Perjury Trial Starts for Tainted Texas Drug Sting
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LUBBOCK, Texas  - Former undercover agent Tom  Coleman, once hailed as the Texas lawman of the year for a drug  sting in which nearly 10 percent of a small town's black  community were arrested, went on trial on Monday on perjury  charges for testimony he gave as that case collapsed.
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The trial of 21 medical workers allegedly linked to an HIV outbreak is under way in Kazakhstan.
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The federal grand jury investigating steroid use in sports today indicted a former cyclist, Tammy Thomas, for perjury and obstruction of justice, charging that she lied to another grand jury probing the Balco steroids case.
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A judge set a trial date Wednesday for a lawsuit against the University of Colorado that touched off a scandal in the football program over allegations that sex, drugs and alcohol were used to lure recruits.
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By Heather Smith  Defense arguments began Wednesday in France's first criminal trial against a company for an oil spill at sea - the 1999 Erika disaster - with lawyers for Total, the largest European oil refiner, telling the court that the public was looking for a "devil" to blame.
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The high-rolling gamblers have left town, but prosecutors say the stakes remain high in the federal trial that begins Tuesday of a man and woman accused of handling &#36;99 million in illegal wagers.
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By Anthony Spangler, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 5--A backlog in evidence-testing is creating delays throughout the criminal justice system, leaving prosecutors and local law enforcement authorities struggling to bring some cases to trial.
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The first trial for one of the several thousand lawsuits that Louisiana homeowners filed against their insurers in federal court after Hurricane Katrina gets under way this week.
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Jury selection began today in Fort Hood, Tex., in the military trial of the so-called ringleader of the prison scandal in Iraq.
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Texas researchers will begin clinical trials of a candidate vaccine against the deadly toxin ricin, a biological agent that can only be tested in select labs.
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The first criminal trial to involve former staff of disgraced energy firm Enron is under way in Texas, with two Enron staff and four bankers in the dock.
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A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the perjury trial of former vice presidential aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby and will decide whether to convict him of obstructing an investigation tied to the Iraq war.
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A Texas prosecutor is in the spotlight as he pursues a case with ties to one of the country's most powerful Republicans, Tom DeLay.
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The wife and father-in-law of Tommy Sheridan are expected to be charged with perjury, sources say.
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Opening arguments in the first criminal case against former Enron Corp. employees are set to begin after a federal court spent Monday whittling down a panel of Houston-area residents to find an impartial jury in the city still stinging from the company's downfall.
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A witness's testimony will prove that a former undercover agent who sent dozens of blacks to prison on bogus drug charges perjured himself, a prosecutor said in opening statements Tuesday.
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The first criminal trial against any former Enron Corp. employees is scheduled to begin today in Houston. The case is against two ex-Enron workers and four former Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.