Lawyer Says Confession in Linda Stein Homicide Was Coerced
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The woman accused of killing Linda S. Stein, the punk rock manager turned Fifth Avenue real estate broker, was coerced into confessing and should be released on bail, her lawyer said.
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Threatened with jail if she didn't testify, a former attorney for music producer Phil Spector agreed Thursday to tell the jury at his murder trial about evidence allegedly withheld by a defense expert.
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A defence lawyer for actor Robert Blake, accused of murdering his wife, says new evidence links someone else to the killing.
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VAN NUYS, Calif.  - Lawyers in the murder trial of  actor Robert Blake took turns on Friday pretending to be  Blake's wife as a crime scene analyst demonstrated the killer's  position when Bonny Lee Bakley was fatally shot.
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Lawyers for the killer of a Strabane woman have told a court DNA evidence used to link him to his victim is now "questionable".
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A lawyer who believed that prosecutors had committed misconduct stayed silent for 10 years due to ethics rules.
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A lawyer who stabbed his neighbor to death because he thought the man had molested his 2-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter.
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A prosecutor set to deliver her opening statement in the slaying of a multimillionaire investment banker instead stunned a packed courtroom Wednesday, alleging the defendant had threatened her children, tried to tamper with a juror and admitted committing the crime.
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A defense lawyer came forward and admitted he is the person who leaked an FBI videotape to a TV reporter now facing jail time for protecting the source, court papers filed Wednesday said.
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A federal prosecutor told jurors Thursday that a woman violated an expectant mother in the "most wicked way possible" when she strangled her in December 2004 and cut her baby from her womb.
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A murder charge filed this year based on DNA tests unavailable when the victim was strangled in 1980 is being dropped because more testing made the case difficult to prove, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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A US criminal defense lawyer helped her militant Muslim client smuggle messages out of prison that called for violence including the slaughter of Jews everywhere, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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A lawyer accused of aiding terrorism  through her defense of a militant Muslim cleric was portrayed  on Tuesday as a fervent advocate who believed her client was  wrongly convicted of a plot to bomb U.S. targets.
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A mother who admitted killing her baby daughter by severing the girl's arms was guided by a Bible passage in which Jesus refers to cutting off body parts to cast away sin, the woman's attorney said Tuesday.
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: The lead attorney defending an accused helper of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots at his Hamburg retrial was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, his office said today, throwing into question how the trial will proceed.
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A woman who spent about two years in prison for the stabbing death of her 10-year-old son was acquitted at her retrial Wednesday, after the defense insisted the murder was carried out by a masked intruder, possibly a Texas death-row inmate who has confessed.
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he Suffolk County district attorney disclosed yesterday that he had prior ties as a private lawyer to two prominent figures that have cropped up in the reopening of the 1988 murders of Seymour and Arlene Tankleff.