Accused Chooses Not to Testify ; COURTS
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American banking heir Matthew Mellon decided not to give evidence against claims he paid a private detective agency to electronically snoop on his estranged wife.   His barrister, Nicholas Purnell QC, told London's Southwark Crown Court he was not calling witnesses.
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The judge in the Michael Jackson child-molestation case has ruled that a hearing about allegations of past sexual misconduct by the singer will not be held behind closed doors.
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Barry Bonds' personal trainer shuttled between secret grand jury hearings and closed-door appearances before a judge. Then he left federal court without commenting on whether he complied with orders to testify against his childhood friend in a perjury and tax evasion probe.
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Judges at the war crimes trial of the ex-Yugoslav leader may issue subpoenas to defence witnesses unwilling to testify.
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proceedings delayed by his ill health, a retired Belgrade law professor became the trial&#39;s first defence witness. court called his former Belgrade University law professor Smilja Avramov to start testifying.
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Denied a chance to debate the legality of the Iraq war in court, an Army officer who refused to go to Iraq now goes to trial hoping to at least minimize the amount of time he could serve if convicted.
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The media and public will be barred from witnessing the testimony of Iraqis in a hearing for U.S. Army soldiers accused of raping and murdering an Iraqi teenager, an Army commander has ruled.
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A lawyer who believed that prosecutors had committed misconduct stayed silent for 10 years due to ethics rules.
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Hours after an indictment against former Springfield Bishop Thomas Dupre was unsealed Monday accusing him of raping two boys in the &#39;70s, the county prosecutor refused
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A man won't face trial on charges he raped three residents of a short-term home for the mentally handicapped because his accusers were found incompetent to testify against him.
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A terror suspect accused of a bomb plot tells a jury he is stopping giving evidence over fears for his family.
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Neither Vice President Cheney nor I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby will testify in Libby's perjury trial, defense attorneys announced in court this afternoon.
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REDWOOD CITY - Testimony in Scott Peterson&#39;s double-murder trial abruptly ended Wednesday with prosecuting attorneys deciding not to call rebuttal witnesses.
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LONDON -- A British Muslim man accused of plotting to carry out a series of deadly bombings refused to resume testifying at his trial yesterday, a day after saying he feared for his family's safety in Pakistan.
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A US military judge denied a request to call US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to testify in an abuse case against former Abu Ghraib prison guards.
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WASHINGTON -- Rapper 50 Cent will not have to testify at NBA star Allen Iverson's assault trial this month, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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An appeals court said that evidence at the trial did not justify the guilty verdicts.