3 acquitted in Chicago club stampede
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A judge on Friday acquitted a business owner, manager and promoter accused of manslaughter in a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people. In his ruling, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter agreed with defense attorneys that prosecutors had failed to show the men played any role in causing the tragedy.
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One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicagoâs Sears Tower was acquitted, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group blamed for killing some 3,000 people, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.
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People injured in a nightclub fire are helped outside the nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 31, 2004. The fire swept through the crowded nightclub, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 200, police said Friday.
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One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked.
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Three Asian men are found guilty of murdering a black IT worker during a riot in Birmingham last year.
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Former basketball star Calvin Murphy was acquitted on Monday by a Houston jury of sexually abusing five of his daughters. Murphy, 56, had denied the charges that he had abused the five
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Three more people die in Argentina as a result of last week's nightclub fire, bringing the total to 186.
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One of seven indigent men charged with plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago as part of an Islamic jihad was acquitted on Thursday, and a mistrial was declared in the prosecution of the six others.
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Port-au-Prince  A jury acquitted former paramilitary leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain of murder charges on Tuesday after a 14-hour trial that angered human-rights groups who blamed the country&#39;s US-backed government.
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Three men who have been linked to the Irish republican movement were sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday by a top Colombian court that overturned their acquittal for training leftist guerrillas in ...
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Alleged mafia boss Joey 'the Clown' Lombardo and four others go on trial in the US city of Chicago.
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A federal jury in Chicago acquitted two men yesterday of charges that they were part of a long-running conspiracy to finance Hamas activities in Israel -- marking the latest defeat for the Justice Department in cases involving support for radical Palestinian groups.
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All 19 managers and consultants accused in the collapse of former national carrier Swissair were acquitted Thursday.
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A former stripper and her lover were acquitted Tuesday of murdering casino heir Ted Binion, who prosecutors say was drugged and suffocated in a plot to steal his fortune of buried silver.
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Two Italian mobsters, a bodyguard, a  financier and his girlfriend were acquitted on Wednesday of the  1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, found hanging from a London  bridge and known as &quot;God&#39;s banker&quot; for his Vatican links.
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A man who plowed his sports-utility   vehicle into a crowd of Super Bowl revelers in Boston in 2004,   killing a 21-year-old man, was convicted on Friday of   involuntary manslaughter.