Elizabeth Smart Suspect Competent To Stand Trial
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SALT LAKE CITY -- A Utah judge has found Brian David Mitchell competent to stand trial in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Mitchell appeared in court in handcuffs Tuesday morning for the first of what
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The first trial of a suspect implicated in the March 11 train bombings in Madrid opens on Tuesday with a 16-year-old in the dock facing up to eight years in detention for allegedly handling the explosives used in the attack which killed 191 people.
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A judge unsealed an indictment Wednesday against a homeless street preacher accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, a day after the self-proclaimed prophet was ruled competent to stand trial.
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Former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla is mentally competent to stand trial on terrorism charges, a U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday.
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A former Baylor University basketball player charged with murdering a teammate was ruled incompetent to stand trial Thursday.
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Dawnette Knight, the woman accused of stalking actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, was declared mentally competent Wednesday to continue criminal proceedings.
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is competent to stand trial on terrorism support charges, rejecting arguments that he was severely damaged by 3 1/2 years of interrogation and isolation in a military brig. Padilla was in court when U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke announced her decision, but he showed no reaction.
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The woman accused of making death  threats against actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on Wednesday was  declared mentally competent to continue criminal proceedings.
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Suspected al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla is mentally competent to stand trial on terrorism conspiracy charges, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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The man accused of killing British tourist Peter Falconio is to stand trial for his murder, an Australian court has ruled.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. The star witness in the murder trial of Scott Peterson is expected to take the stand today.
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A teenager accused of raping an 8-year-girl and leaving her for dead in an abandoned landfill has been declared mentally incompetent and unfit to stand trial.
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An SUV driver accused of running down 19 people in a deadly spree through streets and sidewalks was found competent to stand trial after his medication was changed.
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The Utah Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal on whether a woman accused in the 2002 abduction of then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart may be forcibly medicated in the hope she may become mentally fit to stand trial.
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The 71-year-old partner of a woman found dead at her home over a year ago is accused of her murder.
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Evidence from one of five women murdered in Ipswich is heard at the trial of the man accused of killing them.
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A 17-year-old charged with murder by police investigating the killing of a mother in south London is due in court.