has allegedly beat his wife to death.

This is a problem because the justice for a victim may not be easy to handle due to how people are willing to commit crimes with the belief that they may not actually be in trouble even if they are in trouble.

Another example comes from the Chicago area trial of Larry Dominick, a person who fired a handyman without any basis for doing so and was supported by a jury who determined that he did not fire that handyman for political reasons. However, the judge in that case threw the verdict out and is asking for a retrial to see if another result may be prepared to award reimbursement to the person who was wrongfully fired.

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