Appeal court raises rape terms
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A teenage rapist and his friend have detention terms extended by the Appeal Court, which criticises the sentencing judge.
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A state appeals court Tuesday overturned the most serious kidnapping convictions against a man who was accused of taking his two children to terrorize his ex-wife and has since confessed to killing them.
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A New Delhi court on Monday suspended the extradition to Britain of a suspect wanted for the rape and murder of a teenage girl after his lawyers lodged an appeal.
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In the first case of its kind in the UK, a woman is suing a hospital for allegedly infecting her with the MRSA virus.
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The sports world&#39;s highest court has received three new appeals involving medals in gymnastics, weightlifting and track and field awarded at last month&#39;s Athens Olympics.
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A failed asylum seeker convicted of rape is to be awarded damages after being unlawfully detained in prison.
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that criminal sentences within guidelines set by a federal commission are generally entitled to be upheld on appeal, a decision that limits legal options for defendants who feel that they have been punished too harshly.
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The Supreme Court made it harder Monday to recover legal fees from the government, ruling against a woman who sued for the right to form a peace sign in the nude in a Florida park.
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The federal appeals court in Atlanta gave a big boost Wednesday to a lawsuit by nearly 900,000 doctors against the managed health care industry.
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A woman who claims she was wrongly convicted of killing two of her babies is given leave to appeal.
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Lawyers for Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton file an appeal against his six murder convictions.
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A woman who told police she had been raped was jailed for two days after officers found an old warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest.
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A Bahamian man who is to be flogged 10 times with a whip for raping a 6-year-old girl will appeal that part of his sentence, his lawyer said Monday.
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Two men jailed for life for killing rival drug dealers will have their case heard in the Court of Appeal.
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The High Court rules against part of an appeal by a pub landlady who showed foreign feeds of live English football.
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LONDON A British television host who says she was groped by Governor Schwarzenegger four years ago can take legal action in a British court.
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The Utah Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal on whether a woman accused in the 2002 abduction of then-14-year-old Elizabeth Smart may be forcibly medicated in the hope she may become mentally fit to stand trial.