U.S. Attorney Calls Noose Display 'Hate Crime,' Explains Lack of Charges
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Under a barrage of questions from House Judiciary Committee members, a federal prosecutor said yesterday that the hanging of nooses at a high school in Jena, La., constituted a hate crime but that charges were not brought because the students allegedly responsible were juveniles.
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Authorities said Monday that they have identified several suspects but made no arrests as they probed a possible business feud behind a bombing that killed at least
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One of several white people charged in the suspected kidnapping, torture and sexual assault of a black woman has been indicted on a hate crime count, and two others have entered guilty pleas in the case.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 15 -- Durham District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, the embattled prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, took the stand Friday to defend himself against ethics charges and acknowledged that he had violated the legal profession's rules of conduct by making inflammatory public...
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Prosecutors do not have to prove race  played no role in seeking the death penalty against the truck  driver charged in the nation's deadliest human smuggling  disaster, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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A spate of crimes in which Jews have been harassed with swastikas and blacks with nooses may be the work of copycats in the wake of some highly publicized cases, police said on Thursday.
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- A black man who invoked images of lynch mobs in explaining why he killed a white teenager has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter because a jury rejected defense lawyers' arguments that his actions were justified.
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Prosecutors in Scott Peterson's murder trial sought Tuesday to counter defense claims that police were so eager to charge their client with his wife's killing that they ignored other credible tips.
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Â· Death not natural causes, pathologist tells inquest   Â· Nobody charged despite police murder inquiry
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VANCOUVER (CP) - A six-year sentence given to a man described as the ringleader in the beating death of a gay man drew criticism Tuesday from the man's family and the city's gay community, which wanted the case treated as a hate crime.
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U.S. prosecutors acknowledged on  Tuesday possible flaws in a key piece of evidence in their case  against two leaders of an Albany, New York, mosque accused of  supporting terrorism, The New York Times said on Wednesday.
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Government prosecutors rested their terrorism case against a civil rights attorney and two others by invoking references to Osama bin Laden, anti-American hatred and Sept. 11, drawing immediate protests from the defense.
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Authorities are investigating whether an arson spree at a new housing development in a Washington suburb was a racist hate crime, since many of the homeowners are black, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
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The prosecutor who questioned why federal authorities would take an interest in a suspected dog-fighting case possibly involving Michael Vick sounded a conciliatory tone Friday and said there would be "parallel investigations."
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A key piece of evidence used to arrest and detain a mosque leader accused of supporting terrorism has come into question, with federal prosecutors acknowledging that a note found in a terrorist camp may have been mistranslated.
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A federal judge said that tribunals like the one the suspect is facing are contrary to principles of American justice.
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LOS ANGELES -- Prosecutors in Michael Jackson&#39;s child molestation case want to introduce evidence that the singer has committed other sex crimes over the years that went uncharged.