Teen's conviction tossed in La. beating
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A state appeals court on Friday threw out the only remaining conviction against one of the black teenagers accused in the beating of a white schoolmate in the racially tense north Louisiana town of Jena.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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A federal judge threw out the conviction of Kevin A. Howard, citing a ruling in a similar case in which the juryâs verdict was vacated.
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A judge threw out a teenager's conspiracy conviction in the alleged beating of a white student by a group of black schoolmates, but the teen's battery conviction still stands.
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It's game over for The Game. The rapper was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail after pleading no contest to felony possession of a firearm in a school zone. Two other counts were dismissed under a plea agreement, the district attorney's office said.
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A 17-year-old was sentenced Monday to 90 years in prison for an hours-long attack on a boy who was beaten, kicked, stomped, burned and sodomized with the plastic pole of a patio umbrella.
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By Julia Reynolds, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 13--Juries are prejudiced by seeing defendants wearing prison garb and shackles, the Sixth District Court of Appeals said Tuesday in its reversal of a 26-year sentence handed down in Monterey County Superior Court.
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MIAMI - A teen whose life sentence in the beating death of a 6-year-old playmate was thrown out on appeal went before a judge yesterday on charges he violated his probation by walking around late at night with a pocket knife.
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A 16-year-old girl whose parents thought she had run away from home returned with a much different story: She had been repeatedly beaten and raped by a man for four years, one of which she spent captive in his basement. John Paule France Gonzales, 22, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 142 counts, including lewd and lascivious acts on a child, sodomy and penetration with a foreign object.
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A Georgia man, who served 17 years in  prison for rape and robbery, was freed on Tuesday, one week  after DNA evidence showed he had been wrongly convicted of the  crime.
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A Duke University lacrosse player charged with raping an exotic dancer during a team party was convicted of a misdemeanor Tuesday in a separate assault last year on a bar patron.
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The man convicted of killing Southern Californiaâs Ryan Francis was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. Louisiana District Judge Richard Moore III also sentenced the killer, 20-year-old DeAnthony Ford, to 10 years for aggravated battery in a shooting two days before the one that killed Francis.Francis, 19, was in Baton Rouge visiting his mother when he was shot and killed while riding in a car on May 13, 2006. Francis was the starting point guard for U.S.C. his freshman year.
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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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Lionel Tate, the teen who walked out of prison eight months ago after his life sentence for the killing of a 6-year-old playmate was overturned, was arrested on charges of violating his probation.
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A judge dismisses weapons possession charges against US rap star Fabolous.
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Two police officers involved in a  videotaped beating of a black teenager that sparked nationwide  outrage have been awarded $2.4 million by a Los Angeles jury  that found they were unfairly disciplined.
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The Supreme Court of Georgia today ordered Genarlow Wilson's release from prison, ruling that his sentence on  a teen sex conviction was cruel and unusual punishment. Wilson received 10 years in prison after being convicted of having oral sex with a consenting 15-year-old girl when he was 17.