Child Rape Trial of Ex-Priest Opens in Massachusetts
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - The lawyer for defrocked  priest Paul Shanley derided his accuser's memory on Tuesday as  arguments began in a child rape case at the heart of the U.S.  Catholic Church abuse scandal.
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A Senate impeachment trial opened Wednesday against Nevada Controller Kathy Augustine, with a prosecutor describing how state employees turned her office into "campaign central" during her 2002 re-election bid.
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A 49-year-old man accused of murdering five women in Suffolk in 2006 appears in court ahead of his trial.
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The landmark trial of a foreign national accused of a crime that occurred outside Britain opened Friday against an Afghan warlord accused of conspiring to kidnap and torture in his homeland.
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The Thick of It actor Chris Langham goes on trial in Maidstone today charged with a number of sex offences. By Jason Deans and agencies.
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A former member of the La Salle men&#39;s basketball will stand trial on a rape charge after a former member of the women&#39;s team testified he had sex with her last year while she was asleep.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Bishop Thomas Dupre, the former head of the Springfield Diocese, was indicted on child rape charges, accused of molesting two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor said Monday...
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The landmark trial of a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest accused of supervising the massacre of 2,000 of his Tutsi parishioners during the country&#39;s 1994 genocide opened in his absence on Monday.
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A jury was seated Thursday to hear the child-rape case against defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the most notorious figures in the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal.
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The trial of a man accused of murdering 29 people in the 1998  Omagh bomb blast -- the worst single terrorist atrocity in the troubled history of Northern Ireland -- is set to begin.
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A court convicts an ex-priest of raping a boy in the 1980s in a scandal which has shaken the Church in Boston.
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Kobe Bryant's trial began Friday with 300 prospective jurors arriving at the county courthouse to fill out questionnaires, the first step toward choosing 12 people who will decide whether the NBA star is guilty of rape.
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A former Massachusetts bishop charged with raping two children in the 1970s will not be prosecuted because the statue of limitations has expired, prosecutors said on Monday.
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The former Catholic bishop of Springfield, Mass., was indicted Monday on charges of raping two boys during the 1970s, becoming the highest-ranking official of the American church
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The trial is set to begin of a polygamist sect leader on charges he coerced a 14-year-old girl into marriage.
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Nearly three years after suitcases full of body parts washed up along Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, a nurse who helped infertile women conceive is to go on trial this week on charges that she killed and dismembered her husband.
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It was a case that showed all the difficulties of prosecuting child sexual abuse cases in the American courts. Yesterday morning, a grand jury indictment was unsealed charging retired Massachusetts