Accused NY arms dealers wanted green cards: defense
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An Armenian and South African accused of agreeing to smuggle Russian military arms into the United States could barely produce assault rifles and were lured by an FBI informant with the promise of green cards, defense lawyers said in opening arguments on Wednesday.
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NEWARK, N.J.  - Briton Hemant Lakhani was an eager  salesman looking to make millions by selling missiles to  militants who wanted to down U.S. airliners, prosecutors said  in opening arguments of his federal trial on Tuesday.
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A Colombian arms broker was charged with trying to buy &#36;4 million in grenade launchers, machine guns, other high-powered weapons and munitions for a leftist rebel group and promising 2 tons of cocaine as partial payment.
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Citing fears of intimidation, lawyers representing the business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a motion Monday waiving the right to call defense witnesses as their client's fraud and tax evasion trial drags on.
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A confession by the former No. 2 Air  Force arms buyer that she steered contracts to her future  employer, Boeing Co. BA.N, could spur legal challenges to old  contract awards, legal experts said on Monday.
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New Jersey officials trying combat witness intimidation are concerned about cases involving one lawyerâs clients.
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In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.
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Fresh from a victory over its rivals in the Supreme Court, American Express now wants Visa and MasterCard to show it the money. American Express hired hot-shot lawyer David Boies, who headed
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MOSCOW  - Citing fears of intimidation, lawyers representing the business partner of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky filed a motion Monday waiving the right to call defence witnesses as their client's fraud and tax evasion trial drags on.
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Mayor Bloomberg spoke in favor of a bill that would allow the Justice Department to prevent gun purchases from people on the federal government's terror watch lists. The National Rifle Association opposes the measure.
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A New York police officer who shot to  death an unarmed African immigrant acted recklessly, the  prosecutor charged at the start of his manslaughter trial on  Monday, but the defense said the killing was self-defense.
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An Argentine ex-officer on trial in Spain for the deaths of dissidents asks for protection for his family over threats.
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With a former stuntman waiting to testify that Robert Blake solicited him to kill his wife, a defense lawyer suggested in court Thursday that the witness was using illegal drugs at the time he talked to police.
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By Lindsey Nair, The Roanoke Times, Va. Dec. 10--At a time of unprecedented scrutiny, Virginia gun dealers look to at least one group for support: gun buyers.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Federal prosecutors said Tuesday they used a mistaken translation of a key piece of evidence last week in a terror case against two Muslims from Albany, New York.
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By Matt Gryta, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Mar. 8--The attorney for the main suspect in the disappearance of two  elderly Southtowns women complained today about prosecutors using anonymous  "sources" to keep his client jailed on six-figure bail in an unrelated house  burglary.
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LOS ANGELES  - The request: Someone in the U.S. wanted to ship guns to Abu Dhabi. True, they were Hollywood prop guns, but with Abu Dhabi smack dab in the middle of the Middle East, such a request might raise some eyebrows.