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  • June 2008

    • No Crying in the Courtroom!

      newser  |  Time  |  Jun 25, 08 11:32 AM CDT

      No Crying in the Courtroom!

      State prosecutors in Ohio want to ban teary-eyed appeals to the jury in an upcoming capital murder case, Time reports. A motion seeking to prohibit blubbering defense attorneys accuses them of crying on cue and violating a 1999 Ohio Supreme Court ruling that it’s “improper to inflame a jury’s emotions by crying.” A defense attorney for the trial calls the motion “a little ridiculous.” More »

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      capital punishment  • lawyer  • prosecutors  • trial lawyers  • crying

  • May 2008

    • 'I Am No Monster': Fritzl

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  May 7, 08 11:37 AM CDT

      'I Am No Monster': Fritzl

      Josef Fritzl complained today about receiving bad press since admitting to keeping an incestuous second family locked in his Austrian cellar, the Telegraph reports. "I am no monster," Fritzl said through his lawyer, calling his treatment “unfair” and calling the media's narrative “entirely one-dimensional” because it neglected the fact that he kept his dungeon family alive for over 20 years. More »

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      child abuse  • Josef Fritzl  • sexual abuse  • Austria  • incest  • Amstetten, Austria  • Kerstin Fritzl  • prosecutors

  • February 2008

    • 'Video Vigilante' Boasts Tar and Feathering 2.0

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Feb 23, 08 11:29 AM CST

      'Video Vigilante' Boasts Tar and Feathering 2.0

      Brian Bates captures unsuspecting people on candid camera, but his subjects don’t have reason to smile: He’s the self-proclaimed Video Vigilante of Oklahoma City, capturing men consorting with prostitutes and then posting the videos online. “If you get caught by the cops, you pay a fine,” Bates said. “If you get caught by me, you get a life sentence.” More »

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      YouTube  • police  • prostitution  • Oklahoma City  • prosecutors

  • December 2007

    • Murder Earns Few Women Death Penalty

      newser  |  Seattle Times  |  Dec 30, 07 9:33 PM CST

      Murder Earns Few Women Death Penalty

      With prosecutors still debating whether to seek the death penalty against Michele Anderson, charged in the murder of six members of her family on Christmas Eve, the Seattle Times looks at the odds that the Carnation, Wash., woman might actually be sentenced to death. Women rarely receive the death penalty, the paper finds, and in Washington state, no woman has ever been put to death. More »

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      crime  • death penalty  • capital punishment  • death row  • Washington state  • prosecutors  • Carnation, Wash.

    • Perps Catch Themselves on Candid Camera

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 8, 07 9:29 PM CST

      Perps Catch Themselves on Candid Camera

      Criminals may want to think twice the next time they feel like snapping photos of their exploits: authorities nationwide are using the indecent exposures as evidence against them, the Wall Street Journal reports. “We pray for those kinds of cases,” said an assistant state attorney, while a small-town prosecutor estimated phone cameras supply evidence 40-50 times a year. More »

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