Jury Selected in Murder Trial: 2004 Barfight Ended in Shooting
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 14--GULFPORT -- A jury of seven men and five women will decide the future of Juan Jackriel Jones, who went on trial this week for murder in the fatal shooting of another man after they argued in a Gulfport bar in 2004.
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One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen "when a big black guy beats up on a small woman."
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Jurors decide a man shot dead by police while carrying a lighter shaped like a gun was lawfully killed.
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For one hot, bloody weekend in July, it was like old times in the nation's former murder capital. Eleven people died violent deaths over a 48-hour period. One was a hospital worker gunned down by muggers near Chinatown. Another was shot and killed in a drug-related dispute.
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Prospective jurors in the trial of the co-owner of a Rhode Island nightclub, where a fire killed 100, were told the trial could last three or four months.  One hundred nine people appeared in Kent County Courthouse, the first of four groups over two days.
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Rafe Banks, a lawyer in Georgia, got involved in a nasty dispute with a client over how to defend him on a drunken-driving charge. The client, David Milum, fired Banks and demanded that the lawyer refund a $3,000 fee. Banks refused.
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By CLIFF BRUNT INDIANAPOLIS - Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers fired a gun in the air, apparently in self-defense, outside a strip club early Friday after he was slugged in the mouth and struck by a car that sent him tumbling onto the hood, police said.
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The city's biggest mob trial in years went to the jury Thursday after prosecutors made a last pitch to sway jurors to believe the testimony of their star witness, an admitted hit man.
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A jury was sworn in on Wednesday  for the murder trial of U.S. actor Robert Blake, more than  3-1/2 years after his wife was found shot to death in his car.
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Jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial heard for the first time that the actor may have been afraid of an unidentified killer. They also got their first glimpse of the long-nosed, World War II-era revolver used to kill the actor's wife.
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Jury selection got under way Tuesday in the city's biggest organized crime trial in years, a racketeering conspiracy case that includes at least 18 slayings, among them a killing that inspired a character in the movie "Casino."
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A former Louisville police detective was acquitted of murder, manslaughter and reckless homicide Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a teenage drug suspect that stoked racial tensions in the city.
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A man accused of killing dozens of people and keeping count of his victims on a chessboard paced back and forth inside a glass cage as a jury was selected Thursday at the start of his murder trial.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- A judge's decision to keep a stymied jury deliberating for 12 hours just days before Christmas could be grounds to overturn a manslaughter verdict against a black man convicted of shooting a white teenager, criminal defense lawyers said Wednesday.
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Lawyers re-create their version of the killing scene for the jury in the murder trial of actor Robert Blake.
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BISBEE, Arizona  - A jury found a rancher responsible for holding a Mexican-American family at gunpoint in a civil trial in a small Arizona town on Wednesday in what their attorney said was a historic victory over vigilantism.
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It was a dramatic end to a trial that pitted Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis against two respected surgeons: a juror collapsed, the doctors rushed to his aid and the judge declared a mistrial.