Kennedy Cousin Skakel Appeals Conviction
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Lawyers for Michael Skakel argue that the Kennedy cousin convicted of bludgeoning a 15-year-old neighbor when he was a teen should be set free because authorities waited too long to prosecute him.
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Kuwait's highest court of appeal overturned the conviction of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner on Tuesday, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.
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An appeals court on Tuesday upheld the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian citizen once held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, the man's lawyer said. The man was not convicted of any alleged extremist activities in Afghanistan.
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LONDON -- A former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, "may have suffered a miscarriage of justice" and should be granted a new appeal, a Scottish judicial panel ruled yester day.
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An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence against Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as "Chemical Ali" for masterminding a genocidal campaign against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.
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Nicaraguan prosecutors on Wednesday filed an appeal to the country's Supreme Court to overturn the acquittal of a U.S. man on charges of killing his Nicaraguan girlfriend, blocking efforts to win his release.
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In a bid to win a new trial, attorneys for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel submitted a three-year-old videotaped interview Wednesday of a man who implicated two friends in a 1975 murder that sent Skakel to prison.
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a longtime immigration advocate, made a personal plea to save the legislation in which he and others had invested months.
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MIAMI, Jan. 30 -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a key terrorism charge, the only one carrying a potential sentence of life in prison, against suspected al-Qaeda operative Jose Padilla.
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James Traficant, a flamboyant former  congressman, lost an appeal on Monday seeking U.S. Supreme  Court review of his conviction on corruption charges and of his  eight-year prison sentence.
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Influential conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh plans to appeal a Florida appeals court ruling that Palm Beach County prosecutors acted properly when they seized his medical records during a drug investigation.
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WASHINGTON - Assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian lost a Supreme Court appeal on Monday in his bid to win freedom after five years in prison.
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An appeals court said that evidence at the trial did not justify the guilty verdicts.
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(CBS/AP) William Kennedy Smith, who was acquitted more than a decade ago of sexual assault, is being sued in civil court by a former personal assistant who alleges the Kennedy cousin raped her in 1999.
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TRIPOLI -- Libya's Supreme Court will rule in July on an appeal by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV in a trial that has affected Tripoli's ties with the West. "The case is reserved for a verdict on July 11," the judge, Fathi Dhan, told the court yesterday. The five Bulgarian nurses and a ...
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Edward M. Kennedy placed the aura of his familyâs name around the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.
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William Kennedy Smith, who was acquitted more than a decade ago of sexual assault, has been sued in civil court by a former personal assistant who alleges the Kennedy cousin raped her in 1999.