N.C. court upholds novelist's conviction
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The State Court of Appeals refused Tuesday to overturn the murder conviction of novelist Michael Peterson, who was found guilty of bludgeoning his wife to death in their home in 2001.
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British historian David Irving has his conviction for denying the Holocaust upheld by the Austrian Supreme Court.
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By Julia Oliver, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 5--Union County has asked a court to uphold its growth-control ordinance in response to a developer's suit challenging its legality.
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent  author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of  expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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A federal appeals court upheld the conviction of E. Kirk Shelton, the former vice president of the Cendant Corporation.
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An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a two-year prison term for one of Algeria's best known journalists in a case seen by many as a pretext to crush press freedom in this North African country.
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The Santiago Court of Appeals yesterday unanimously upheld the indictment and house arrest of General Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator, on human rights charges.
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A US woman who drowned her five children has had her murder convictions quashed on appeal.
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An appeals court on Monday upheld the indictment and house arrest of Gen. Augusto Pinochet on murder and kidnapping charges during his rule, rejecting an appeal to stop the case because of the former dictator's health.
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A federal appeals court upheld a stay  of execution for convicted serial killer Michael Ross on  Tuesday, sending his case back to a lower court to determine if  a public defender may intervene on his behalf.
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Court of appeal quashes conviction of Royal Navy rating jailed for rape of female colleague.
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Five have convictions quashed after judges conclude that reading Islamist material was not illegal
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An Alabama appeals court Friday unanimously upheld ex-Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry's murder conviction and life sentences for a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls in Birmingham.
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A divided appeals court Wednesday overturned the conviction and death sentence of a man condemned for killing and beheading his common-law wife's three children.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday  upheld a stay of execution for convicted serial killer Michael  Ross and sent his case back to a lower federal court to  determine if a public defender may intervene in the process.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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The Supreme Court unanimously reinstated a Nevada child molester's conviction Wednesday in a decision that continued the justices' refusal to apply recent rulings on criminal procedure to older cases.