NY millionaires' slavery trial opens
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A pair of Indonesian women brought to the United States to work as housekeepers were starved, deprived of sleep and repeatedly stabbed and beaten by a millionaire couple, prosecutors said Monday at the couple's trial.
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The first criminal trial involving former executives of the now infamous energy company, Enron, begins today in a case that could have a crucial bearing on future trials of the company&#39;s top officials.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A federal judge refused to grant bail to a millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their mansion for five years, finding that no conditions would be suitable for house arrest.  Last month, U.S.
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The trial of an Afghan man charged with torture and kidnapping in Afghanistan begins at the Old Bailey on Friday.
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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk during a 10-day period in 2006 is due to begin.
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Three people who allegedly sent America Online customers millions of junk e-mail messages touting penny stocks and other Internet gimmicks went on trial Tuesday in the nation&#39;s first such felony case.
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Before a packed courtroom, the scion of one of Kenya's most celebrated aristocratic British settler families, has gone on trial for the murder of a Kenyan man.
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Fallen press baron Conrad Black goes on  trial this week in Chicago, insisting that charges of pilfering  $84 million in proceeds from his crumbling media empire  represent the persecution of the powerful.
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As the first criminal trial stemming from the financial deals at Enron opens, it will be notable as much for who is not among the six defendants as who is.
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The first criminal trial against any former Enron Corp. employees is scheduled to begin today in Houston. The case is against two ex-Enron workers and four former Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.
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The first criminal trial stemming from accounting fraud at Enron Corp, which has just started, will test claims that Wall Street executives contributed to the crime that drove the former energy trader into bankruptcy.
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The first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina gets under way this week.
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Nearly three years after Enron Corp.'s  dramatic collapse into bankruptcy, the first criminal trial  against the disgraced energy company's former employees is set  to kick off on Monday.
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Chicago's biggest mob trial in years started Thursday with a prosecutor urging the jury to forget what they know about movie mobsters and see the now-elderly defendants for who they are: men who "committed brutal crimes on behalf of the Chicago Outfit."
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A trial has begun of 12 people accused of involvement in a slave labour scandal in northern China.
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The Miami trial of seven men accused of plotting to blow up U.S. government and commercial buildings opened on Tuesday with the removal of a waist-high curtain designed to hide the suspected terrorists' leg shackles.
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The corruption trial of former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma begins in Pietermaritzburg.