Defense Attacks Mistress in Calif. Murder Case
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A lawyer for accused double murderer Scott Peterson on Monday tried to portray Peterson&#39;s ex-mistress as a desperate single mom who turned police informant to punish Peterson for lying to her.
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A best-selling novelist who pretended  she was a 19-year-old male prostitute sought to defend herself  in court on Wednesday against claims she defrauded a film  company that bought the rights to her book.
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An Oregon woman who shot and killed  her husband during a camping trip has sued crime writer Ann  Rule for libel, claiming that a 2003 book on the case depicts  her as "evil, delusional and a sociopath."
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By DON THOMPSON  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The state attorney general charged a private investigator Wednesday with filing false court documents on behalf of four death row inmates, calling the case one of the largest frauds in California's criminal justice system.
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VAN NUYS, Calif.  - Ten months before his wife was  killed, actor Robert Blake complained that she was an unfit  mother and worked behind the scenes to get custody of the their  daughter, a prosecution witness testified on Friday.
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REDWOOD CITY, California (CNN) -- Scott Peterson&#39;s former mistress, Amber Frey, faces cross-examination Wednesday after jurors heard her break up with her onetime lover and heard Peterson protest his innocence in taped phone calls played in his double ...
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- More tapes have been played Tuesday in Scott Peterson&#39;s murder trial in California of phone conversations with his mistress, Amber Frey.
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A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb asked for a public defender Tuesday in one of her first steps of what's likely to be a long legal journey.
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Defense attorney Lisa McCalmont was well-known nationally as an outspoken critic of lethal injection and amassed a trove of information about problems with the three-drug cocktail that is at the very center of a case the U.S. Supreme Court will hear early next year.
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Kansas City, Mo. -- A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb asked for a public defender Tuesday during a brief court appearance.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Scott Peterson is being prepared by his defense team to possibly take the witness stand in his own defense, according to a Bay Area attorney who said today he spent several hours questioning
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Scott Peterson, left, and attorney Mark Geragos listen during prosecution rebuttal to the defense closing arguments in Redwood City, Calif.
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Scott Peterson's former mistress Amber Frey took the witness stand Monday for her much anticipated cross-examination by Peterson's lawyer, who began with a little kidding around.
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A judge in Compton, Calif., refused to dismiss the case against a man charged with murdering the half-sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
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Defense attorneys for Scott Peterson have begun their counterattack, starting with a concrete expert whose testimony poked holes in a prosecution theory that Peterson used concrete anchors to weigh down the body of his pregnant wife.
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A domestic violence case involving a television evangelist has left some questioning her credibility.
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Prosecutors are to continue presenting their case against a man accused of killing five women in Suffolk.