Rapist of 91-year-old to be freed
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A man who raped a 91-year-old woman and who police say poses a risk to the public, is to be released from jail.
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ATLANTA, June 11 -- A Georgia judge on Monday ordered the release of a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, a sentence that had been widely criticized as grossly disproportionate to the crime.
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A judge has ruled that Genarlow Wilson should be released from a 10-year prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, a case that has drawn national attention.
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A Minnesota cornerback, accused of raping a woman that investigators say had consumed so much alcohol she was physically helpless, was released from jail Tuesday just hours after a court appearance.
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A man who has been on death row for 20 years for the murder of a toddler is to be freed after a plea bargain.
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Nearly 200 inmates serving time for murder, rape and kidnapping will be eligible for immediate release following a ruling by the Delaware Supreme Court that some life sentences should be considered 45-year terms.
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CALGARY (CP) - More than 12 years after a serial rapist terrorized a quiet southwest Calgary neighbourhood, police say advances in DNA technology have led to the arrest of a 61-year-old man who was a suspect all along.
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A court ordered an 86-year-old man accused of Nazi war crimes in Slovakia freed from custody Friday after a key witness said he could no longer clearly remember what happened.
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More than 20 years ago, federal Judge Bruce Van Sickle issued a landmark decision that led to the release of hundreds of mentally retarded people from two North Dakota institutions. Now, 87 years old and stricken with Alzheimer's, the retired judge is himself at the center of a legal fight to remove him from an institution.
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A man who was convicted in 1990 of raping and murdering a high school classmate when he was 16 was freed from prison Wednesday after DNA evidence implicated another man.
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The court reinstated a death sentence for a rapist and murderer whose appeal over the exclusion of a juror had succeeded in lower courts.
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MADISON, Wis., Feb. 6 -- A former child-care provider sent to prison more than a decade ago in the fatal shaking of a baby was freed Wednesday, six days after an appeals court ruled that the latest research into shaken baby syndrome might prove her innocence.
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A man jailed for raping and murdering his niece had rape charges against him  dropped in 2003, it emerges.
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By Carrie J. Sidener, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb. 21--A woman convicted of killing her husband will stay out of jail for four months while she undergoes hip surgery.   Campbell County Circuit Court Judge J.S.
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John Evander Couey was sentenced to death Friday for abducting, raping and killing 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive. Couey, 48, is a previously convicted sex offender with a 30-year criminal history. Jessica was snatched from her bed in Homosassa, Florida. Her body was found three weeks later.
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Georgia's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of a young man who has been imprisoned for more than two years for having consensual oral sex with another teenager.
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ATLANTA, June 14 -- Georgia's Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear the state's arguments for keeping in prison a man who had consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. The state's attorney general later said the prisoner's  release could lead to  hundreds of incarcerated child...