Dando killer wins right to appeal
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Barry George, killer of TV presenter Jill Dando, has won the right to a new appeal, the BBC understands.
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A man acquitted of murder 15 years ago admits his guilt after a legal change allows him to be retried.
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A Chilean appeals court ruled Monday that murder charges against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in a major human rights case filed this month can move forward.
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The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh has had his life jail sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A woman convicted of murder and given a life sentence in the stabbing death of a teenage rival lost a new bid for freedom Tuesday in her long-running appeals battle.
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Michael Stone, the killer of Dr Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, loses his appeal against his conviction for their murders.
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The brother-in-law and wife of the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury have been granted an appeal against their conviction for the 2004 murder of the British aristocrat in Cannes, court officials said Wednesday.
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Â· Bereaved mothers win right to have appeal heard Â· Petition drafted by two leading human rights QCs
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A federal appeals court Tuesday lifted a reprieve that had blocked the scheduled execution of a man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence.
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A member of the gang who kicked to death Garry Newlove may appeal against his conviction, his solicitor says.
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Two men jailed for life for killing rival drug dealers will have their case heard in the Court of Appeal.
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The outback drifter convicted of killing British tourist Peter Falconio has launched an appeal against his life sentence for one of Australia's most notorious murders.
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A Libyan man jailed for the 1988 bombing of a US airliner over Lockerbie won the right to a new appeal Thursday, after a judicial panel said he may have been wrongly convicted.
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The man serving a life sentence for the murders of a mother and her daughter is to begin his second bid at the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction.
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A man found guilty of killing a Welsh tourist at a railway station in France has his jail term reduced by 10 years on appeal.
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Nicaraguan prosecutors on Wednesday filed an appeal to the country's Supreme Court to overturn the acquittal of a U.S. man on charges of killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend, blocking efforts to win his release.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the death sentence of a dual U.S.-British citizen convicted of killing a 2-year-old girl by starting a fire in his ex-girlfriend's apartment building, casting doubt on the evidence against him.