Fla. senator's theft conviction tossed
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A state appeals court overturned a theft conviction against state Sen. Gary Siplin on Friday, saying a jury wrongly convicted him of having an employee do campaign work on state time.
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A military jury acquitted a Marine major of assault and battery Wednesday in connection with the death of an Iraqi prisoner, but found him guilty of two lesser counts.
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DETROIT - A federal judge yesterday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.
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A judge dismisses weapons possession charges against US rap star Fabolous.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by the financier Ronald O. Perelman, who asked the court to restore a $1.58 billion verdict against the investment bank Morgan Stanley.
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The Nevada Senate convicted the state controller of using state equipment for her 2002 reelection campaign but dismissed two other counts that could have led to her removal from office.
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Prosecutors dropped murder charges Tuesday against a Texas man who spent 17 years on death row for a crime he may not have committed.
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Acting at the request of prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday threw out the terrorism charges against two men convicted last year in a case once hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror.
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A longtime congressman who voted for the Iraq war but later said he regretted the decision was defeated Tuesday by a well-funded Republican state senator.
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The Court of Appeals of Virginia upheld yesterday what is believed to be the first conviction in the nation under a state anti-spamming law that makes it a felony to send unsolicited mass e-mails.
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In initial versions of a July 3 story about President Bush's commutation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence, The Associated Press erroneously described the conviction. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice, not conspiracy.
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The Senate defeated an amendment that would have stripped immunity from companies that aided government wiretapping.
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Julie Amero's guilty verdict is set aside following new evidence that a police computer expert provided fishy testimony.
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Two men accused of furnishing money and fresh recruits to the militant Palestinian group Hamas were acquitted by a federal jury Thursday of racketeering but convicted on lesser charges.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A once-powerful state senator at the center of a corruption scandal was sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking payoffs from the health care industry.
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The acquittal dealt a sharp setback to federal prosecutors in the case against the private detective Anthony Pellicano.
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BANGKOK: A Thai criminal court yesterday found a former Australian diplomat and his American business partner guilty of distributing pornography but freed them on suspended sentences, court officials said.