Island trial hears first guilty plea
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The united front presented by the seven defendants in the Pitcairn child sex abuse trial has finally started to crumble, after Dennis Christian yesterday offered the first guilty pleas to the court on the semi-tropical island.
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SYDNEY - One of seven men facing trial for sex crimes against underage girls on the remote British territory of Pitcairn in the South Pacific has pleaded guilty to three charges of sexual assault, the Australian newspaper reported Tuesday.
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MADRID, Spain There&#39;s been a guilty plea in the first trial stemming from the Madrid train bombings earlier this year. A 16-year-old has pleaded guilty to charges he helped transport dynamite used in the attack.
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A second Pitcairn Islander, among seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing girls.
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A New Zealand man pleaded innocent Thursday to the first homicide in 150 years on Australia's remote Norfolk Island, home to some descendants of mutineers from the British ship Bounty.
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SYDNEY : Australia&#39;s first convicted terrorist, who confessed to conspiring with Al-Qaeda to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra, wants a deal in exchange for testifying against terror suspects in foreign courts.
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Taiwan's First Lady pleaded innocent to corruption charges as a trial that could eventually force President Chen Shui-bian from office got under way on Friday.
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Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of Computer Associates of Islandia, NY, pleaded innocent Thursday to charges he helped inflate financial results.
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NORFOLK ISLAND, Australia -- A jury of 12 Norfolk Islanders was sworn in Monday for the tiny South Pacific island's first murder trial since it was settled 151 years ago by descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers.
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Mark Thatcher pleaded guilty in a Cape Town court to charges of bankrolling an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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MADRID -- The first trial stemming from the Madrid terror bombing ended after only 25 minutes yesterday with a Spanish teenager pleading guilty to charges he helped transport dynamite used in the attack. The 16-year-old, who said he acted unknowingly, accepted the prosecutor's request for a six-year term in a juvenile detention center, followed by five years of probation. The ...
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Police are due to give evidence for the first time in the sex abuse trials on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. The court will be shown a police video interview with the mayor of the island, Steve Christian.
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Six of seven men on Pitcairn Island charged with sex crimes have been found guilty. Our correspondent in New Zealand, Gillian Bradford, says the island&#39;s mayor, Steve Christian, has been convicted of some of the most serious offences.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 9--Three more people, including a Gulfport man, have pleaded guilty to crimes involving hurricane-related fraud.
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A second man pleads guilty to sex offence charges against young girls on the Pacific island of Pitcairn.
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A man accused of murdering a Belfast solicitor in 1989 pleads guilty, as his trial is about to get under way in the city.
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The governmentâs criminal case against questionable tax shelters took a major step forward today when one defendant, David Amir Makov, an investment adviser, entered a guilty plea.