Inmate recants Teena Brandon story
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One of two men convicted in the 1993 murder of Teena Brandon and two others that spawned the movie "Boys Don't Cry" now says he was the only attacker who shot and stabbed them.
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A teenager who survived what is thought to be a suicide pact in which her friend died has begun talking about what happened.
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To a prosecutor, Ashley Reeves is nothing short of a miracle. More than a year ago, the teenager was found in the woods of a city park, where an assailant had left her for dead after snapping her neck. She couldn't move. Her breathing was shallow, her eyes glassy. On Friday, after months of grueling rehab learning how to swallow, talk and move her head and arms again, the 18-year-old Reeves watched the man who caused her ordeal get punished.
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Three times during his nearly 27 years in prison, Charles Chatman went before a parole board and refused to admit he was a rapist. His steadfastness was vindicated Thursday, when a judge released him because of new DNA evidence showing he indeed wasn't. The release of Chatman, 47, added to Dallas County's nationally unmatched number of wrongfully convicted inmates.
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Police investigating the death of Essex teenager Dinah McNicol question a man jailed for a murder in Scotland.
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A Leeds man released from a Pakistani jail after 18 years on death row talks about his experiences.
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ATLANTA, June 11 â A Georgia Superior Court judge today ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, who has served two years of 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with another teenager at a party when he was 17. Prosecutors said they would appeal the order.
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A former gang member could face life in prison for a jewelry heist that resembled robberies he described in a memoir about gang life.
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A convicted murderer who escaped from prison guards during a hospital appointment is recaptured.
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A prison inmate has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women in Los Angeles. Chester Dwayne Turner, 37, is serving time for a 2002 rape charge.
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LAUREL, Miss. - Jones County authorities are crediting two inmates with thwarting the escape attempt of a third. Sheriff Larry Dykes said a trusty at the jail, Danny Lamar Odom, 47, bolted Thursday from a work crew toward a field behind the jail.
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Texas death row inmate Frances Newton, 39, smiles during an interview at the Mountain View Unit near Gatesville, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2004.
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The case of Genarlow Wilson, now serving a 10-year mandatory prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as a teen, is just the latest to make the state's attorney general the target of protests.
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A prison inmate who implicated a former Los Angeles Police Department officer in the murder of Notorious B.I.G. says he lied about the officer's involvement, a move that provides another twist in a complex and unsolved killing.
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Questions are raised about the mental state of the prison's senior officer just before the abuses there
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At her lowest moments during more than three months in solitary confinement in Iran's most notorious prison, Haleh Esfandiari wondered if anyone remembered her or if she had been swallowed without the world noticing.
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When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined that the judge would punish her &#151; and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.