Race case teen's conviction tossed
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An appeals court Friday vacated the remaining conviction of a teenager accused in a violent, racially charged incident in Jena, Louisiana, his attorney said. Mychal Bell and five others were initially charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit attempted murder in connection with the beating of a white student.
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A black teenager whose prosecution over the beating of a white classmate in a Louisiana school prompted a big civil rights protest walked free from court on bail last night after a prosecutor dropped an attempt to try him on adult charges.
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TOWANDA, Pa. - A high school graduate was sentenced to up to two years in jail for streaking the graduation ceremony from which he had been excluded...
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Police in Australia are cleared of blame for the death of Thomas Hickey, 17, which sparked race riots.
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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 16-year-old girl has lost her case against her school after she was banned from wearing a "purity ring" in class.
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Prosecutors dismissed the case against the three main suspects in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway
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A black man accused of killing a white teen during a racially charged confrontation outside his home was convicted of second-degree manslaughter Saturday.
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A Harvard University graduate student was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for stabbing a teenage father to death with a knife he said he used in self-defense during a fight started by the victim.
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WARREN, Ohio - A jury convicted a former police chief on Thursday on 18 misdemeanor charges for paddling teenage boys stopped for minor traffic violations.
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A 16-year-old cancer patient 's legal fight ended in victory Wednesday when his family's attorneys and social services officials reached an agreement that would allow him to forgo chemotherapy.
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A man whose murder conviction was based on gruesome sketches he made as a 15-year-old boy was freed from prison on Tuesday after DNA evidence from the body was found to match the victim's ex-boyfriend and not the convicted man.
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A Canadian court handed down a rare conviction to a white supremacist for posting hate material on the Internet, police here said Tuesday.
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A Louisiana appeals court ruled it was too early to consider a motion to release an black teenager who allegedly took part in beating up a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, last year.
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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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The US Supreme Court rules that the race of a child cannot be used to determine the school he or she goes to.
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A U.S. jury on Friday found former media mogul Conrad Black guilty of multiple counts of criminal fraud and a single count of obstruction of justice but acquitted him of a racketeering charge.