Lust, not love affair, the defense insists Packed courtroom hears ...
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Amber Frey was nothing more than Scott Peterson&#39;s good-time girl, and she knew it, a defense lawyer tried to show Monday during the fertilizer salesman&#39;s double-murder trial in Redwood City.
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Men who say they were drugged and raped by an Air Force officer lied to avoid being revealed as gay in the military, a defense attorney told a military jury Tuesday.
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I. Lewis Libby Jr.âs lawyer countered the prosecutorsâ argument that Mr. Libby willfully lied with an emotional defense.
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A chef accused of giving a former partner HIV is challenged over claims that he always had protected sex.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Defense attorneys prodded Scott Peterson's one-time mistress about wiretapped calls between her and the former fertilizer salesman accused of murder, implying she did not fully cooperate with police...
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The defense in the child rape trial of a former priest is focusing on the validity of repressed memory theories, hoping to debunk a key claim of the 27-year-old accuser in the case.
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There's not much middle ground in the legal community when it comes to opinions of local prosecutor Mike Nifong's most famous case.
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Since Andrea Yates first stood trial on charges of drowning three of her five children, the facts of the case haven&#039;t changed. What her defense teams hopes has changed is the public&#039;s view of mentally ill defendants.
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(CBS/AP) Scott Peterson&#39;s defense attorneys now get their chance to state why the former fertilizer salesman should not be found guilty of murdering his wife and unborn son.
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Kobe Bryant's attorneys asked a judge Monday to make sure the NBA star doesn't have to answer questions about other "consensual relationships" as he defends himself against a civil lawsuit accusing him of rape.
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Â· Accused admits having intercourse with corpseÂ· Court hears history of sexually motivated attacks
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Despite the high-stakes legal tussle between prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Michael Jackson child molestation case, the public still doesn't know specifically what the two sides lately are arguing about.
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Lawyers in the Michael Jackson case  argue whether evidence should be discussed in an open court.
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Mark Geragos, Scott Peterson&#39;s attorney, may have promised jurors more than he could deliver, critics argue. ( AP/Tony Avelar, Pool).
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The defense blames any inconsistencies in his accounts on memory blur rather than an intent to deceive.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge said yesterday that she would not immediately dismiss charges against four men accused of distributing steroids to top athletes.
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EAGLE, Colo. -- In pressing on with her civil suit against NBA star Kobe Bryant, the woman accusing him of rape will not have to meet the higher standard of proof required in a criminal case.