Ethics trial begins for Duke lacrosse DA
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As Mike Nifong was calling the Duke lacrosse team a "bunch of hooligans" in public, he was privately acknowledging that the rape case would be hard to prove and that the accuser's story was filled with inconsistencies, a police investigator testified Tuesday.
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Disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong pleaded not guilty Thursday to criminal contempt charges stemming from his failure to turn over complete DNA testing results during the now-discredited Duke lacrosse rape case.
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Three current and former Duke lacrosse players Â but not the ones indicted in a discredited rape case Â sued the university, a disgraced prosecutor and dozens of others Tuesday, claiming the prosecution damaged them, too.
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Jury selection began Thursday in the fraud trial of a celebrity pathologist accused of using his public office and county staff to benefit his multimillion-dollar private practice.
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A one-time congressional candidate faced the opening of a trial Tuesday on charges alleging he faked a story about getting lost after a car crash and disappearing for a day in an attempt to boost his lagging campaign.
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Four Duke Men's lacrosse players, including national player of the year Matt Danowski, will return for a fifth season granted by the NCAA to restore a year lost amid rape allegations that led to false charges against three former teammates.
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Every member of Duke University&#039;s lacrosse team is a potential witness in the case against three players charged with rape, a prosecutor said Monday in arguing for access to their student ID card records.
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Jurors began deliberations Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of using antifreeze to poison his wife, who left a note saying he should be a suspect in the event of her death.
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A man accused of murdering five women in Suffolk begins giving evidence at his trial.
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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk during a 10-day period in 2006 is due to begin.
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A judge set a trial date Wednesday for a lawsuit against the University of Colorado that touched off a scandal in the football program over allegations that sex, drugs and alcohol were used to lure recruits.
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By Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 2--The first jury trial in a Dallas Cowboys stadium eminent-domain case is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
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Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) has hired a top defense attorney to handle the pending ethics investigation into allegations that he pressured a federal prosecutor to bring indictments against New Mexico Democrats on the eve of the 2006 elections.
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Durham County's former district attorney was sworn Thursday to temporarily replace Mike Nifong, who was disbarred last week over his prosecution of the Duke lacrosse case.
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A woman who accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape initially told police she was attacked by five men at a team party and at one point denied she had been raped, according to a police report released Friday by a defense attorney.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- A judge ordered testing Friday to determine whether three Duke lacrosse players fathered the child of a woman who accuses them of rape _ a prospect defense attorneys dismissed as an "absolute impossibility."
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By Ted Vaden, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 4--Most readers don't want The N&O to name complainants in sex crime cases. But most do want the paper to name the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case.