Ky. Court Overturns Sniper Conviction
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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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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., Feb. 22 -- A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 100 years in prison Thursday for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family last year.
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PINE BUSH, N.Y. - A teen-age Civil War buff has been suspended from school and faces serious charges after his replica musket was found in his car trunk at school in the Orange County community of Pine Bush...
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A state appeals court overturned the conviction of Martin H. Tankleff, who was imprisoned for the grisly murders of his parents in 1988.
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Kuwait's highest court of appeal overturned the conviction of a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner on Tuesday, acquitting him of terror-related charges, his lawyer said.
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An American soldier who shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi civilian to &quot;put him out of his misery&quot; was found guilty of murder yesterday.
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The Kentucky Supreme Court gave new life Thursday to a once-dismissed lawsuit claiming the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant devalued the land of surrounding property owners.
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An appeals court in Ohio is reported to have overturned the conviction and death sentence on a British man.
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A Marine reservist was found guilty Thursday of dereliction of duty and the abuse of prisoners last year at a makeshift detention camp in Iraq, but cleared of assaulting a 52-year-old Iraqi man who later died there.
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A U.S. Army medic who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tuesday, and could face as long as seven years in prison.
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Actor Wesley Snipes was found guilty today on three misdemeanor charges of failing to file tax returns -- but jurors cleared him of more serious felony charges of tax fraud and conspiracy. Snipes could be sentenced to up to three years in prison, but a lesser term is expected.
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A judge Monday rejected arguments from convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad that a second death-penalty prosecution in the 2002 killing spree would violate his constitutional protection against double jeopardy.
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights upheld a 20-year conviction imposed by a Peruvian judge on Lori Berenson, a New Yorker convicted on charges she helped rebels plot an attack on Congress.
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A Russian court convicted a Siberian  scientist of spying at a retrial on Friday, overturning his  earlier acquittal that had sparked the anger of the FSB state  security forces.
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A man whose convictions in two 1985 slayings were overturned has been released from prison after prosecutors decided against retrying him.
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A US army sniper is found guilty of murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian and planting a gun on him.
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Convicted teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo was sentenced Tuesday to two terms of life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder.