Ex-Priest's Lawyer Wants Charges Tossed
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A lawyer for defrocked priest Paul Shanley asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss rape and indecent assault charges against his client after one of his accusers failed to appear in court.
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U.S. lawyers for a former altar boy plan to grill Mexico's top Roman Catholic clergyman next month as part of an effort to sue him in a California court over claims he protected a suspected pedophile priest.
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Lawyers for Osama bin Laden's former driver asked a U.S. military tribunal to dismiss charges against him Thursday, arguing that his alleged offenses weren't established to be war crimes at the time they were committed.
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An outspoken human rights lawyer faced charges of inciting subversion, but his lawyer and his family were prevented from attending the trial, his lawyer said.
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District Attorney Mark Hurlbert said he filed the motion to dismiss the criminal case Wednesday because Bryant&#39;s 20-year-old accuser was no longer willing to testify.
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A news report that a cardinal threatened doctors who performed an abortion with excommunication sparked controversy Wednesday and a denial from the prelate.
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The case turns on the question of when evidence gathered by the police in a wrongful arrest must be thrown out.
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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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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - A Roman Catholic priest accused of ordering the slaughter of 2,000 people who sought refuge in his church during Rwanda's genocide insisted his slain parishioners were in his prayers Monday, as his lawyer dismissed the charges against his client as "rumours."
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The defense in the child rape trial of a former priest is focusing on the validity of repressed memory theories, hoping to debunk a key claim of the 27-year-old accuser in the case.
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FAIRFAX, Va. -- Lawyers for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad asked a judge to throw out charges against him, saying prosecuting him again violates his right against being tried twice for the same offense.
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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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Two detectives who investigated one man's sexual abuse claims against a now-defrocked priest testified that they found evidence of other victims &#151; an accusation that drew howls from defense attorneys.
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By Greg Frost  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - The defense attorney for Paul  Shanley, the defrocked U.S. Catholic priest accused of child  rape, said Thursday there was "massive doubt" about what  occurred two decades ago and called for the jury to acquit him.
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Cardinal Norberto Rivera, Mexico's most senior Roman Catholic clergyman, will be questioned by lawyers and may have to appear in a U.S. court over accusations he protected a priest wanted for sexually abusing children, Rivera's spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The lawyer for the man who stabbed Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh to death last year asked the Supreme Court to quash an earlier murder verdict and convict his client of manslaughter instead.
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The criminal case against a defrocked Roman Catholic priest at the center of the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal now hinges on the allegations of a single accuser.