Court won't apply rule to molester case
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The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated a Nevada child molester's conviction Wednesday in a decision that continued the justices' refusal to apply recent rulings on criminal procedure to older cases.
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The district attorney prosecuting Michael Jackson on child molestation charges can stay on the case. That ruling came down Thursday from Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville in Santa Barbara County, California.
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The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review an Air Force lieutenant's criminal conviction for having sex with a 15-year-old boy, which the officer contended was protected by a previous court decision overturning state statues that criminalized gay sex.
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LOS ANGELES: A US judge dealt a double blow to Michael Jackson yesterday, refusing to throw out the child molestation charges against him or to delay his trial.
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A judge denied bond Monday for a man accused of abducting and assaulting a 14-year-old girl and holding her in an underground bunker for more than a week before she was able to send a text message to her mother.
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EAGLE, Colo. - In another setback to the prosecution in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, the Colorado Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal of a key ruling that allows the NBA star's attorneys to tell jurors about the accuser's sex life...
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A district attorney in Massachusetts says he will not prosecute Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Dupre for child rape. He says the statute of limitations has expired.
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether a Texas law making it a crime to promote sex toys shaped like sexual organs is unconstitutional.
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Staff Writer. 11/30/04 The judge in the Michael Jackson case on Monday denied a defense request to have psychological experts examine the boy who is accusing the entertainer of molestation.
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A federal judge has rejected a man's bid for exoneration in a child-molestation case explored in a noted documentary film, saying he filed his appeal too late.
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Attorney general says Justice can't investigate waterboarding because it earlier ruled tactic legal.
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By Linda Thomson Deseret Morning News  Third District Judge Robin Reese on Wednesday denied a request by defense attorneys to admit any evidence regarding any sexual activity that a 14-year-old slaying victim might have engaged in.  Dan L.
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In another setback to the prosecution in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case, the court maintains ruling that allows information about the accuser's sex life into court.
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The Supreme Court decided Monday not to plunge into the issue of school choice, passing up a dispute over a Maine law that bars the use of public funds to send students to private religious schools.
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A judge on Friday dismissed charges of attempted sexual assault against three men accused of trying to dig up a woman's body to have sex with the corpse, noting that Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia.
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A former legal adviser to former Gov. John G. Rowland cannot be forced to testify against him in a federal probe into contract steering, a federal appeals court ruled.
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The judge in the Michael Jackson molestation case Thursday rejected a defense bid to throw out the indictment in a ruling that for the first time publicly detailed the conspiracy charge against the pop star.