Judge Won't Throw Out Peterson Charges
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A judge on Monday denied a defense motion to dismiss the charges against Scott Peterson, saying the evidence presented so far in his murder trial was enough to justify a conviction if the jury so decides.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.  - A California judge denied  on Monday a bid by Michael Jackson's lawyers to throw out the  child molestation charges against the pop star or delay his  trial by several months.
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The judge in the Scott Peterson trial Monday rejected a defense request to move the case to another community and pick a whole new jury to decide whether Peterson should get the death penalty for killing his pregnant wife.
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THE judge in pop icon Michael Jackson&#39;s child abuse case tentatively ruled today that scores of items of evidence seized at his Neverland Ranch could not be used against him in evidence.
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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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Prosecutors in Scott Peterson's murder trial sought Tuesday to counter defense claims that police were so eager to charge their client with his wife's killing that they ignored other credible tips.
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He was a philandering husband convicted of the shocking murder of his young and very pregnant wife. His name wasn&#39;t Scott Peterson, though.
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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.
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Judge Won&#39;t Consider Delays in Michael Jackson Case That&#39;s Scheduled to Start Trial Jan. 31. Defense attorneys Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr.
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A judge handling James Brown's contested fortune refused Friday to remove himself from the case despite an argument from the late soul singer's former trustees that he forced them to resign.
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A Colorado judge on Wednesday dismissed  a rape charge against basketball star Kobe Bryant after the  young woman who made the accusations told prosecutors she could  not go on with the case.
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The federal court judge overseeing a criminal tax fraud case against 16 former executives at KPMG said he will not dismiss charges until he learns how the defendants were allegedly harmed by illegal government conduct.
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A Los Angeles judge on Tuesday refused to throw out a lawsuit against Unocal Corp. over human rights abuses during the building of a pipeline in Myanmar.
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A man accused of murder for a fatal auto crash will not be retried on that charge because prosecutors failed to disclose that an expert witness made numerous errors at the police department crime lab, a judge ruled.
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REDWOOD CITY - In the Scott Peterson murder trial the defense has been trying to explain Peterson&#39;s actions on the day he was arrested.
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Hatred for Scott Peterson is not enough to convict the man for the murders of his pregnant wife and the fetus she carried, Peterson&#39;s defense attorney told jurors during his closing arguments Tuesday.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif.  - In a sign of growing  disarray among the jury considering the double-murder case  against Scott Peterson, the judge dismissed the foreman on  Wednesday, a day after another juror was removed midway through  deliberations.