Judge tosses 1 count in Jena race fight
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A judge threw out a teenager's conspiracy conviction in the alleged beating of a white student by a group of black schoolmates, but the teen's battery conviction still stands.
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The judge presiding over Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial refused on Wednesday to declare a mistrial in the case for one of the former media baron's three co-defendants.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 26 -- A judge's decision to keep a stymied jury deliberating for 12 hours just days before Christmas could be grounds to overturn a manslaughter verdict against a black man convicted of shooting a white teenager, criminal defense lawyers said Wednesday.
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A federal judge rejected arguments from the Bush administration Tuesday and ruled for Democrats in a dispute over how to count provisional ballots, a new voting requirement that could become the hanging chad of 2004.
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The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former White House budget director David A. Stockman yesterday rejected a bid to remove the lead prosecutor.
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A judge could order as early as Friday that the sole defendant who remains behind bars from the group of teens known as the "Jena 6" must be released.
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Rasmussen Reports - A Georgia state judge ruled that a new state law requiring voters to show photo ID is a violation of the state constitution (see story).
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A judge Tuesday tossed out a legal challenge aimed at blocking Nevada's five electoral votes from being cast next month for President Bush. In election challenges in two other states, a recount was sought and another was ended.
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Before a jury was even seated, a judge declared a mistrial Thursday in a sex-assault case where he had barred the words "rape" and "victim" among others.
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A judge said it would be wrong to suggest London Mayor Ken Livingstone was &quot;anti-Semitic&quot; at the start of a hearing into whether Livingstone's Nazi jibe to a Jewish journalist warranted a one-month suspension.
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A state commission rebuked a northern California judge Wednesday for telling potential jurors that they should think of a phony reason not to serve if they couldn't acknowledge they were racially biased.
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The district attorney handling the case of Mychal Bell, a black teenager accused of beating a white classmate in Jena, Louisiana, said Thursday that he would not challenge the decision to send the case to juvenile court.
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A judge refused Thursday to speed up the Republican challenge to the bitterly disputed Washington governor's election, handing a small victory to Democrats.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A state commission rebuked a northern California judge Wednesday for telling potential jurors that they should think of a phony reason not to serve if they couldn't acknowledge they were racially biased.    Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph O'Flaherty, in cases in 1999 and 2000 involving black and Iranian defendants, told prospective jurors they should come up with some other reason to get off the jury if they had racial biases and couldn't admit them...
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A judge's order requiring some provisional ballots in Michigan to be counted even if they are cast in the wrong precinct was put on hold Sunday, the second time in as many days that a federal appeals court dealt a setback to Democrats who wanted to ease voting restrictions.
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Showdown over judge who ruled for a white woman's use of a racial insult to a black colleague.
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A judge has dismissed an exonerated prisoner's claim that investigators and a prosecutor violated his civil rights by framing him in a murder for which he spent 17 years on death row.