Jury blames murders on mob defendants
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A federal jury held three aging mobsters responsible for 10 murders Thursday after an extraordinary trial that included colorful witnesses who exposed the seedy inner workings of organized crime in Chicago.
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A Spanish jury considers the case against a County Antrim man accused of killing a prostitute on a holiday island.
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As they prepare to wrap up their murder case against Scott Peterson in the death of his pregnant wife Laci, even prosecutors have acknowledged their case has at times left jurors scratching their heads.
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Prosecutors on Wednesday said they filed murder, assault and racketeering charges against a white supremacist prison gang.
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Robert Blake murdered his wife after two stuntmen he solicited refused to commit the crime, a prosecutor told jurors Monday in opening statements for the actor's trial.
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Jurors on Tuesday convicted two men of murdering three young relatives whose bodies were nearly decapitated. Policarpio Espinoza, 24, and Adan Canela, 19, were found guilty of slashing the children's throats.
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The jury in the trial of seven men charged over Britain's biggest cash robbery begins to give its verdicts.
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Accused mob boss John "Junior" Gotti   eluded conviction for a third time -- matching his late   father's record -- when a federal judge on Wednesday declared a   mistrial after jurors were deadlocked.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 9 -- Calling him &quot;the worst kind of monster&quot; and undeserving of sympathy, a prosecutor urged jurors to sentence Scott Peterson to death for murdering his pregnant wife before the panel began deciding his punishment Thursday.
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HOUSTON Jurors stung a bit of Wall Street by convicting four former Merrill Lynch and Company executives and a former midlevel Enron finance executive of conspiracy and fraud.
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TORONTO (CP) - The jury that convicted Robert Baltovich of murder in 1992 got "inflammatory" and "unfair" guidance from a trial judge who failed to give equal weight to both the Crown and the defence, a court heard Thursday.
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A jury Wednesday acquitted all five defendants charged with murder in the 1982 death of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, who was called "God's banker" for his close ties to the Vatican.
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A U.S. jury deadlocked on Friday   over whether two Aryan Brotherhood prison gang leaders should   be sentenced to death for their convictions on murder,   racketeering and conspiracy charges.
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A pair of mob shootings in three days, one of them reminiscent of a hit on last week's episode of "The Sopranos," prompted speculation of a nascent Mafia war in New York City.
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Most people think that juries are more likely than judges to let defendants off the hook. The conventional wisdom, however, may be dead wrong
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In a pre-emptive maneuver, the prosecutor in the Robert Blake murder case warned prospective jurors Tuesday they would hear that the actor's slain wife was "not Mother Teresa" and that some people may have thought she deserved to be killed.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - As they prepare to wrap up their murder case against Scott Peterson in the death of his pregnant wife Laci, even prosecutors have acknowledged their case has at times left jurors scratching their heads...