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A judge dismissed an indictment Friday against convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, ruling that the state waited too long to try him for capital murder in the death of an FBI analyst who was shot in a store parking lot.
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Citing "willful and deliberate  misconduct" by prosecutors, a federal judge on Thursday  dismissed the charges against a Chinese-American informant  accused of taking classified papers from her FBI agent lover.
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A judge on Thursday upheld an indictment against three U.S. soldiers in the death of a Spanish journalist in Iraq, rejecting an appeal filed by national prosecutors.
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A military judge on Friday rejected the Pentagon's request to reinstate previously dismissed charges against a prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2001, officials said.
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A military judge today dismissed charges against Canadian GuantÃ¡namo Bay detainee Omar Khadr, saying the matter is outside the jurisdiction of the new military tribunal system.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a murder conviction in the 1994 sniper death of a University of Kentucky athlete, saying the prosecutor committed a "flagrant" violation of the U.S. Constitution.
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A US military judge Monday rejected a defense motion to bar evidence gained from a key suspect&#39;s computer in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
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A Santa Clara County judge dismissed the remaining charges against three defendants in the Hewlett-Packard Co. boardroom spying case Thursday, calling their conduct a "betrayal of trust and honor" that nonetheless did not rise to the level of criminal activity.
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The judge in the Michael Jackson molestation case Thursday rejected a defense bid to throw out the indictment in a ruling that for the first time publicly detailed the conspiracy charge against the pop star.
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A U.S. judge dismissed criminal charges on Monday against 13 of 16 former employees of accounting firm KPMG in a tax-shelter case, saying prosecutors inappropriately interfered with their defense.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A military judge on Monday  rejected a motion to dismiss charges against the suspected  ringleader of abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison after lawyers  questioned whether he could get a fair trial.
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A federal judge on Thursday dismissed former CIA operative Valerie Plame's lawsuit against members of the Bush Administration in the CIA leak scandal
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A judge may throw out criminal  charges against a U.S. Marine accused of killing an Iraqi  prisoner in an American-run jail near Nasiriayah because of  problems with the evidence, a Marine Corps spokesman at Camp  Pendleton in California said on Friday.
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A military judge Thursday threw out a potentially damaging statement made by Pfc. Lynndie England, a U.S. soldier facing court martial over an Iraqi prison abuse scandal who was photographed holding a detainee on a leash
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A federal judge dismissed charges  against a New York record store owner on Friday who had been  selling unauthorized recordings of concerts, saying a law  against boot-legging was unconstitutional.
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For the second time, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a military contractor that whistleblowers accuse of scamming the U.S. government out of tens of millions of dollars in the first months of the Iraq war.
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A judge dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. Navy that was filed by the family of a Naval Academy student who died in a fall from his dormitory window.