DA Won&#39;t Prosecute Bishop Accused of Rape
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Sept. 27, 2004 - A district attorney said Monday that he would not prosecute Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Dupre on child rape charges because the statute of limitations has expired in the case.
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A military judge on Monday rejected a motion to dismiss charges against the suspected ringleader of abuses at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison after lawyers questioned whether he could get a fair trial.
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Attorneys for basketball star Kobe Bryant asked a judge to dismiss a rape charge against their client, arguing prosecutors did not disclose that one of their expert witnesses had information that could help Bryant.
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Lawyers for a key suspect in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal failed to persuade a US military judge yesterday to bar evidence gained from the defendant&#39;s computer, which the defense argued may have been improperly obtained by investigators.
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Prosecutors told a judge Thursday that an alleged victim of defrocked priest Paul Shanley might refuse to testify if he is publicly identified during the upcoming sexual abuse trial. That would mean the end of the criminal case against one of the most notorious figures in the Boston Archdiocese's sex scandal, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Rooney said.
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EAGLE, Colo. - The sexual assault charge against Kobe Bryant has been dropped, but his accuser - whose reluctance to participate derailed the criminal trial before it ever really got started - isn't letting the NBA star off the hook just yet...
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SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts A bishop from Massachusetts was indicted on child rape charges, accused of molesting two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor said Monday.
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An attorney for a Naval Academy quarterback accused of rape urged military jurors Tuesday not to make the midshipman &quot;a poster child for crimes he didn&#039;t commit.&quot;
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DENVER -- Kobe Bryant&#39;s attorneys asked a judge Monday to make sure the Los Angeles Lakers star doesn&#39;t have to answer questions about other &quot;consensual relationships&quot; as he defends himself against a civil lawsuit accusing him of rape.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Sept. 28, 2004 - Former Springfield Bishop Thomas Dupre won&#39;t have to answer to charges in Massachusetts that he molested two boys in the 1970s, but the legal problems for the one-time
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EAGLE, Colo. - The sheriff and prosecutor in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case defended how the case was handled, and said they were disappointed it never went to trial...
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The presiding judge in the church trial of a Methodist minister who declared she is a lesbian in a committed relationship ruled Wednesday that the cleric&#39;s defense could not call witnesses who would challenge the denomination&#39;s ban on sexually active gay
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A new round of tests found no evidence that two women who accuse a former U.S. Naval Academy football player of sexual assault were given a date-rape drug, his lawyer said Thursday.
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A judge on Friday dismissed charges of attempted sexual assault against three men accused of trying to dig up a woman's body to have sex with the corpse, noting that Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia.
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Bishop Thomas Dupre, the former head of the Springfield Diocese, was indicted Monday on child rape charges, accused of molesting two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor said. He becomes the first Roman Catholic prelate indicted in the sex abuse scandal within the American church.
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No charges will be filed against Portland Trail Blazers forward Zach Randolph in connection with a sexual assault report taken by police last month, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schrunk said.
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The dismissal of charges against a Catholic bishop raises issues from statutes of limitations to a cultural shift.